What MPG do you think is a good gas milage for a vehicle?

Question

What MPG is one that is decent nowadays

Answer 1

30 MPG is good, I get about 17-20.

Answer 2

My car gets 18 mpg, and that's fine for me.

Answer 3

fuel mileage is relative to your cargo. If you own a bus and your driving yourself to work at 7MPG then ???? If however your taking 40 people to work then!!!

Answer 4

I get 50 mpg out of my (diesel) Jetta.

Answer 5

I think 1,879 would be very good.

Answer 6

28 MPG is pretty average for many cars on the road.

Anything higher is good gas milage.

34 mpg and higher is great.

40+ mpg is amazing gas milage.  Those cars are rarely at a gas station.

Answer 7

^As to the person confused why fuel economy is going down.

Well the combustion engine is very old. It reached it's efficiency limit years ago. There are ways to make them more efficient (hybrid, direct injection, cylinder deactivation) but those things either don't do very much, or cost a lot. So there isn't much room for improvement, and on top of that cars are always getting bigger. A honda civic is larger than an Accord was a few years ago. The 2008 Accord is bigger than the 2007.

But anyways... Good MPG depends on the vehicle. The new Tahoe can get 20 MPG. That's actually very good considering similar vehicles such as the Toyota Sequoia and Ford Expedition have trouble getting over 15 in real life. Now 20 MPG on something like a compact sedan however would be considered horrible.

Answer 8

30/30

Answer 9

Anything better than 15mpg

Answer 10

750 miles per gallon.

I have an Electric Bicycle, and that's what you would have to get with gasoline/petrol, to save more money than I do.

Answer 11

This totally depends on what the vehicle is, and is used for.  Since we live on a farm, and are quiet rural, plus live in an area with brutal winters, we have larger, more powerful vehicles for doing the things we require (like hauling 10 tons of hay at a whack).

If I were your average little Mrs. Suburban Housewife, and I were buying a brand new vehicle,  I would expect a family 4 door sedan (not SUV) to get no less than 50MPG, and 60MPG would be a whole lot better.

This is based on the fact that my 1992 four door Merc Sable gets 36MPG.   In the 15 years that have passed since my car was manufactured I feel it is 100% reasonable to expect gas millage to have gone up 10-20MPG.

However it has not.  In fact I often see vehicles advertised that are fuel efficient that are only getting in the 20's.  Why on earth has millage gone BACKWARDS?

By the way, that 1992 vehicle is one of our newest.  Our trucks drop off in age very rapidly, being 25-40+ years old.  Of course the trucks get 29MPG for a 1/2 ton, and 16 MPG for the one ton.  They were made in America, by American workers, with American steel....they are nearly indestructable.  

Since modern trucks get no better millage, cannot run on biofuels, need specialized computers to fix them, are not NEARLY so rugged, often not made in America, and the price of them is simply outrageous, we see zero value in updating our vehicles.

They will need to build something BETTER first...this has not been done.

So instead of being the consumers buying new vehicles made of plastic and computer parts, we will continue to drive and restore old trucks....they are actually very earth friendly.

I'd talk about our 50+ year old John Deere tractors that can run on ANYTHING you put into them, gas, desiel, kerosine, alchohol, biofuels, ect vs. modern tractors which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and are driving farmers into debt and financial ruin right and left...but I don't figure many of you would understand, nor care.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 12

My older sister had a Honda that got 60mpg.  It was a small 4 cylinder, but I guess they don't make them anymore.  

Hybrids can't even beat that and they cost 10 times as much.

Answer 13

Personally I think 50 mpg is good.  35 mpg is decent.