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esskay 5 days ago

No, not even close to good.

I'm having to convert to US gallons to Imperial here but...

My old ICE car was getting approx 50mpg (which is approx 41mpg for you) and was considered poor for its age. My new one (hybrid) is 60mpg (approx 50mpg for you).

For a fairly modern car (e.g under 10 years old) in the UK you'd expect at least 40–50 MPG (UK) / 33–42 MPG (US), and even that would be considered on the lower end. Most modern cars are either electric or hybrid here these days so you'd expect 60–100 MPG (UK) / 50–83 MPG (US).

hedgehog 5 days ago | parent [-]

Few modern gas cars will get over 50 US MPG in city usage. 35 MPG is probably a better estimate for the hybrid fleet which is still much, much better than gas cars of a decade ago.

kristo 4 days ago | parent [-]

My 2011 golf gets 40mpg real world mileage. Tiny engine, but I don’t need to impress anyone with my car

hedgehog 3 days ago | parent [-]

That's exceptional fuel economy for that car, typical looks like 25-35 MPG. If you are more skilled than average (I'm guessing so), don't have too many short trips, and live somewhere relatively flat no doubt it's doable. Edit: while I was looking I checked out the Prius and RAV4 and it turns out median reported MPG is around 49 and 39 so maybe my intuition is tainted by living in a hillier than average area.

kristo 3 days ago | parent [-]

I do live in the Netherlands, and drive conservatively and it is also manual and the smallest engine, all of which might help