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Originally Posted by
Top_Fuel
Interesting that you would bump this thread now.
A local gas station opened up about 6 months ago and started selling 100% gasoline. I haven't seen "real" gas for over 10 years! All gasoline in this area is E10 (10% alcohol/90% gasoline).
For the last few tanks I have been running 100% gasoline in my Mirage as a test to see if I notice any MPG difference. So far it looks like 100% gasoline is good for close to a 5% increase in fuel economy over E10. The testing continues and I will write something up once I have enough data. If this is the case, the MPG hit you would take by running E85 in a Mirage would be significant.
Makes sense, since ethanol has less energy than gasoline.
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View my fuel log 2018 Mirage SE 1.2 automatic: 33.6 mpg (US) ... 14.3 km/L ... 7.0 L/100 km ... 40.4 mpg (Imp)