Mpg help

[Thymeclock]

i just bought a Aveo 5 aoutomatic. I just hit 1,000 miles, and have only got 25 mpg on each tank. I have drove hwy at 60 - 65 mph and 70-75 mph with no change. when can i expect to reach the numbers that it should.

Welcome to the club. You probably will never reach the EPA estimated MPG that it "should". Read this thread (click here). Whenever your car is not in torque converter lockup mode (meaning when it is moving at any speed below 45 MPH) the A/T is inefficient and it will be getting lousy gas mileage. When that factor is added into your combined average city/highway driving it lowers your total MPG substantially. And the bitch of it is that there is no way to change or rectify how the electronically controlled A/T is programmed.

Mine gets 22 city, 37 highway. That very wide spread in the city/highway figures illustrates where the problem lies. Unfortunately, virtually all our driving is below 45 MPH. In cold winter weather such as now, we get about 20 MPG at best. And it makes no difference how conservatively the car is driven. For such a small car, it's pathetic. At low speeds the A/T is a pig on gas consumption.