Originally Posted by MPK1232

wanna trade, i get only about 240 a tank

Originally Posted by BuckeyeInMI

Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is a very inaccurate way to measure your gas mileage. The only way to do it is measure what actually goes into the tank and compare it to the actual miles driven, and to do it for a long distance...When you're operating at the far right side of a bell curve, it doesn't take much to bring you back to the norm.

I was driving out of Colorado into Kansas once with a steady 30 mph tail wind and got about 37 mpg in my old Maxima. Accurate? Sure. Greatly affected by external forces? Absolutely.