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'84 VW Rabbit Diesel. Powerless little bean can that would rattle along at 48-50 mpg regardless of how it was driven. My closest estimates, tracking it with CarFax, was that it had over 450,000 miles when I bought it - though I don't know if it still had the original engine.
Had a 1997 Ford Contour for about a decade. Put 160k on it, and it was averaging 32mpg when I sold it.
Best mileage of any vehicle I've owned (not a car) was a Honda Passport scooter (1982 I think) that got about 100mpg. I'd put a gallon of gas into it per month, and used it for commuting to work.
My new Camry is currently averaging 31mpg but it only has 500 miles on it. A rental I had a year ago averaged 38 hwy running accross the west at 75-80mph.
I just pulled records from my 2001 Jetta TDI (car has 239k miles, we've put ~170k on it so the records for that 170k) and I'm averaging 48.3mpg. Highest was 55.4mpg. So, that was ~800 miles on one fill-up.
All mileage readings are for Full tanks, no computer estimation (which few people can keep up for full tanks time and time again), and no hyper-miler stuff (that I'm aware of). I pretty much set cruise and forget it, run the AC to stay comfortable, etc...
My 1985 Nissan Sentra got 39 mpg on virtually every fill up.
My girlfriend had a 1996 Geo Metro, and I drove it on a 600 mile trip and got 51 mpg.
I had a 1987 Sentra (my first car), 3 speed auto, and it averaged 34-36 mpg in mixed driving. That was the best car on gas, although my Accord (5 speed man.) gets my 33 mpg highway and I tend to lead foot it sometimes.
1997 Honda Civic EX Coupe. I owned it for six years and accumulated 150k miles, still averaged 31 mpg overall.
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