View Poll Results: What mileage (MPG) does your RX 300 get on a typical long highway trip?
Less than 16 MPG
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16
4.68%
16 to 16.9
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12
3.51%
17 to 17.9
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20
5.85%
18 to 18.9
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40
11.70%
19 to 19.9
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29
8.48%
20 to 20.9
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38
11.11%
21 to 21.9
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49
14.33%
22 to 22.9
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44
12.87%
23 to 23.9
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36
10.53%
24 to 24.9
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20
5.85%
25 to 25.9
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13
3.80%
26 to 26.9
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2
0.58%
27 MPG or more
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6
1.75%
Don't own an RX or don't know MPG, but show me the results anyway.
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17
4.97%
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Just returned from a trip to Florida in our 2000 RX300. 3300 miles total roundtrip. Zeroed computer at start of trip and we averaged 22.3 mpg. A lot of the miles were with cruise on at about 73 mph. Burn 87 octane gas, with prices ranging from $1.45 to $1.79.
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man, there's a lot of highway drivers here. i'm an 80% city driver and 20% hwy. i get an average of 17 -18 combine. there's nothing wrong with low mpg. you only have to pay more on the gas pump. city driving kills my gas money!
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I think the reason so many people are enquiring into others gas mileage is due to the earlier '99 & '00 Rx's having smaller gas tanks.
This combined with the fact the reserve light comes on really early (12-15 litres left), leaves rather poor mileage on a full tank (350 kilometers or 218 miles) in my case...
I have never owned a car that only gave me 218 miles on a full tank before reserve light came on. Especially if it was mostly highway mileage..
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Fern
This combined with the fact the reserve light comes on really early (12-15 litres left), leaves rather poor mileage on a full tank (350 kilometers or 218 miles) in my case...
I have never owned a car that only gave me 218 miles on a full tank before reserve light came on. Especially if it was mostly highway mileage..
Cheers,
Fern
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On some days of heavy use, I average about 12.5 to 12.9. I am in a much higher elevation, and the gas is not as good as American quality. Most of the time I average about 16 to 17 mpg in citry driving at 7,000 to 7,700 foot altitude. In the states, I get about 22-23.
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My driving consists of mostly city and some highway, mostly with AC on and I'm averaging right around 16mpg on a 2001 AWD. Some may have the setting on average mph by mistake. This threw me off a few times.
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I took my mife's 01 RX300 (FWD) for a week to commute to work (60 miles round trip, 90% hightway). It averaged 23.4 miles. The funny thing is that I reset the computer after the fill-up, after a week of driving, the computer says 42.5 MPG! I guess we just can't trust that on-board computer. My wife normally gets 17-18 MPG driving around the town. We use premium grade gas (93 octan) from Chevran.
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Actually a friend of mine owns the RX330 and I know that he actually gets 24mpg.; but then again it's hawaii so no one reli drives that fast, about 55-60 mph on the freeway. That's also using premium because he noticed that the computer says he can cruise futher than using unleaded plus.
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Week to week communiting on mostly highway I receive about 340-360 miles per tank, up to about 17.5 gallon fill up, so I know I can stretch it out a bit more and maybe carry it out to 375 miles per tank.
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highest i was able to get was 17 mpg. being in hawaii, not really much freeway and mostly city miles. however i was really really babying it. on average its usually around 15.8.... cant seem to figure it out
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That is not bad for city miles. I get 12 to 14 when I drive to work and back, about a 500 foot drop/rise in elevation (7,500 to 8,000 feet in elevation here) each way and city traffic here in Mexico City. This marks a change from my earlier posting of over two years ago, but I work in a different location now from back then.
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I've got 21.2 from day one. Few months ago I bump up the tire pressure from 34 to 36 in front and 32 to 34 on rear. Now I've got 21.4, cool!
I can have 260~280 miles per tank (90% freeway, 10% city).
Francis
99' RX (110k miles)
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Francis
99' RX (110k miles)
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Would you by chance be running the 235-70-16 size or something else other than stock with that psi?