gas mileage

[Zogboy]

My first fill up
it took 7 gals I guess the guage is not calibrated correctly, is that fixable?
Anyhow I went 250 miles on that 7 gallons is that about right for this car?
1/2 freeway at 70 mph and 1/2 city driving stop and go.
1996 1.3 5 speed power steering and booster brakes.

looks like 35 mpg , can this car get more?

[MatLax]

I get something like 10 liters by 100km in the city and that's considering my tank is leaking a lot (converted it's only 23.5mpg... I gess I must change some stuff in my car hey?) and 5.8 on the highway (40mpg) and that's on a 3 banger... HELP!!! what can I change for my mpg to get better? I already have my timing belt, my whole exhaust system and my brakes so mpg will come later any way =P Also, when I changed my spark plugs, they were all black, what could it be?

"looks like 35 mpg , can this car get more?"

I know someone on the www.teamswift.net forum said that by changing his cams for the ones superfl1 makes he got 5 more mpg and a lot of power added at the same time but I'm not shure he makes cams for 1.3L...

[MatLax]

Oh yeah, also, when the gauge reach the red line, you still have about 10 liters inside the tank so it's normal you coul only fill it with 7 gallons

[Mike_Van]

My '96 1.0 3-cyl (145k) gets only a little better: 37-39 MPG mixed city/highway. The MPG does not really seem to improve when I baby it (light right foot, shift by ~3,000 RPM).

When I fill up, my fuel guage is fairly close to Empty with about 250 miles on the trip ODO, yet only about 6 or 6.5 gallons fit in the (10 gal) tank.