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Consumer Reports is crazy. In order to get a combined 18 you would have to have 90% City 10% Highway. I am getting overall since buying our Path between 21 and 22 mpg and that is over 1700 miles. I would have to say the 1700 are split almost 50-50 between City and Highway.smj999smj wrote:Consumer Reports is showing a combined 18 mpg for the new Pathy. I get 17.5 mpg on my 2006 LE AWD, combined. Looks like the big advantage for the R52 is on long, highway runs. My R51 gets 20-21.5 mpg on the long, highway run. Seems the R52's are getting from 22 up to 27 mpg on the long runs.
Plus I bet Consumer Reports is based on the 55 or 65mph speed limit If you drive the speed limit around here, you're basically road killsstarrx3 wrote:Consumer Reports is crazy. In order to get a combined 18 you would have to have 90% City 10% Highway. I am getting overall since buying our Path between 21 and 22 mpg and that is over 1700 miles. I would have to say the 1700 are split almost 50-50 between City and Highway.smj999smj wrote:Consumer Reports is showing a combined 18 mpg for the new Pathy. I get 17.5 mpg on my 2006 LE AWD, combined. Looks like the big advantage for the R52 is on long, highway runs. My R51 gets 20-21.5 mpg on the long, highway run. Seems the R52's are getting from 22 up to 27 mpg on the long runs.
If that were the case I would expect much better than 18. More like the opposite. If they got 18 and it wasn't 90% city, then they must be going 85-90 on the highway!FLiPMaRC wrote:Plus I bet Consumer Reports is based on the 55 or 65mph speed limit If you drive the speed limit around here, you're basically road killsstarrx3 wrote:Consumer Reports is crazy. In order to get a combined 18 you would have to have 90% City 10% Highway. I am getting overall since buying our Path between 21 and 22 mpg and that is over 1700 miles. I would have to say the 1700 are split almost 50-50 between City and Highway.smj999smj wrote:Consumer Reports is showing a combined 18 mpg for the new Pathy. I get 17.5 mpg on my 2006 LE AWD, combined. Looks like the big advantage for the R52 is on long, highway runs. My R51 gets 20-21.5 mpg on the long, highway run. Seems the R52's are getting from 22 up to 27 mpg on the long runs.
If that were the case I would expect much better than 18. More like the opposite. If they got 18 and it wasn't 90% city, then they must be going 85-90 on the highway!FLiPMaRC wrote:Plus I bet Consumer Reports is based on the 55 or 65mph speed limit If you drive the speed limit around here, you're basically road killsstarrx3 wrote:Consumer Reports is crazy. In order to get a combined 18 you would have to have 90% City 10% Highway. I am getting overall since buying our Path between 21 and 22 mpg and that is over 1700 miles. I would have to say the 1700 are split almost 50-50 between City and Highway.smj999smj wrote:Consumer Reports is showing a combined 18 mpg for the new Pathy. I get 17.5 mpg on my 2006 LE AWD, combined. Looks like the big advantage for the R52 is on long, highway runs. My R51 gets 20-21.5 mpg on the long, highway run. Seems the R52's are getting from 22 up to 27 mpg on the long runs.