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Originally Posted by mullini
My 2013 sDrive is at 36700 miles. I live in LA, have had a few short road trips (Palm Springs, etc). For a long time my total MPG was showing as 28. But after a long period of only city driving (which can include flowing freeway traffic), it has dropped to 27.6. When I'm doing mostly street driving, I get a tank MPG average of 24-25.
So it was those few longer road trips that got my overall average as high as it shows now, 27.6. My X1 at least must have been achieving 34 mpg during those trips.
But for now I"m trying not to recklessly pile on any more mileage. I'd like to make it to four years with 50,000 miles and take advantage of as much free maintenance as possible. I purchased it November 2012 so I've got to make it through 16 months or so on 13,000 miles...
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Definitely part of the numbers depend on the terrain, LA is pretty flat compared to Columbia, SC which is mostly hills but also LA is mostly hwy driving although slow hwy driving. If I go 2-3 miles it's no true hwy and it's constant lights. So everyone is really comparing apples and oranges and we can't compare totally different areas of the U.S.
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