Hi, all I just got my wife a 15 es mirage auto. I have liked them since they came out I wanted a manual, but my 02 accent is still kicken and it gets 38 in town so no complaining. I have always been a ford festiva guy, was a member on there site, and love festivas I always got above 40mpg in mine. but they are getting so old and my wife would never drive one . I even had a 1.6t festiva with a mazda gtx engine in it... now that was a sleeper. Anyways. I love the mirage also we are already over 9k + on it. we drove to cape cod mass and back from New mexico that is why the miles are so high.
going 65 I would get 44 mpg... 70 mpg 41 and 75 mpg 40 when I was in the pa mountians I would get about 38 mpg with different speeds.
Only issues I have so far is it makes a weird burning smells. when I am driving sometimes, maybe like burning plastic? I tried to replicate it by driving and doing different things on our long trip but I couldn't. It was always random. It did seem to only happen while driving in hills and mountains? I still like it a lot so does my wife. Hopefully it is as good and reliable as my old festiva!