# What would your car get these days **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [October 17, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-would-your-car-get-these-days/6054 "2007-10-17T04:00:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![srusinek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@srusinek](https://community.cartalk.com/u/srusinek)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-would-your-car-get-these-days/6054/1 "2007-10-17T04:00:12Z")
Below is a link by the EPA on how your current vehicle would do with the new fuel ecomony standards. [http://www…onomy.gov/](http://www.fueleconomy.gov/) Enjoy the link, Steve ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 4:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-would-your-car-get-these-days/6054/2 "2007-10-17T04:13:35Z")
In regards to my Lincoln Mark VIII, both old and new are wrong. Highway old - 25 Highway new - 23 I always get 27 and have hit 30 at times. City old - 18 City new - 16 I get 19. ---
**Author:** ![Wha-Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9f8e36/32.png) [@Wha-Who](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Wha-Who)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-would-your-car-get-these-days/6054/3 "2007-10-17T05:22:21Z")
Us too. Our good car easily does 33 on highway. Old EPA was 32, new is 29. I’ll add about 10% to the new EPA highway numbers for a good estimate of what we can actually get for a quick mental calculation. 14% would be a little closer. Thanks Steve, for the web site! ---
**Author:** ![mr\_josh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mr_josh/32/3008_2.png) [@mr\_josh](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mr_josh)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 6:41am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-would-your-car-get-these-days/6054/4 "2007-10-17T06:41:12Z")
Hey, a Mark VIII driver, cool. My '90 Tbird V6 was 19 / 27, now is 17 / 24. Remarkably, the old one was dead on the money. On the highway with the cruise set at 75 and the AC on, I get 27. If I turn off the cruise, turn off the AC, and try to keep a light touch on the throttle, I can push that to 30. That’s an underpowered V6 with 125k hard miles. ---
**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 10:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-would-your-car-get-these-days/6054/5 "2007-10-17T10:44:42Z")
``` I always have done better than the estimates. So any adjustment down is only going to be more wrong for me. It would appear that driving style makes a big difference. ``` ---
**Author:** ![andrew\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@andrew\_j](https://community.cartalk.com/u/andrew_j)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 11:26am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-would-your-car-get-these-days/6054/6 "2007-10-17T11:26:59Z")
My Subaru WRX seems about right. They state 18MPG city and 25MPG highway and 20MPG combined. I manage 25MPG on the highway tops when driving 55MPH. Otherwise with minimal city I get a consistent 23MPG. ---
**Author:** ![hoffmalr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bc8723/32.png) [@hoffmalr](https://community.cartalk.com/u/hoffmalr)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-would-your-car-get-these-days/6054/7 "2007-10-17T12:34:59Z")
I get better than both new and old estimates for my 1996 Dodge Neon too. Old city - 25. Old highway - 33. New city - 22. New highway - 30. For purely stop and go traffic like my commute to work, I get about 27 mpg. All highway driving, I get about 34, even up to 36. For an average tank, I’ll get about 32 mpg. Driving style clearly makes a difference, or those estimates are very conservative!