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Why doesn't our Chevrolet Aveo return its quoted mpg figures?
I am writing to you regards the 1.2 Chevrolet Aveo LT we have just bought. We acquired it on 25 March and have now done 3000 miles but just don't seem to be getting anywhere near the 60.1mpg combined that was advertised. We are only getting 45mpg. We did not expect to get 60.1mpg but we did expect to get at least 50mpg. We bought the car because of the high mpg as I will be retiring soon and we wanted to be able to just go off for the day and not worry about the fuel but that looks like it isn’t going to happen.
Asked on 27 July 2013 by JP, West Auckland
Answered by
Honest John
The average fuel economy of the Chevrolet Aveo 1.2 achieved by real drivers in real conditions is 46.5mpg. See: www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/chevrolet/aveo-2008
Do not be misled by the ECDC Lab Test figure as that is only carried out to extrapolate the CO2 output of the engine on the basis of which the car (and the manufacturer) are taxed. The only place to find what sort of economy real drivers of 2,500 cars are achieving in real life is: www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg. Anyone thinking of buying a car should check there before they buy.
Do not be misled by the ECDC Lab Test figure as that is only carried out to extrapolate the CO2 output of the engine on the basis of which the car (and the manufacturer) are taxed. The only place to find what sort of economy real drivers of 2,500 cars are achieving in real life is: www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg. Anyone thinking of buying a car should check there before they buy.
Real MPG enables you to register the fuel economy you are actually getting against your make and model of car, its engine and type of transmission.
Every time you enter an average consumption figure against your car, the overall average automatically adjusts to reflect it.
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