15 .5 miles per gallon anyone?

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Mar 4, 2004 | 06:10 PM

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NismoKid

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I've been averaging 21 mpg since I've had my car according to the digital screen(3,600 hwy miles mostly). Under hard driving, I see the needle for the gas level drop rather quickly. 15.5 mpg seems about right if you do heavy acceleration a lot of the time with frequent stopping.

Mar 26, 2004 | 11:47 PM

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cwerdna

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Originally posted by xswl0931
Remember that mileage estimates are not made by Nissan, they are made by the EPA (Environment Protection Agency) which are usually on the high side as they don't accurately reflect how people really drive.

Actually, from http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/info.shtml#estimates "Manufacturers test pre-production prototypes of the new vehicle models and submit the test results to EPA. EPA re-tests about 10% of vehicle models to confirm manufacturer's results..."

The results to me are kinda BS because if you read through it, they do it on a dyno, not on a real road and then they fudge the #s downwards. See the above URL for more details.