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Originally Posted by new2the3
How are the majority of you getting so many miles? I'm averaging about 220-250 miles driven per tank and that's with 80% highway driving. This car eats gas. After a fill up my range is usually showing 280-295 miles. I do not drive that hard since I'm usually driving with wife and kids.
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The added weight of your family plus gear will have some impact on your mileage -- it's only me in mine usually. I expect my mileage to improve more as I have only 2000 km (1200 miles) on my clock so far. Internet says every 100 lbs could decrease mileage up to 2% so assuming your family is adding 200 lbs that could account for about 12 miles less.
Do you have a lot of hills after the highway part? Also I think higher elevations will lower fuel consumption so maybe location is contributing to some people's better numbers.
I've seen as low as about 17 mpg with more highway driving, not as good as some people but about the same as I was getting in my 1M so I'm pretty pleased so far.