Article: "2015 Subaru BRZ offers huge surprise in mpg marathon"
 

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If you drive a sporty car at moderate speeds at low RPM in top gear you can get decent fuel economy!

Who'd a thunk it?

(Or maybe they pulse & glided the **** out of it. Who knows?)

2015 Subaru BRZ offers huge surprise in mpg marathon - Torque News

The BRZ is rated 36.2 mpg (Imperial) on the Euro cycle, which is 30 mpg US / 7.9 L/100 km.

The drivers squeezed out 55.42 mpg (Imp) = 46.1 mpg US = 5.1 L/100 km. Good enough for 2nd place overall in the "% over official rating" category:

Of course, the top 3 MPG numbers were in cars we don't get on this side of the ditch:

• Honda Civic Tourer 1.6 I"DTEC Man = 97.9 MPG (Imp)
• Ford Fiesta 1.6TDCi Titanium Econetic = 97.1 MPG
• Citroen C4 Cactus - Blue Hdi 100 Feel = 95 MPG

All subcompact diesels, of course!

Curses on the EPA. Curses I say...

Having his cake and eating it too!

I should enter my WRX STI in one of these things.

i'm already achieving 52.5% real-world improvement over EPA estimates.

Cruising at Moderate speed, top gear, low rpm in the STI...my scangauge II shows ~40-45mpg which is 71% improvement over EPA

lol 45 is not even good. That's the cruise mpg in 6th gear at 55mph.

I can't get 45 mpg doing 40 mph in 6th with my 2.4L TSX. It just doesn't like to get great fuel economy.

I sense competition is coming. ..

I was only able to average 27 MPG in my Forester, although I once got that driving up hill to my parents' house, and then 40 MPG driving downhill over 165 miles. However, that project went the way of Zerohour's (http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...-5l-14034.html). He replaced it with a Mini Cooper and disappeared, but he had some very good skills.

45 mpg vs. 27 mpg average in the "real world" (842 owners)
 

Let's put this BRZ's 45 mpg US results in context:

- 437 FRS owners are averaging ~27 mpg US, says Fuelly.
- 405 BRZ owners are averaging about the same (slightly higher).

Crash and burn, another potential new car crossed off my list. In that case I just as well get an older Scion TC thats been boosted and riced out. :eek:

The BRZ was the car that crossed my mind when I was looking for a car, but as it's not sold here, I went for the new Fiesta ST.

I recall someone jacked a TSX up and ran it with zero load on the wheels in 6th gear and the computer only registered 45mpg (although this was at 3000rpm). That's kind of depressing.

The FA20's 12.5 compression ratio and D4-S injection really help. I think most people on this website would be able to pull off 40mpg tanks or at least 35 with a lot of city driving in that car.

Consumer Reports did a little better (30 MPG) in their testing:
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2...nomy/index.htm
I'd like to hypermile one on the way to the racetrack. :D

thread res, no evidence of what they did to achieve this.

Drove slow.

AC off, restricted to 50 mph or less, I don't doubt it's possible.

When I drove a friend's FR-S, I was surprised by its mileage, 37 mpg(car computer) in a mostly city route. I was also surprised by the rather large gap between 1st and 2nd gear in a 6 speed.

Crap man, even my accord v6 can do that, and on regular gas to boot. I think...Can't really know for sure without a flat road around here.

my real world BRZ results so far
 

Cruise MPG Notes
Control Readout
Speed


31 38.8 3 miles
38
39 46.4 very short distance
40
42
43 47.3 2 miles
44 41.3 3 miles
44 44.5 3 miles
46
45 46.9 3 miles
48
49 42.8 5 miles
50
52 44 6 miles
54 43.3 20 miles
56 40.6 30 miles
57 43.4 30 miles
58 36.7 5 miles
58 40.8 8 miles
59 39.3 28 miles
60 38.3 30 miles
60 40.6 25 miles
61 40 20 miles
62 39.8 20 miles
63 38.5 5 miles
63 39.4 20 miles
64 39.7 20 miles
65 38.7 28 miles
66 37.4 20 miles
66 38.6 20 miles
66 38.1 20
67 38.1 20
68
69 35.3 20 miles