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MPG not so good

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#1 ·
I was wondering if anyone has had any issues with poor fuel economy. I have had my 2015 GLA 4matic for a few months. I work 114 miles from where I live and make the drive 9 times a month roughly. My fuel economy hasn't been that great. Mercedes says there is nothing wrong but it has gotten worse. My drive is mostly flat. Last time all Hwy I got 25 there and back 27 mpg. I drive it in economy at that is 99 and 88 percent.
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Tara
 

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Most cars sold in US are optimized to get best MPG around 65 MPH speed. I got my best record of 36MPG driving at that speed for 3 hours. When I drove around 70 to 80 MPG on highway, my average MPG drops back to 30 to 32 MPG.

This car has been the best MPG of all AWD cars I have ever owned. I had 5 different Subarus in the past. None of them ever past 25MPG in real world highway driving. Mostly around 20MPG. So, my GLA250 is night and day compared to those.
 
#43 ·
Gla180

Hi guys, just bought a GLA180 2018 model and for some reason the mileage thus not seem good mostly driven on comfort factory settings. Almost 600k a tank highway and street driving. Also how do you set it on eco as factory settings. Company can't change the settings at this moment.
Thanks ebs
 
#44 ·
Hi guys, just bought a GLA180 2018 model and for some reason the mileage thus not seem good mostly driven on comfort factory settings. Almost 600k a tank highway and street driving. Also how do you set it on eco as factory settings. Company can't change the settings at this moment.
Thanks ebs
Welcome to the GLA forum and congratulations on your new 180. As far as I know, you are not able to change the default Comfort driving mode on the American version 250, so very likely you are not able to do so for Eco with your 180, as your dealer suggested.

As you can tell, we have an international membership here with a variety of GLA derivatives. It would be useful for you to add your location, GLA model and year to your member profile. That will show under your member name in each post and be a handy reference for our other members when you post a question or add to discussion. You can do so from the User CP link on the upper right of most browsers.