Wednesday, February 07, 2024
Best gas mileage cars
If you're looking for the cars with the best gas mileage, your best bets are hybrids and EVs, and with the latter, then it's a case of energy efficiency considering the lack of gasoline. But maybe you don't like the idea of an electrified vehicle. Maybe you're concerned about more complicated powertrains or new technologies. Maybe you're put off by the extra up-front cost of those vehicles. So what's the best way to get good fuel economy, without batteries? Well, we've pulled together the 10 most fuel-efficient cars that only run on gasoline.
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I get 34 and change miles per gallon in my 2015 Subaru Outback. It's not what you drive, it's how you drive it.
ReplyDeleteYes it does matter what you drive. I've got a Chevy pickup that gets 18mpg and my wife's Nissan gets 24. I drive like an old lady and she drives like she's on a NASCAR track.
DeleteId rather get 1 mpg than drive a fuckin lesbaru.
DeleteFuel efficiency is but one factor in the economics of owning a car. There's the initial purchase price; the reliability and cost to repair the car, the insurance cost, your expected yearly mileage, etc. These can be compared between vehicles by a little mathematics to show which is the least costly to own. Also, there are the subjective costs; for example how much extra will you be willing to spend to get a car with a good ride and good handling properties? Even though we moan about $3 gas, the gas in the US is cheap compared to Europe or anywhere else in the world (except maybe Saudi Arabia). And, I don't think the readers of this blog are overly concerned about the bogus climate change allegedly caused by CO2 emissions. Modern cars pollute very little. I remember the cars of the 1960s in New York City, where the air was unbreatheable because of incomplete combustion (not properly tuned) and no catalytic converters.
ReplyDeleteFor me one of the biggest considerations is clearance, we get drifts and rear wheel drive vehicles with low clearance get stuck.
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2014 Chevy Cruze Diesel. Seeing ads for $9000 to $14000, depending on miles (100k & 46K).
ReplyDeleteRunning around 44 hwy right now in colder weather. Around 51 mph in warmer weather.
Just shy of 270k right now.
Put on 650 miles/week going to/from work. Mileage is important to me.
Great car for me.
I feel your pain Wisco. I was in the 650 miles a week commuting to work back in the 1980s. (not my choice since the company said commute or lose the job you've had for 20 years) I had a 1982 Toyota Tercel with manual transmission. Gas was about half then, but so was my salary.
DeleteNo thanks Yahoo, I don't want any of those cars.
ReplyDeleteI'm shopping for an old Mercedes diesel. I can get a great one for $10k CDN ($7,300USD) and the $20k saving will buy lots of fuel. The best part is the only thing I can't fix is the radio which is easy and cheap to replace.
Al_in_Ottawa
My brother had one of those as a commuter car. He converted it to burn used cooking oil. Smelled like French fries and steak wherever he drove it.
DeleteThat was an idea I was never a fan of. Diesel (very similar to fuel oil #2) has lubricating qualities that injectors and injection systems depend on to operate properly, and they are both components of diesel engines that are very expensive to replace. I would prefer to treat them right.
DeleteChange my mind.
I work out of my 2020 Quigley Chevrolet, If I drive easy on our pot hole filled country roads I’ll get about 15 mpg. And I only use non-ethanol gas, yesterday it was $3.79 a gallon. I never use any ethanol fuels unless absolutely no choice. This is bullshit what’s happening in Our Republic.
ReplyDeleteMy '71 K20 Suburban got 8-9 MPG around town, +/- 13 MPG on the highway.
DeleteFuel capacity 52 gallons w/ two saddle tanks. This would get me from L.A. to Flagstaff with a gallon or two to spare. Filling 3 tanks was somewhat of a PITA and required some finesse.
In 2011 I got a VW Vanagon Syncro equipped w/ AWD, locker transaxle, 4-speed manual + granny gear and a Subaru E22 motor. Has A/C and full-size bed in the rear.
This van gets 15-16 MPG in town and 23-24 on extended road trips.
70 miles a day, 66 are wide open on the tollway. 5 year old Kona 110,000 miles with 2 liter engine (should have paid extra for the turbo) and I get 36 mpg. I have tracked very mile and drop of gas. Odd that the cars odometer is exactly 10% HIGHER than me doing the math.........
ReplyDeleteI commuted 80 to 100 miles round trip per day for most of my 39 year working life. Even the small sports cars or just small cars, like a Honda Civic 4-door, that I drove, didn't get much better than 20 or 25. Then I got into small SUV's like S-Jimmy or S-Blazer with the 4.3. Still got around twenty. Now in retirement, I'm driving a 2002 Durango which gets 14.5 or so in local small city driving. I didn't care then because gas was cheap and I wasn't focused on economy. Now I don't care because I don't drive much.
ReplyDeleteI drive a 18 year old car with only 92k on the odometer, it gets 20 mpg, and I only drive 2k a year. Screw these $50k plus junk !
ReplyDeleteIn 1981 I bought a brand new VW Rabbit pickup with a diesel and a 5 speed. Freeway diving on a trip it could get 50 mpg without breaking a sweat. With diesel being cheap back then it meant the cost to operate it amounted to pennies per mile.
ReplyDeleteIt was a great little rig that I should have taken good care of and hung on to. But such is life.
2014 VW Passat TDI, just turned 76K miles. 37-40 mpg on average. Company pays $60/month towards commuting so it only costs me about $50/month out of my pocket for fuel. Had it 4 years and don't have any plans on replacing it. New cars are just too expensive and I don't want or need all of the ridiculous stuff that's on them any more.
ReplyDeleteI'm rebuilding a 1985 K-5 Blazer with a 350, if it gets into the double digits (10) I'll be thrilled.
ReplyDeleteput in a higher geared rear end and you'll get better mileage.
DeleteHad an '86 with 35s, 4 inch lift and a 305 that got 16 mpg even when it made a bad noise and wouldn't idle for shit way in the mountains of Idaho and I found three piston skirts in the oil pan.
DeleteThe crate 350 got 13, with the same SM465. Manual is the way to go.
My '89 Dodge W150 4x4 318/5.2L with EFI gets 14 around town, about 19 highway. Stock size mud/snow tires.
DeleteIt's about cost per mile to operate and sorry, but once you replace a battery EV's come out dead last by a longshot. Prove me wrong. And that is all of the misguided emissions righteousness bs set aside.
ReplyDeleteyou didn't read the article... ev's were not the subject.
Delete2022 Mirage hatchback. No acceleration, mucho road noise, but it stays in eco mode up to about 77 mph on the flat. If I stay at 65, it might average 40 or so on a long trip. At 75, about 36. Much better than my 2500 long bed which averages about 14 highway.
ReplyDeleteWell.... Owning a hemi as I do, I'm grateful to see double digits on a regular basis. But then, it's a one-ton pickup truck, 4WD. I loaned it to my S.i.L. this week for a long trip and was flabbergasted when I got it back, because it showed an average mileage over 15 ! He must have been driving like a church lady - in church.
ReplyDelete'06 Acura TSX 6-sp manual, about 200HP. Fun car, 30mpg combined. Shod with Nokian WRG4 All-weather tires which have best free rolling capability of any tires I've had. I did start adding MoS2 to my 5W30 engine oil some time back.
ReplyDeleteI got a 1960 Tbird with a slightly updated 352, NO emmisions crap.
ReplyDeleteI get about 10-12 Smiles per gallon cuz it looks way better and sounds more gooder than any eco-box or sedan-ish blobs with no style!
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
ReplyDeleteHi Kenny,
ReplyDeleteBack when!!... late 60's... that's "1960's" I had a couple of VW's... a 59' "Ghia" That did the best and it was a dog... 27-30+ mpg.. a '66 "Bug!!" 25+mpg and a '65 Van .. it was a Dog too and because of the gear ratio it was lousy on mpg but it could haul a load!!!! They were easy to work on, parts were reasonable and with the help of John Muir and his note book wire bound cartoon laden book,"How to keep your Volkswagen alive for the complete Idiot!!" Myself and a lot of other people were "On the ROAD!!!!" I still have my "Idiot's Manual" .. all grease and oil stained in my archive!!!!!!!
Blue skyz brother!!!!!,
skybill
I rebuilt a VW bus engine using that book.
DeleteWingless
PS... Back when again "EARLY 60's " ya' could drive a VW Bug off the show room floor...$1995.00.... NOT!!!!!!!!! $19,995.00 now all you gen XYZ go cry in your Fentanal cocktail.......
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