Wife claims better fuel mileage than my RAV4. Possible? Mostly Interstate and highway driving. We both use 85 octane Regular. All tires up to pressure. Thank you. (Anything I can do to improve RAV4?)

Thank you. She will make the same 470-mile round trip bloodelivery in the 2016 RX350 and 2013 RAV4. But I do not have fuel tank capacities. Is the RX350 not heavier than the RAV4? To save fuel, when possible, I draft larger vehicles. (Many Texan’speed in their SUVs,o I make better time and les…

Driving habits. Bet she drives slower. Big difference.

Just visited FoDaddy’s link. RX350’s fuel tank is 19.2 gallons 19 mpg / 26 mpg 422-mile range RAV4 is 15.9 gallons 22 mpg / 28 mpg 398-mile range I thoughthatheyvould be similar capacity gas tanks. She does not draft as I often do. She gets 470-mle range!

Range is a combination of tank capacity and fuel economy but range alone doesn’t prove that one vehicle consumes less than the other. My Dodge Ram has a 35 gallon tank and can go nearly twice as far on a tank as my Stratus that gets 30 MPG.

Yes. Being Toyotas, I thoughthey had very similar capacity fuel tanks. One time I drafted a semi going 85 to 90 miles per hour on posted 75 mph Interstate. (Most semis are governed at 65 mph to save fuel.) Presumably he had a radar detector or other truckers reported state patrol locations. (The…

Maybe wife is lighter :slight_smile: Maybe the dog rides with you; I will do the math on the miles driven and how much fuel filled. I do this on all my cars. Range even in the same car does not mean much as the gauges could defer on when they hit empty. One might need a gallon less at empty compar…

The Lexus has a display in the instrument cluster showing overall fuel economy average and tank economy, it should be easy to see that the RX350 consumes more fuel than a RAV4.

Our used toy poodle from animal rescue is 4.1 lbs! Wife is lighter unless I consider her handbag. Even has a 25-ft.ape measure!! Years ago I kept meticulous records, always over-filling exactly to the seam in the fuel filler tube. But emergentransports ruin everything. (Used half a tank transp…

Most cars cluster calculation is off. The only two that I found accurate were the Mazda CX-9 (now sold) and my Hyundai Veloster. I have stopped doing the math on these two because it is as close to 0.1 MPG.

2016 Lexus RX350 better fuel mileage than 2013 RAV4?

General Discussion

oldtimer-11 August 6, 2018, 3:30am 9

The capacity of your gas tank nothing to do with your gas mileage and if you think it does you are not calculating your mileage correctly.

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