Gas Saving Challenge Update

About a week ago I posted the techniques I use to increase my car’s efficiency. Well I have been doing them for a while now and I finally filled up. Sean, from Financial Ramblings , and I both participated in my challenge to see how much better over EPA estimates we could get. The results are finally in and here they are:

Sean’s Results:

Miles: 299.1

Gallons: 9.321

MPG: 32.0888

EPA: 26 mpg

% over EPA = 23.4%

Toyota Tercel

(Yea that’s my car. Well mine isn’t really quite that nice but it a picture of the same model. Fancy isn’t it.)

My Results:

Miles: 320.2

Gallons: 9.844

MPG: 32.527

EPA: 29 mpg

% over EPA = 12.16%

And the winner is Sean by a landslide. He did very well and congratulations to him. I really don’t see what else I could have done better. I think my car does need a tune up. I kind of tend to neglect it a lot. Maybe I will try this again later if I get a tune up or do something nice for my car. It has been reliable for years and I owe it something nice.

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3 Comments

  1. You are too kind, considering I was not able to get outside my normal range. :-)

    (I also think my revised EPA went down too much.)

    The people I know who have made big gains were the ones with a headstart… switching from maniac to normal, taking everything they own out of the trunk, etc.

    If we give this another try sometime, these tanks should probably be the baseline.

  2. [...] from David Makes Cents and Sean from Financial Ramblings recently had a gas saving challenge.  The goal was to see who could get the larger percentage improvement over the EPA MPG [...]

  3. That was a nice gas saving challenge. While there are a lot of gas saving tips online you can browse. Those tips will somehow help you save your gas and love your car more.

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