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Green Car Reports is not a fan of "extreme" hypermiling contests that car companies put on to highlight the incredible results their cars can get under ideal conditions, using driving techniques that the vast majority of the motoring public will never use.

I noticed that they didn't cover Mitsubishi's latest U.S. economy run contest, where a trio of Mirages went from Las Vegas to L.A. and averaged 70 mpg US (3.4 L/100 km / 29.8 km/L) between them, with the top car getting over 74 mpg (US).

So I wrote to them and pointed out that while the "real world" results of thirty Mirage owners recording their results in our fuel economy log isn't as spectacular as 70+ mpg, it's still notable because our "fleet average" is higher (slightly) than the EPA's best combined fuel economy rating for the car.

To me, that says Mitsu isn't fudging the numbers for this car, like some other companies do.

So GCR wrote an article about it. They also referred to the CVT vs 5-speed Mirage city fuel economy comparison I did in Ottawa, where I used "plain vanilla ecodriving" and got much better results than the cars' EPA city ratings, in less than ideal conditions.

GCR says...

We don't advocate hardcore hypermiling here, nor taping up important bits of your car, but it's evidence of just how efficient Mitsubishi's latest minicar can be.

With little technique, EPA-beating economy figures appear to be very much within reach.
Read the full article: http://www.greencarreports.com/news/...ble-owners-say