My brother just bought this car:
The car's EPA ratings are:
- city: 10.7 L/100 km = 22 mpg
- highway: 8.7 L/100 km = 27 mpg
(Interestingly, the manual and automatic Xb have identical city/hwy ratings.)
Updating this thread for posterity: I took it out on the city coaching loop in pretty ideal conditions (warm weather, warmed-up drivetrain, light traffic).
Results: 6.4 L/100 km =
37 mpg US reported on the factory gauge.
Again, no especially fancy driving techniques: just avoiding rushing into avoidable stops/slowdowns, upshifting to top gear as soon as practical, neutral coasting and DFCO where appropriate. I shut the engine off at 2 long stop lights.
When
we took his 2005 Nissan X-trail through this same loop in 2014, I squeezed 31 mpg from it with similar (normal) ecodriving techniques. (34 MPG when repeated with some engine-off coasting.)