salsaguy Posted July 7, 2013 Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 agreed which is why we need a full years worth of data to get a fuller picture.in my data analysis i can further Weed out those with less than xx number of fillups.since most agree 500 miles on a tank is pretty doable and if break-in time is about 2000-3000 miles minimum maybe we should also exclude those with less than 5 tanks per say. i could also plot how many months they have been on/added to fuelly.do we know when the first CMax for 2013 for USA was put on the lots/or do we know who owns the oldest cmax here on the forums by build date? was that July or Aug 2012?this was i can know when to cutoff for one years worth of data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salsaguy Posted July 7, 2013 Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 (edited) foto, that first one is very suspect since look at the name P.O.S., meaning Piece of $@&@ so i would expect that one to be a fraud trying to get the mpg numbers down on purpose. in my analysis i would also exclude any super high or super low numbers but also any suspicious names that could be bogus posts on Fuelly. the third link shown, with their 10% city driving (meaning 90% highway), we *should* expect to see low mpg numbers for them as we did in a recent thread called something like "1400 miles on the highway in the cmax". we know the cmax thrives in city driving but not so well at fast (65-85 mi/hr) and long driving over the 62 mph limit for EV mode in the C-max. Agreed on the need to "drill down" on the fuelly website to get rid of some of the chaff but there are still "issues". I went through the 100's under the 2013 CMax with "hybrids L4" designation looking for averages around 30mpg and lower. The majority of these were winter tanks and then the drivers quit entering data so their better summer tanks will never contribute to the national average. Folks like these: http://www.fuelly.com/driver/jbn/cmax http://www.fuelly.com/driver/nonni/cmax http://www.fuelly.com/driver/cmaxal/cmax Oh well....... Edited July 7, 2013 by salsaguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth7721 Posted July 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 Where in Florida are you, and what kind of driving are you doing? I'm in Orlando and drive mostly on the highway. I'd be happy to hit the 500 mile club. I live about 4 hours southwest of Orlando. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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