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As the result of our 2005 Odyssey being totalled this past January, we purchased a 2008 Saturn Outlook. We had owned an Odyssey since 2001 and was on our second one. My Wife & I were blown away by Outlook XR package, it has everything! We were very pleased with our purchase until we went through our first tank of gas (provided by the delear). 22 gallons and well less than 300 miles! We had been used to at least that with our Odyssey. I figured I would give it a few more fillups before passing judgement, but still got the same results. It ended up being around an average of 14 mpg or so. My wife is the one that mainly drives it. It's the usual drop off/pick up from school, running errands, some freeway, some surface streets, etc.. I was really concerned about the mileage. That was until out trip this weekend from Simi Valley to San Luis Obispo.
Great trip! I was hoping we could do the whole trip on 1 tank of gas but wasn't sure how it would go. On the way up we averaged 23.2 mpg! We're doing a bit over 24 mpg before a couple of stops. We had a total trip average of 22.2 mpg and this was after the driving around we did in San Luis Obispo over 2 days. We probably averaged around 68-70 mph and didn't go "charging" up any of the hills. I had seen the trip meter register over 300 miles a tank of gas only once before (305). That was after significantly more freeway driving than usual and the average was 14.4 mpg. Well we got home, 399 miles and still had a little less than a quarter of a tank left! Not so worried about the mileage any more! We're just not used to such a drastic difference between "city" and highway mileage.
Great trip! I was hoping we could do the whole trip on 1 tank of gas but wasn't sure how it would go. On the way up we averaged 23.2 mpg! We're doing a bit over 24 mpg before a couple of stops. We had a total trip average of 22.2 mpg and this was after the driving around we did in San Luis Obispo over 2 days. We probably averaged around 68-70 mph and didn't go "charging" up any of the hills. I had seen the trip meter register over 300 miles a tank of gas only once before (305). That was after significantly more freeway driving than usual and the average was 14.4 mpg. Well we got home, 399 miles and still had a little less than a quarter of a tank left! Not so worried about the mileage any more! We're just not used to such a drastic difference between "city" and highway mileage.