so i finally filled up today after work. Heres a picture of just before i filled up, and a snapshot of my fuelly when i filled up.
so i finally filled up today after work. Heres a picture of just before i filled up, and a snapshot of my fuelly when i filled up.
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10L left in the tank with gas light on seems accurate. Looks like you are getting Mazda's claimed mileage, which I assume is with all hwy driving. I'm curious to see SKY mileage figures when driven in the GTA area with heavy traffic. Judging from your Fuelly logs, you are doing 6 fills per month; 2 more than me. I bet you are changing your oil more frequently as well. My 2.0L MZR is still cheaper in comparison!
Glad to see that SKY is living up to its claims.
haha thanks man! ive only ever got 47mpg twice, including this time, but overall, still great on gas, and yeah ive already had two oil changes haha, next one at 24k.
(why am i still awake! went tot he casino last night for the first time, ****ING RAD time there haha)
47mpg is ****ing nuts.
2007 Mazdaspeed3
drive slow homie...
Two trips to Alliston this week netted me 600km/tank for the first time.
Was your car weighed down with stuff? And have the AC on? I almost never have the AC on in my car.
Thats awesome for all that city ^ what's the TII gettin? Haha or do you prefer not to check? My aunt has a GSL-SE I wanna take of her hands maybe in a year or two
Let's just say my dad's pickup gets better.
haha ouch. Is it stock? or is it ported? single? are you on the club?
Resurrecting the thread...
We have two 2.0L MZRs, one is 2008.5 auto, the other is 2012 stick.
Although the auto one is only the 4-speed variety, I can confirm it turns much slower in highway cruising. It can go more than 100 before it touches the 2k range.
The more recent stick shift is already at about 2,500 RPM at 100. It actually bothers me seeing it rev so high at such low speeds. I can only imagine how much better the MPG could be only if they would've geared it differently.
Yet, I get better mileage with the stick shift. The engine is problably more efficient which would explain why it can turn faster but still take in less fuel.
Of course, there's also the style of driving. My wife is a bit less "proactive" than me and likes to speed up fast.
I, on the other end, am more of the hyper-mileage type, even in city driving which accounts for like 95% of my driving. If I see a light turn red far away, I just go on neutral and cruise to the light, I try to avoid "stop and go" driving. I shift at no more than 2k, which I guess is the positive aspect of being low-geared. Higher highway revs, but decent acceleration even at lower revs.
One thing I don't like when I drive my wife's car in the city, is that when you let go of the gas, it goes back to idle, below 1k. Problem is, if you only let go of the gas for a split second, it still falls all the way to idle, then as soon as you touch the gas again, it suddenly revs back up... that can't help the MPG. It's like leaving the tranny in neutral and just toying with the gas pedal, revving the engine up and down over and over again. The gap in achieved MPG between city/highway is consequently much bigger on the auto than stick shift, I noticed.
In any case, with all this marketing/hype about how MPG is getting so much better with newer technology etc, fact of the matter is my old 2001 Nissan Sentra 1.8L was getting significantly better mileage than this newer car. I was getting real-world 7.2L /100km in the exact same driving routine I am now getting about 8.5 with the 2012 Mazda. Sure, it's got about 25-30 more HP, and it's 2.0L vs 1.8, but they were both 5-speed and I have the exact same driving pattern.
My wife never could be bothered with tracking her MPG.
I hope the MPG will get better after I do my first oil change. I'm at ~3,500 km now, and will do my oil change as soon as weather permits, so probably in a month or so. I'm not holding my breath though, I really don't think it'll make such a big difference.
nooe, i try to shift between 2-2.5k (im a hyper mileager too) and the car dowesnt bog. My rule is to try and keep it around 2000rpm all the time, unless i wanna go fast baha
No problem shifting "so low". But yeah let's just say you don't acheive 0-50 km/h in 5 seconds doing that haha
Although, if you shift quick enough, shifting low doesn't necessarily mean slower acceleration, you can step on it, yet still shift quickly... of course you'll defeat the purpose a bit by doing that (step on it = worse MPG) and you'll never speed up as fast as using the whole gear but, it's doable.
I just like to drive gently on the highway, so when i want to step on it, im already happy with my mileage
I found the best way to curb lead foot syndrome is to put a MPG gage connected to the ECU. It's amazing watching it drop as you push in the pedal, and rise as you coast or stick to lower RPMs.
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I double-checked my numbers on the freeway the other night on the 5-speed : 2,750 RPM @ 100km/h, and 3,000 @ 109.
So starting at about 2,000 RPM @ 70, it seems to go by "steps" of about 250 RPM per 10 km/h. But, passed 100 km/h, it goes faster... like 250 RPM for every 8 or 9 km/h. I'd figure the faster you get, the more this gap diminishes. At 120 it seemed to be around 3,300.
Even the 2.5 can be fuel efficient.
2014 Mazda3 Sport GT