Who is BS'ing who?

My Valiant ('65, stock 225, t-flite) can get over 24 MPG, no BS.

Notice I said "can get". No way does it get that kind of mileage puttering around in traffic. I checked it on a trip where I mostly cruised at about 55mph on mostly flat terrain. I used yhe round trip figure to take wind direction and overall uphill/downhill out of the picture.

That's about the ideal driving conditions for MPG, which is what I use for comparison. If I just figured the mileage for any given tankful, it might be 20 or it might be 10; just because driving conditions vary so much.

My mother bought a 2000 Buick Century new. Not long after, she thought she'd see what kind of mileage it got. She was quite surprised and disgussted to come up with something like 14 MPG! "OK", I said, "but how much stop and go traffic, idling, sitting in Mickey D's drive-thru, etc. didja do that week?" She checked it again on a highway trip and came up with almost 29 MPG!

Use the "ideal" figure to comepare one car to another, but don't expect to get that all the time.;)