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Originally Posted by jazclrint
I took a spin in my wife's hybrid this afternoon. City and highway. Sure enough in my Caddy when I'm going under 45-50mph the instantaneous fuel economy gauge is reading in the low to mid 30's mpg. My Torque Pro app however was saying high 20's to low 30's. Still, that's the truck's sweet spot. But I'm not getting much over 20mpg on the interstate.
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The on board guessometer is exactly that. The reality is these vehicles are full size, body on frame, pushrod V8, in my case 4wd, trucks.
Averaging 20mpg is pretty good for the technology from 15 years ago. The comparable denali/escalade with the 6.2l would be lucky to average 15mpg.
15 to 20 is a 33% reduction in fuel consumption.