4th Gen Outback Gas Mileage

[Somerset Max]

Bham Subie--Which transmission do you have on your new Outback?

Is it a MT 4 cylinder or a CVT 4 cylinder?

How can we compare or evaluate your gas mileage if we don't know the details on your Outback's powertrain?

[Brett K]

2010 2.5/CVT, 1800 miles - I have been getting 25.2 over the last few hundred miles with a light foot and mostly country driving and some interstate. Not as good as others, but about what I was expecting given the hills we climb every day within 10 miles of my house.

[Ignatius]

Originally posted by Somerset Max
Bham Subie--Which transmission do you have on your new Outback?

Is it a MT 4 cylinder or a CVT 4 cylinder?

How can we compare or evaluate your gas mileage if we don't know the details on your Outback's powertrain?

Bham has a CVT, I searched his previous posts

[heyandy]

3.6R Limited

Approaching my first 1,000 miles (tonight going home), had 3 fill-ups...

Gas Cubby on the iPhone is showing an average of 21.9 mpg..
The Subaru's trip "computer" is showing 23.5 mpg..

For each fill-up I have noticed the Subaru's computer has calculated the mpg higher, normally about .5 to .7 mpg higher then I do by "hand"... Anyone else notice a difference?

[Bham Subie]

Right Myllari - CVT. I'll have to add it to my profile.

Heyandy - mine reads a bit higher as well than what I calculate by hand. I put +1 mpg in my post above, but its actually varied from +.6 to +1 mpg.

Note - my mpg seems to have improved a bit since upping the tire pressure to 35psi from the 30psi that the dealer had them at.

[KSSky]

Just hit 1000 miles today on 2.5 with CVT... average is 27 with probably 60/40 hwy/ city. I wish it gave average speed... My Saturn Sky redline with 300HP/340TQ is average of 30MPG but average speed is 52 at the moment (totally different car tho) !!

[New 2Soobie]

My wife and I did a 650 mile stretch from Portland to Grants Pass, then on to Klamath Falls, then back to Portland. Had 4 adults and our dog in the vehicle for about 1/3rd of the total miles. Average trip computer mileage reported as 31.2. The "hand method" was 30.0 Very good either way.

[creso]

I did about 700mi in my '10 Outback 2.5i 6MT this weekend. My first tank got 475mi on 16.5gal = 28.8mpg. This was mountain driving from 5500ft to 11k ft, 90% highway >60mph and 10% around town. Im very impressed.

[FrankSS]

2.5 CVT first tank got 28.5 MPG, 70% city/20% highway/10% mountain.

COOOOOOL..

[JarekMW]

2.5i CVT PZEV - I’m confused. I have about 2500 km on my new OB. While driving for about 2 hours on the highway, I’ve got about 7.2 l/100km average (according to a trip display). It translates into 32 mpg. The average for the entire 2500 km (about 60% in the city) , is about 9.0 l/100km (translates into 26 mpg. Is it possible that OB is the first car I’m driving (after eight new cars I owned in the past), that has better fuel economy then posted manufacturer numbers (22 mpg city and 29mpg hwy)? Or is it something wrong with the car computer?