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Fuel Economy Ratings for the Saturn S-Series |
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Written by John Comeskey
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
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Recently, I had a discussion at the SPS Forums with Fastricoh21 about fuel economy in his 98 SC2. In the course of the discussion, I tried to cite the EPA fuel economy standards and realized a couple of things: - Even though I used to know the EPA fuel economy ratings by heart back in the day, my old fading memory could not recall them accurately anymore.
- A few years ago, the EPA revised the entire rating system to be more accurate. As a result, the old ratings that I once knew were overstated. The revised standards resulted in lower fuel economy ratings across the board.
So I decided to create this new chart of S Series fuel economy ratings based upon current data available at http://www.fueleconomy.gov.
Model Year
| SOHC manual trans | SOHC auto trans | DOHC manual trans | DOHC auto trans |
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| 1991 | 23/34 | 23/32 | 21/31 | 21/29 | | 1992 | 24/35 | 23/32 | 21/30 | 21/29 | | 1993 | 24/33 | 23/33 | 21/32 | 21/30 | 1994
| 24/34 | 23/32 | 22/31 | 21/29 | 1995
| 24/36 | 23/33 | 22/32 | 21/31 | 1996
| 25/36 | 23/33 | 22/32 | 21/31 | 1997
| 24/36 | 23/33 | 23/33 | 21/31 | 1998
| 24/36 | 23/34 | 23/33 | 21/31 | 1999
| 25/36 | 23/34 | 23/33 | 22/32 | 2000
| 25/36 | 23/34 | 23/34 | 22/32 | 2001
| 25/36 | 24/34 | 23/34 | 22/32 | 2002
| 25/36 | 24/34 | 23/34 | 22/32 |
Note: For the sake of simplicity, I only used data for the sedan (SL) models. Because of tire spec and curb weight differences, there may be slight differences for the coupe (SC) and wagon (SW) models. Either way, this chart should put you in the 'ballpark'. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 June 2008 )
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