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Jetta Owners: Question About MPG
Tara,
one more thing to take into consideration is what most of your driving consists of: in-town versus highway.
Depending on the engine, your Jetta's consumption rating is anywhere between 17 - 21 mpg for city driving. If you have any of the 2.8 L engines (VR6), then you're actually doing better than the rating with 20 mpg. Even if you have the 1.8 L engine you're still pretty much on-par with the city rating (21). For an almost 10 yrs old car your Jetta actually is doing pretty decent.
Contrary, if your driving is mostly highway, then you need to have it checked out (scanned, etc).
As far as "most of the Jettas" on Fuelly with 40+ mpg, as people have said it before, those are diesel powered engined. However, don't compare yours with those, as if you read between the lines you'll notice that some people "get" 49 mpg with 85 % city driving...yeah, right...
Only compare your mpg against your own car's rating.
posted by chefro September 7, 2011 at 6:09 PM