[AstroKats]

Hi, my wife and I just purchased our first Subaru, and WOW we love it!
We found a used 2018 Crosstrek 50th Anniversary Edition at a car sales in Easton, PA.
It does have brutal mileage of 160k but the car is crazy clean and tidy, flew through an inspection and so far, we've put
around 3k on it with no issues at all and now just about to do an oil change.
The eyesight is amazing (scary at times as it feels really weird letting the car take control) but super great feature on long road trips.
Absolutely comfortable and smooth just like my '89 Caddy (and I love her).

The only thing I am wondering and it maybe the mileage factor but we've only been getting around 310-340 on a full tank with a mix of 30 city and 70 highway driving.
Is this average? or should we been getting better?
It is in no way a nudge down against the car but thought we'd be getting around 420-450 on a tank from the research I was doing before we purchased it.
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We have almost the same car and would be thrilled to get 30 MPG in city driving. I don't pay attention any more but when I was tracking it by gallons pumped and miles driven it was about 17 MPG in L.A. traffic.

 

[AstroKats]

Hi. 2019 cvt premium. Average 25 city/highway. Better than previous Malibu.

Is that what you've calculated? Don't trust the car's MPG display.

 

[AstroKats]

Was it the line, "Drive as if a cup of brim water is balancing on your dash board?"

Not from the movie but there one I like: drive as if you're taking your grandma to a pot luck and there's a big bowl of her famous chili on the back seat.

I dug out the spreadsheet from when I was tracking it when we first got the car. The best city was 21.9 and the worst was 16.9. The Exaggerometer was 9% and 11% optimistic, respectively. For highway, the best was 27.7 and the worst was 27.0, 6% and 10% optimistic. I tracked it for a year and the averages were 23.4 and 12%. It never underreported the fuel efficiency.

 

[AstroKats]

I've been tracking my milage, manual calculation, since I bought the car new in November of 2020. 2021 Ltd 2.5 Cvt. 95% of my driving is on rural county roads [25 to 45mph and a daily 20 mile round trip + some incidentals] No freeways on my rural PNW island. Just clocked a total of 15k miles.
Yearly average is just under 28mpg.

That's great that the bigger engine had better fuel economy. How does it compare to the car's display?

 

[AstroKats]

And I believe you're right! Sorry OP...

 

[AstroKats]

What is the app you are using for tracking your fuel?

FWIW, I just used a spreadsheet for a year. I know a lot of folks here use Fuelly.

 

[AstroKats]

Didn't know you were a fellow expat...