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I think I can help shine some light on this.
Firstly , 8.9litres/100km = about 25mpg for our American neighbors.
The poor mileage seems to be due to several things.
1. It's a new car, has to break in bla bla bla
2. It's winter. this causes a dive in mpg because
a) Winter Tires
b) have to let the car start and run for a minute
c) even after warming the car and we start to drive it, takes time for the transmission etc.. to warm up, further taking away from gas effeciency
d) they put in anti freeze additives into the gas during the winter, and this seems to rob a few mpg's.
Example, I purchased my 2007 Sentra in July. By the third gas tank, I was getting about 620km/42 litres. This was about 70hwy/30city, and drive at 120km/h on the highway (my sentra seems to get the best mpg around 108km/h)
Now that it is winter (winter tires, warming up the car etc..) I am lucky to get 550km for 42litres, usually 530-550km. It seems that the cold robs gas mileage a lot with the cvt's.
My mother's friend bought a Versa about 5 months before I bought my Sentra, and I know she said she gets over 600km/tank and costs about $45 to fill up (that was at $1/litre), and she does a lot more city driving.
Hope that helps.
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