A brand new car will ALWAYS have lower numbers. Give it a few thousand miles for breaking in, and it should go up. I can't promise it will go up MUCH, but maybe a MPG or two. It seems like the mileage in the Outlander Sport is heavily dependent on the driver and their tendencies. If you want good mileage, you really have to drive efficiently.

 

Drove mine last Sunday from Orange county to San Diego Calif and i averaged at 28.5 mpg. My dash said 24.7mpg average but i calculated it manually and came up to 28.5mpg. Not bad and i have 2700miles in my Outie. I drove for max speed at 75 - 77mph and used cruise control most of the time and sometime turned on the AC as well. This is so far the farthest trip I have in my Outie and I'm loving it!

 

This is the exact same problem I have - my dashboard dummy bucket says I get 22-25mpg all the time but every time I bust out a calculator I'm right on the edge of 30

 

How many miles do you have on it? has suggested in the past that it can take up to 5k miles to break in an engine for true mpg

 

Mine?? I have 42k miles on mine lol

 

650 miles on mine


when you guys fill up, what does it show for how many miles left on tank?
mine shows 320? thats 20mpg? Something has to be wrong. I understand MPG is how you drive, but i drove those two tanks the best anyone could to see what best mpg i could get, and thats 21? ODD if you ask me

 

Mine shows around 340 when filled up. And then when you start driving, that value will change. i drove from OC to LA in a 40 mins drive last month and it shows 400 and even went to 410 for the mileage left in my tank. Im driving 70mpg in a cruise control with 4 adult passengers.

 

Oops, quoted the wrong person :0

 

I figured lol


mitsu13, if you're going by the dashboard you're wasting yours (and our) time. The display is NOT accurate. Mine has told me I averaged 39 MPG for a 25 mile trip....

 

I am not going by that to calculate my MPG on those two tanks. Manually doing the math- that was just a second question just out there.

 

OK, good lol

 

If you're just looking at the MPG display when it's in Automatic Mode (which is the default setting and nearly impossible to change) it resets itself to zero every time the car is turned off for more than 4 hours. That will not agree to what you calculate when you fill your tank because then you're calculating the average for the entire tank, not just a trip by trip basis.

I have found that when I reset the Manual calculation mode when I fill the tank, that comes very close to what the manual tank calculation comes out to.

In my total of 3 fillups, it's been about 27 MPG each time, so I'm very happy with that since I'm mixed hwy/city.

 

I'm now at 2200+ miles and still haven't gotten a manual calculation of anything higher than 24/25 mpg.

I also drive a mixture of highway/city, but a majority more highway. Just doesn't make sense to me. I always have my eco light going and typically don't hit above 70 while on the highway.

 

The MPG degrades rapidly over 60, so given that your 24-25 is not THAT far off.

 

And again, the EPA estimated these. They do it in a building on a dyno like device.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-e...explained1.htm