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Is 24 mpg average (combined hwy & city) normal for a 2011 Elantra automatic w/ 650 miles on the car?
Hyundai customer service said there's a breakin time of 7,500 miles before it gets the published 29 city and 40 hwy milage. That doesn't sound right to me. Why should the milage differ that much???? I appreciate your input very much. Maybe I should have purchased a diesel Jetta!
To clarify my driving habits, it's about 2/3 city & 1/3 hwy. I don't have a lead foot & drive the speed limit. No jack rabbit starts & slow down early when going to stop lites, etc. But, according to the sticker on the car I should be getting 29mpg in the city. I would think my combined driving would be at least 30mpg.
UPDATE: I talked w/ a Hyundai Service Mgr. & he told me that the milage listed in the window should be about 15% lower. The conditions they drive in are "perfect" & we're not driving in a perfect world! So, if I can get 29 mpg I will be doing GREAT! My 1971 Datsun averaged 35mpg & I got 42mpg on a trip between LA & San Francisco once. The 42mpg was because I did something against the law & turned the car off going down hills in the mountains w/o any other cars around!
Wish I still had that car. It was the best.
5 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Cold weather and traffic control, (time waiting for red lights), hilly driving all contribute.
My 07 Sonata is estimated at 32 hwy. It gets 34/35 hwy with A/C on and 37 w/o. 23 city with traffic light adjustments to prevent unnecessary stops.
- 1 decade ago
There is no way to guess what kind of mileage any individual driver will get. You say you are a conservative driver and I have no reason to doubt that. Give the car a chance to get broken in though before you get excited about your mileage. Modern cars take several thousend miles to get broken in, so be a little more patient. My wife has a 2011 Sonata and is on her 3rd tank of gas, the mileage gets better with each tank.
- 1 decade ago
While yours is a good question you leave out important statistics such as how much city vs highway driving you do, also how heavy is your foot. If you are doing more start/stop than open highway driving you will not recognize the full claimed MPG. Hope this helps.
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- Really ?Lv 71 decade ago
Stop and go, city and hy. driving.... so what is the problem? Sound good to me for your kind of driving..
