DarrylS

Hey, thanks to all who replied. Well, at least that's clarified a few things for me - if my wife wants to save fuel, she'll have to drive further. :D Have a great week!

Hi all, My first post here ... how's it going? My wife has a 2000 Corolla Ascent auto with about 138000 kilometres on the clock. We bought it a couple of months back hoping to get decent fuel economy out of it, but we're consistently getting 10 to 11 L/100km. We had it serviced a few weeks back, and we told our mechanic about the problem. He did a regular service, but he could not find a problem. After going for a few weeks, I noticed that my wife had left the overdrive button on, which I thought would be causing the fuel economy problem (do people notice a difference with that??). However, we turned the overdrive off, and it looks like we're still burning through the fuel at the same rate. Fuel type used is always regular unleaded (not 10% ethanol). Driving is almost entirely in the city - short trips down to the shops and that's about it. I know this is not ideal, but that's all my wife needs it for. What economy are most people getting with city driving with the AE112 Corolla? Any thoughts on what could be causing this? Thanks for your help.