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Old 02-21-2018, 12:46 AM   #4 (permalink)
Stubby79
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My Miata weighs nothing, has a tiny engine and "only" gets ~24mpg. That comes down to engine tune/design and transmission. It's simply not designed for mpgs.

Your Camry comes from the era of cars when they got overweight(for safety, size and features), but before they started making cars/transmissions/engines any more efficient. It's probably because they got so big and heavy that, after a while, forced the auto makers to start making them more efficient, because modern cars are both heavy and fuel efficient.

Driving something older and lighter or something newer and more efficient is my suggestion to your "problem".
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