Gen III Prius, 51 city mpg, Myth or Fact ?

I got 57 driving around my town the other day. Technically, it is not a city, but the road I was driving on has multiple lights and plenty of stop and go action. I went into 4 different stores. There was no warm up period for the car that is not figured into this total. I got into my car, set the Trip B to 0 and went out and did my errands.

 

We get between 53 and 58 MPG indicated, in a combination of city and freeway driving. The mileage in the city is as good as the freeway, as long as the drive is more than a few miles.

 

I get about 60-75 mpg in city only, my combined city/highway 50/50% is about 55mpg.
I don't suspect that there is much difference between your streets or mine.

 

I get in the 30s for short city trips. Around 40 for longer trips. I got awful city mileage in my previous car, lexus gs 400 also though.

 

i get 60 -70 in pure city driving. duration is important as it takes a few miles (depending on outside temp) for the engine to warm up, during which time it gets very poor mileage. you should spend some time here learning about your car to determine if it's your trip distances, driving style or a problem with your car causing the poor city mileage. your hywy mpg seem fine.

 

i dont get 51 mpg either. man i would be sooo pissed if i did!!

 

I average 51 to 53 mpg on local driving to and from work.

 

i don't do it everyday. it's not my commute, but i have occasion to drive into downdown boston from the suburbs. 25-35 mph, 20-30 miles round trip, generally an hour depending on traffic. many lights and relatively flat. that is a 60-70 mpg route in my gen II and III should be as good or better.

every prius gets poor mileage unil warm up is complete so if you can measure mpg after x miles on a trip until stopped, it would be an interesting and higher number. i can't do it on gen II.

wasn't assuming anything. peace brother.

 

Boston is a pretty big town

must be nice. where i come from, there is only one freeway. that is I-5 and trust me, you only get on I-5 when you have no choice, which we dont if going parts east to north (have to swing around the end of Puget Sound to go North)

i purposefully parked my Zenn and drove my Prius to work. its 7 miles one way, speeds 25-40 mph. no traffic in the morning, VERY heavy traffic coming home. in my short commute, i was averaging 54-58 mpg in the summer, 47-50 mpg in the winter.

so ya, with the right conditions, driving style and an appropriate sacrifice to the traffic light gods; one most definitely can get 50+ mpg.

 

i was thinking summer. winter mpg is about 10-15% lower.

 

My last tank was 587 miles on 9.03 gallons. Calculates to 65.01 MPG and it was 100% Phoenix city driving to and from work. OK, it did include taking my son to the orthodontist and a trip to Home Depot, but I avoid the freeway. I will take the access road. Accelerate to 40, then glide 3/4 of a mile to the next light and repeat. The wife uses 6 miles of freeway 5 days a week from work, and her mileage (Blue in my signature) is lower, but we both set the CC at 56 in the right lane when we are on the freeway.

51 MPG, I hope I never see numbers that low.
Tom

 

if you're talking madison square garden to brooklyn on friday afternoon, that's not city driving, that's the southeast expressway here in boston. stop and go, creep and crawl, that will kill your battery and your mileage!

 

On windy mountain roads driving with a semi-lead foot (as a delivery driver for 5hours a night) with temps still in freezing to low 40's F, I am getting mid to high fourties in mpg. There is no hypermilling here. Once it warms up eventually, hopefully I will get higher. But what other car gives you this kind of mileage and is available in the states?! If the iQ was here, or the deisel smart, then maybe, but as soon as it gets to the US they will add some rediculous engine and increase the weight by a few hundred pounds just for the hell of it.

Maybe they will bring the hybrid Auris over? 74.3 imperial mpg, which is 61.9 US mpg and it looks better than the Prius too...