Sales-Weighted Fleet Fuel Economy For April
A lot has changed in the auto industry in the three years since I started writing here at TTAC, and one of the more heartening developments has been the move towards ever greater transparency for all kinds of data, from sales breakouts to incentives to sales-weighted fuel economy. Though I’d like to think that TTAC played a role in helping push towards greater transparency and disclosure, the real heroes of this story are Hyundai (which has begun to release its sales-weighted fuel economy each month and is moving towards quarterly fleet sales breakouts) and TrueCar, which has possibly done more to put information in the hands of auto consumers than anyone else (TTAC included). TTAC thanks everyone who is helping push the industry towards ever more disclosure, and invites you to take advantage of these newly-available data points in order to better understand the ever-evolving face of the US auto industry. Here we present TrueCar’s TrueMPG data for April, which shows a .2 MPG improvement across the industry since April 2010.
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It'll be interesting to see how much Subaru jumps next year with the FB20/CVT combo Impreza forthcoming. Especially since their fleet share very similiar MPG numbers across the board. Dump the turbo models and the average would only jump a few MPG. Add a vehicle, which will sell more of since it will finally be competitive on this front, with at least 10 mpg increase. I guess I'll be interested, especially since Subaru's lineup usually doesn't have too many variables like larger companies.
How could Ford trucks be LESS than GM when Ford has all of those so-called ECO boost engines running around? Oh...that's right...they're not ECO at all...juts a V6 that gets V8 mileage.
How are Toyota's small car ratings so much higher than everyone else's? The Corolla may get amazing gas mileage in the real world, but its EPA ratings are nothing special.
It is interesting that fuel economy is an inverse of transaction price. If Hyundai could have GM's industry-highest transaction prices, at the expense of their current industry-leading mileage, I'm sure they'd take it.