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Meaning, what would be considered "acceptable" gas mileage for you?
For me, anything 25 mpg mixed highway/city and I am fine with it. I drive a Lexus IS250 which takes premium but I do average more than 25 mpg so I'm good.
I haven't been below 50 mpg yet on a fill up and it'll do about 45 at 75 or 80 on the freeway. Tradeoff is it's a Prius, one of the slowest and least fun to drive vehicles ever made. Pretty comfortable and practical, however, if not at all luxurious. Certainly quieter and more comfortable than the Mazda3 it replaced.
Depends on the role of the car/truck. My tow rig gets about 14 mpg, while my commuter is about 180mpg lifetime (though it's usually daily mpg is near infinite, as it uses no gas at all). A weekend fun car has no fuel mileage requirements, as you pay to play.
I have yet to put a ton of priority on MPG when buying a car, beyond just making sure my DD isn't going to get 5 MPG. I have had Jeeps which got as low as 14 MPG and was perfectly ok with them (while driving 20K miles a year at the time).
These days, I have a Charger which gets 22 MPG for daily duty, and for as little as I drive now I can go weeks between fill ups. I could easily live with less MPG (Although having the cash for other things is nice too).
I don't worry about gas mileage for the most part because I don't waste money on other luxuries like $500 Iphones every 6 months with $150 a month plans. Home cable plans for $200+ a month, eating out all the time and buying other crap.
So driving a large gas guzzling tahoe so i can do more things and drive more comfortably is worth the expense on gas. I rather put my money into something that helps me live life over a "smart" phone that is used mostly for entertainment.
My 1997 tahoe from the factory is 13 city 17 highway but I'm sure I'm getting 15 city and 20 or more highway because of all the new parts I have in it and how well i maintain it.
Maybe if some people didn't buy excess crap they wouldn't have to worry about gas mileage so much. A car is a necessity not a luxury.
Eh.... 11mpg would be my minimum. I DD a truck that gets 13.5 mpg. I'm used to it.
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