Quote Originally Posted by serega12 View Post
There's more to life than MPG
Not when you buy a car that the dealers puts in big fat letters in the windshield 49 MPG when in reality the car only gets 1/2 of that if you are lucky!

I've had the same problem with my 1.6L from day 1 myself.

On a full tank of gas back when my car was 100% stock, in fact my mileage stayed roughly the same throughout my time with the 1.6L. I would get around 300 to 320 kms on a full tank of gas and the light would flash in my face to feed it more gas. Did not matter if i babied it or stomped on it.

Thats 15-16 mpg btw, on a car thats suposed to get 40+

I've had TERRIBLE gas mileage with this car, my Mazda 3, twice as big, with more power even tho its only the 2.0L its still 158 hp, with a/c blasting gets 550-600 kms on a tank of gas, thats well over 30 mpg. Easy to say im in heaven compared to the aveo's gas mileage!

But don't forget the Aveo's 1.6L is using engine technology thats over 20 years old, it's not as refined as today's newer engines like the 1.5L found in the Toyota Yaris, that car is extremely easy on gas its incredible!

Hopefully the new 1.8L ecotecs and the 1.4L turbo found in the new Sonics will yield better gas mileage, i really hope so for GM's sake...