Hello,
Its been a year since i been driving my 2010 Mazda3 GS. I live in canada and here it snows a lot. So considering that on an average i am getting 25.1 mpg from sep 2010 to aug 2011- In between i have missed about 8 fuels up (4000 kms). Right now i have 17000 kms n the car. Is this a reasonable mileage am getting? I mostly drive 65% city. As not many highways here. What is the actual mileage that other people here r getting?
Thanks

 

Manual transmission or Automatic? If a Manual then your mileage looks pretty much bang on compared to what it should be, if you have an Automatic, then if anything, your mileage looks pretty good; if anything a bit high.

 

Hey Shipo thanks for replying. Its an automatic transmission. But 27 mpg city/ 39 mpg highway is the epa rating by mazda. Seems like i am way off that. Thats why i am concerned.

 

I suppose those numbers must equate to the Imperial Gallon (which if memory serves is ~16.5% larger) as there's no way they're even remotely accurate for the U.S. Gallon. FWIW, the U.S. EPA has the 2.0 and 2.5 liter Mazda3 Automatics rated at 24/27/33 and 22/25/29 (city/combined/highway) respectively.

 

Yeah I would like to average 25 mpg. I drive almost all city and I average between 19-22 depending on how I am driving. I did drive from AZ to MT on all highway and was averaging well over 30 except going up the mountains. So yeah I agree with Shipo you are doing pretty good at 25 for a ATX.

 

Yeah that's about spot on. Combined and not really trying I average 27. For a short couple of months I tried really really hard to improve my mileage and managed to average 30-32 with a couple tanks (mostly highway traveling) up to 35. That's with a 2.3 MTX. Sadly the return of warm weather and usage of A/C slaughtered by awesome mileage. That and my battery was replaced at almost the exact same time and when the ECU was reset the mileage plummeted.

 

I rarely drive with the A/C engaged, however, of late I've been working two contracts which means I need to commute 38 miles south in the very early morning (no A/C needed here), 75 miles north in the early afternoon (MAX A/C for the full run), and then 43 miles back south (need A/C about two-thirds of the time on this run). Given that I value sleep more than fuel economy, I've been running all three legs at speeds upwards of 80 (where safely possible), and my fuel economy has suffered as a result; just under 31 mpg at last fill-up.

FWIW, my car is a 2.0 liter 2009 Mazda3 i TVE with a 5-Speed.

 

Yeah when it was cooler I was running without A/C at all, and actually on several long distance trips recently I've run without A/C on the highway. Can't do that with the wife in the car since she won't tolerate the fan speed being turned up to compensate for the warmer air, and I won't tolerate a warm car with no air flow.

I would have been perfectly happy to continue going without A/C but for two things. One I was in eastern North Carolina and we had 2-3 months where the low at night was 89 and the common temp during the day was 96-104 (temp, not heat index). Two my son is way more prone to overheating than I am.

 

Yeah, the Mrs. often has a mandatory A/C affect on the car; she gets in on a perfectly delightful 75°F day, a day where I wouldn't even remotely consider A/C, and before we're even out of the driveway she asks for the windows to go up and the A/C to be engaged. Our daughter is the same way; guess they don't like that wind-blown hair look.

 

Yup, gorgeous days just begging for the windows to be open and we have to shut them up. And she'll never tolerate the sunroof being open.