My Subaru Outback has been a nice surprise in this area.
The combined highway/city mileage on the sticker was 24 mpg, and I've been getting 27 or 28 mpg for the entire 2 years I've owned it. For a while I was commuting between Denver and Boulder (about 45 miles each way) five days a week and taking it up to the mountains for hiking or skiing every weekend, so it's been over a wide variety of terrain.
I'm using the numbers on the in-car, computer, though, so maybe I should double check...
Car computers are notoriously inaccurate. I have observed errors up to 12% in vehicles from multiple manufacturers. Car computers can be helpful in a relative sense to tell you whether one style of driving is more or less efficient than another but they're basically worthless for absolute calculations. The only reliable way to accurately calculate fuel economy (in mpg units) is to divide the number of miles since you last refueled by the number of gallons to fill the tank.
The combined highway/city mileage on the sticker was 24 mpg, and I've been getting 27 or 28 mpg for the entire 2 years I've owned it. For a while I was commuting between Denver and Boulder (about 45 miles each way) five days a week and taking it up to the mountains for hiking or skiing every weekend, so it's been over a wide variety of terrain.
I'm using the numbers on the in-car, computer, though, so maybe I should double check...