Dodge Caliber MPG claims - are they true?
As a member of the Dodge Caliber Owners Forum I am finding some extraordinary claims being made. In normal motoring, would you expect a heavy 2.0-litre CVT car to achieve 42mpg as one member showed in a photo of his fuel computer display?
Another member claims 36,000 miles for his tyres, still above the legal limit. And even the moderator claims 42,000 miles for tyres on a pick up truck? My experience of having owned 42 cars and driven a million miles is that in normal everyday motoring these figures are just not credible. My 2.0 litre CVT Caliber gets 23/26 mpg, but then these days I never travel more than a 15 mile round trip from Edgware to Garston North Watford to play bowls.
Another member claims 36,000 miles for his tyres, still above the legal limit. And even the moderator claims 42,000 miles for tyres on a pick up truck? My experience of having owned 42 cars and driven a million miles is that in normal everyday motoring these figures are just not credible. My 2.0 litre CVT Caliber gets 23/26 mpg, but then these days I never travel more than a 15 mile round trip from Edgware to Garston North Watford to play bowls.
Asked on 31 January 2009 by
Answered by
Honest John
Your mpg is what VCA classifies as 'urban'. And five miles of a 15-mile run from a cold start will be on the engine's cold running cycle where it overfuels. If you drove longer distances at 50 - 60mph on the motorway you would do much better. I averaged 57 over 600 miles on Saturday in a Focus ECOnetic 110. About 2mpg worse than its combined figure, but still pretty good for the conditions.
Real MPG enables you to register the fuel economy you are actually getting against your make and model of car, its engine and type of transmission.
Every time you enter an average consumption figure against your car, the overall average automatically adjusts to reflect it.
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