Took a year and a half since owning the car...that and a calm sunday morning
Went to the store this morning about ten miles from my home and traffic was pretty much non existent.
I always wanted to confirm that the display only reads up to 99.9 MPGs and then it goes to dashes. It does!
Of course this took super aggressive hypermiling. Average speed maybe high twenties (MPH).
At one point I had to speed up because a vehicle turned behind me but luckily it was in a 40MPH zone a mile from a stop sign so not much damage.
Basic driving technique was pulse and glide between about 40-20 MPH with EOC.
Got her up to the 90's in a few miles,then on the way back the display started switching between high nineties and DASHES!
by the last few miles of the trip it never even came off of dashes so it stayed in the 100+ MPG territory.
Settling nicely on this once I got home:
Nice to know if it was an MPG rally the Mirage could deliver some numbers that put my 50cc 4 stroke scooter to shame
That and also I always wondered if it is still possible regardless of driving style because if you coast down to too low of a speed there is a point when you start hurting MPGs due to having to accelerate from a very low speed/ wasting fuel on taking too long to get up to speed etc.
So while this is far from real world driving I'm still happy to know it is POSSIBLE to crack 100 MPG in a 5 passenger car!