Sunday- had this thing almost a week now. No bad to report. The AC thing I'll fess up as an "I'm an idiot." I know something is different about it, but I'm not sure exactly what. I'm not sure what happened, but I've kind of got it down now. Not sure how to explain it. There was no Aha moment. I just kind of subconsciously get it to the temp/air speed I want.
Filled up before my trip. I noticed I don't have time to finish cleaning my windows before the pump is done. Actually, the first time I filled it, it was raining- so I just sat in my car. I'd barely sat down and the pump went off. That was kind of nice. On this fill up, 220.2 miles. 5.908 gallons. MPG 37.27- My other car would have been $32.11 to fill, so a savings of $14.86. I've noticed the MPG gauge is about a mile and a half over what I actually get.
On my trip up there, I kept it mostly under 75. I passed exactly one 4 wheeler. That's a car w/ no trailer, and no trucks. The MPG gauge is what I had on my screen for the trip. I was getting 40+ even at some pretty solid speeds. I noticed it went up the last 30 miles of my trip. That's when I got off the highway, and went on to a road w/ a 55MPH speed limit. There's a few lights, but not many. My route is the main road for most of this section, and don't really hit too many lights. If I do, they aren't red for long. The MPG gauge got as high as 48 on this stretch of road coming back. Then back on the highway coming home it went down some.
When I pulled in to fill up, the gauge said 44.1- When I filled up, I got 42.76- I'll take it.
What slayed me, in a good way- was the last 70 miles of the trip. I know something isn't accurate- but I got 75.6MPG in actual fill up. The last fill up I got off the highway to avoid construction on Southbound I-75. This takes ya on a road similar to the last 30 miles of the trip heading up there. My MPG gauge was reading north of 50. I think it got as high as 54. I got a pic of 51.6- Anyway, I wanted to see if I could get 50MPG for real, as up to now the gauge has shown me about 1.5 miles more than I actually get.
I knew it would be a super small sample of miles- about 70- but dangit, I wanted to get the 50MPG for real. I got more than I hoped for.
The math comes out to 69.7 miles, .922 gallons, 75.6MPG. I topped it off. I usually top my vehicles off w/ 4 squeezes after the pump clanks/stops pumping. I did 4 and I still didn't have a gallon in there. I was thinking that this can't be right. So I did 6 this time. I still didn't have a gallon in there. I was going to go for more, but I didn't want fuel on my new car. I know on my HHR, when I got a high or low MPG for a fill up, the next one kind of evened it out. So I'm guessing the same thing happened here. The full trip was 413.8 miles, 8.968 gallons- 46.14 MPG
Some things I noticed- If you keep it under 70, you're going to get some great MPG. I get that's a no chyt Sherlock type comment, but the MPG gauge kind of shows ya where your prime MPG ranges are. I drive 60 in the construction zones anyway, so that helps. Being behind trucks (not super driving or anything- just regular travel) helps quite a bit. It was interesting to see the MPG gauge at different driving situations.
Not counting trucks or vehicles w/ trailers, I passed exactly 1 each way. Other than that I was the slowest person on the highway. I'll have to run some numbers to see about time vs MPG. I'm not going to lose 30 minutes to save 1MPG (though I might one time if that 1 MPG is the difference between 49 and 50), but if going 70 gets me 5 more MPG than 75, count me in.
I also wanted to note the comfort was fine. I loved it when I first sat in it before I bought it. Liked it a lot for a few days until I got up to around 100 miles in it for that day. Then it got uncomfy for some reason. I took my Purple Pillow on this trip, but I ended up not needing it. As of now, the comfort is pretty good all day long. No real reason as to why, except maybe my back is getting used to it.
The fuel savings over my Fusion was over $50, and I haven't had it a full week yet. Before I bought it, I was thinking it would be closer to $75/week, but two things I mis-calculated was that I'd get 40MPG in city (I'm in the high 30s) and was figuring the 400 mile trip was at 20MPG in my Fusion. The Fusion got 27 on the highway, at much higher speeds. So it's not a total apples to apples MPG $$ savings on the highway driving part of it. Still, I'm pretty happy at not putting an extra $200/month in the fuel tank.
I also think my MPG will go up a bit because I'm driving it better. I already have almost 1,000 miles on it. I'm getting a seat belt extender for the chimes. Not having to wait to come to a complete stop 40 times a day means a couple of seconds each stop of it not sitting there idling. That will add up over time.