welcome to the forum,ive moved your post. the better half's smax was terrible,where as mine is a lot better. the difference is about 85k miles. :rolleyes: im thinking as your mileage increases the mpg will get better? i can get high 30s around town in mine her's was something like late 20s to early 30s. saying that her vw tiguan already is getting high 30s around town. B)