TOP 10 best by fuel economy
February 15, 2010 9:21 PM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

Hey guys,

Great site! How about another TOP 10 list, this time of the most fuel efficient vehicles, once you have a large enough sample size.

Searched the forum and found the same thing I was going to post about, although it's from 2 years ago. (http://www.fuelly.com/forum/102/TOP-10-bestworst-by-fuel-economy)

How about it? ... if there's enough data by now...

Although I'm mainly concerned with the Top 10 best, not so much the worst, although it would still be interesting to know.
posted by nismoskyz to Fuelly Site Issues at 9:21 PM (2 comments total)

mathowie
Feb 15, 2010
9:48 PM

We've considered lots of different top 10 lists, but tend to shy away from performance-based lists. We do this because the site is so easy to game and lets users post fake data if they wanted.

Right now, there's no real reason to do that (we don't list the highest MPG first in any listings) but if there was an incentive like you get to appear first on every page for your car, you can bet some people would be inclined to goose their rankings a bit.

And considering we have lots of car clubs on this site that are very proud of their chosen vehicle, I could see a pretty easy concerted effort from a small group attempting to push their car into the top slot for bragging rights.

Leaderboards are something we avoid here for all these reasons.


boutmuet
Feb 16, 2010
3:30 PM

It encourages fake posting.

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