just remember that different countries have different tests, and that US Gallons aren't really used outside of the US (Imperial Gallons most everywhere else)...
US 2005 EPA ratings are 60MPG city, 51MPG highway, 55MPG combined. For
comparison units, 3.9l/100km or 72MPG Imperial city, 4.6l/100km or 61MPG
Imperial highway, 4.2l/100km or 66MPG Imperial combined.
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/20934.shtml
Canada 2005 OEE ratings are 71MPG city, 67MPG highway, but that's Imperial
gallons. The ratings are also listed as 4.0l/100km city and 4.2l/100km
highway.
http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/transportation/p ... s-2005.pdf
UK 2005 VCA ratings are 56.5MPG urban (cold), 67.3MPG extra urban, and
65.7MPG combined, again Imperial gallons. Alternately that's 5.0l/100km
urban (cold), 4.2l/100km extra urban, and 4.3l/100km combined.
http://www.vcacarfueldata.org.uk/search ... p?id=10982
and for completeness: Japan 2005 using the 10-15 cycle is (if my Japanese translation is right)
35.5km/l or 33.0km/l depending on option grade. That's 2.8l/100km or 83US
MPG or 100 Imperial MPG, and 3.0l/100km or 77 US MPG or 93.2 Imperial MPG.
I do note a OnMouseOver note that's something about 30.0km/l though...
http://toyota.jp/prius/spec/spec/index.html
Not even the US EPA test cycles match what typical US drivers do... The tests were developed in the 1970s, with some mathematical downward multiplication factors added to the final results in the 1980s, and hasn't been touched since...
http://www.bluewaternetwork.org/reports ... ehood2.pdf
"FUEL ECONOMY FALSEHOODS: How government misrepresentation of fuel
economy hinders efforts to reduce global warming and US dependence on
foreign oil" by the Bluewater Network, 2002