Do new cars still have break-in periods?
Posted on:: July 24th, 2006
We’ve been through two tanks of gas with our new Toyota Yaris, and it’s getting 24 mpg in the city instead of the rated 34. We haven’t done enough highway driving to know if it’s going to get near to the 40 mpg the sticker promised us. Do new cars still have break in periods, or is our disappointment likely to be perpetual? (FWIW, it’s a manual shift.) [Tags: cars yaris]
Later that day: I just did 120 miles on the highway on 3.1 gallons of gas, so highway efficiency is as rated.
