Gas mileage. So we know to ask the question of how fast are they driving on the highway when they measure mpg. But what the question is that nobody is asking is what their definition of a city is. Apparently the average speed of a national highway is 55 mph. I can tell you, that especially in Texas nobody is driving 55 mph on the highway, and if you are, I hate you. So taking into consideration that they consider a "highway" to be 55 mph, (most are 70 mph) what do you think a "city" is? Is it actually a town where a couple of 55 mph highways run through the one or two blinking lights? Not like an actual city with interstates and loops and stop and go and stand still traffic.
So considering that they are advertising to the masses, those of us living in real actual cities, shouldn't we all share the same definitions? But no. Car companies and their marketing schemes have duped us. False advertising strikes again! As I tell Jesse all the time: it's all semantics. They're just words, and word's do not mean anything these days. Don't forget what kind of world we are living in.
Moral of the story: my new Nissan should be getting 24 mpg on the highway and 18 in the city. Realistically it gets 18 on the highway and 14 in the city. At the very least Texas should rally to change the parameters of these mpg testing measures so that they accurately reflect the driving culture of the state that we live in. Or we can continue to lie down ass up like the good consumers we are. yaaaaayyyy!!!!!!
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