Right on bro!

For those of you who don't remember, fiero won the fuzzy dice by guessing what time the scion.com new site went live.

we made a silly contest. he won. it was worth it, lol

 

My empty light just came on after my very first tank of gas. I have 297 miles on my car. I did some around town, some freeway, so I think my mpg's are very near the same range my 1st gen xB gets. It's Sunday morning so I'm not doing division today. I'm relaxing.

 

Wow, thanks for easing my mind about the new xB. That's really not much of a drop at all.

Make mine Super White with nav!

 

Assuming 2 gallons remaining when the light comes on (just a guess), 300 miles/12 gallons used = 25mpg. Was that a typical average for your XB1? (Mine averages 30.)

R

 

Well, yes that was about my average, but I hardly ever go far. So my little xB had and has mostly town miles. The big xB was mostly driving on freeways the first 200 miles. (What? I had to go show everybody the second generation!)
I dig the illumination at night. I'm glad I bought it. I am always sucking on a bottle of water, and the lights in the cup holders makes it look almost like I have a lava lamp in there. I'm also glad I got the spoiler. I'm tripping out about how many people in other cars, ESPECIALLY scions, crane their necks and slow down to peer at it. I have a custom banner on the windshield of my little xB in a pretty font "Scion xB" and I'm trying to decide if I am going to do that or not. It should probably say "Scion xB 2nd Gen" but that would look dumb up on the top of my windshield.

 

im getting about 280-320ish
big range i know...lol

 

28 MPG on the first tank. I had an 06 xB and always got 30 or 31 MPG in all types of driving. I bought an 08 xB last week. I filled up yesterday with 9.7 gallons and had gone 270 miles. I have been driving it with a feather foot to be gentle on the engine for the break in period. Most of the driving has been stop and go in the L.A. rush hour. I am guessing that I'll be getting about 26 to 28 MPG in normal driving. I am not relying on the MPG shown on the dash.

 

OOPS, I made a typo - it was 279 miles on 9.7 gallons.

 

The EPA Website shows what a 2008 version of the gas mileage sticker would look like for earlier model cars. The 1st Gen xB is shown here:

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/calcu...umn=1&id=21033

27 City 32 Highway

Still higher than the new xB's 22/28

Hybrids take a real hit under the new test. Prius is 48/45 vs. 60/51

 

This is what I got so far.

193 miles on a little over half.



Sam

 

I hate reading this board at work. All the pictures are censored out. It sucks!!!

 

Went on a highway trip and it said I was getting about 29.5.

 

First 406 miles: 17.4 MPG - dash computer says average speed of 17mph.

Today we drove 103 miles at highway speeds - occasionally 95, mostly 70. 26.6 MPG, average speed of 50. That included a lovely 45 minute wait in the parking lot at the Santa Monica pier while nobody seemed to be able to merge out...........

I call on the technicians at Toyota of Orange, and when I complained to one of them that the milage was horrible, he told me to switch to premium gas, and either run two tanks through it or run the car almost out, refill with premium, pull the two ECU fuses, and reinstall them.

Apparently the computer will advance the engine timing untill it senses detonation (aka knock sensor) and using preimum gas allows more advance. I did it today, we'll see if it helps. If it does, you heard it here first.

 

Has anybody had a chance to analyze the accuracy of the MPG indicator? Anyone used a ScanGauge in their xB2 yet?

r

 

What is a scan gauge?

My MPG indicator is pretty accurate, hasn't been off more than 1/2 MPG any time I checked it. I'm going to stop manually calculating it from now on.

 

And where would you put it? And with all the guage functions that the xB2 has, is there still need for it?

 

This is the ScanGauge: http://www.scangauge.com/

How can you tell how accurate the MPG indicator is? Does it store and display per-tank data that you can compare with manual calculations? Can you tell it how much gas you just put into the tank, etc.?

r

 

on 2 tanks i got about the same 22.8 miles per gallon that is driving 75-80 and flooring it all the time. the miles estimator on the dash read 21.5 so very close.

 

Got 33 driving on the highway.

Love the gas mileage.

 

I think the gauge cluster is more than adaquate. That scanguage is IMO unnecessary. I sell that sort of diagnostic equipment for a living FWIW.

Every time I reset the odometer it recalculates the milage for that tank of gas. Recalculates average speed too.