07 Touring - MPG Rock Star!

[Isresistancefutile?]

After a slow summer, I've been piling on the miles recently - just over a thousand last week and around 800 this week. Take a look at my gas mileage number in this shot from the onboard computer! This is mostly freeway driving, with the cruise typically set just below 80. If I detour to a state highway with lower limits, the number jumps to 32 or 33 MPG.

I have verified this with my own calculations at the gas pump and the computer is within a few tenths every time. I continue to be impressed with the quiet road manners of the Avalon and its apparent invisibility to the highway patrol. More so when I see ads for lesser 4 cylinder, 160 HP cars that are rated for 29 MPG. Ha!

Hope everyone else is seeing such numbers with their Avalons!

[bobstcyr]

I agree! I have just last night returned from a 3,900 mile trip from NH to DC to FL to Nashville to Wiliamsburg VA and back to NH. I averaged 32 mpg @75MPH or more except for when I got jammed up in heavy traffic and construction (in some places severely - stop-n-go to full stop for 20 minutes or more).

This is remarkable mpg's. I did an oil change with synthetic oil just before leaving. I used to get 33 mpg's prior to the ethanol using regular oil. don't know if the synthetic helped but I am pleased. FYIW I got to Crystal Rive FL on less than 2.5 tanks. To say I'm pleased is an understatement!

Happy Motoring!

Bob

[haroldo]

Keeping your tires inflated properly will help your mileage.
If you 'overinflate' (as long as it is within reason, such as 3-4 PSI over recommended) you will see improvement.
Keeping your weight down also helps (don't keep a lot of 'junk in your trunk').
Not sure of the Avalon's onboard computer, but the Camry's is typically ~1 MPG high.

[Henk]

Just picked up my 08 Touring in Las Vegas. On the trip home, across Arizona, I got a calculated 34.8 mpg, the display showed 33.0. That's at 70-75 mpg!