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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 limitsstarrx3 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 limitsstarrx3 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 you drive the speed limit around here, you're basically road kill
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 limitsstarrx3 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 you drive the speed limit around here, you're basically road kill