do you take a tax deduction for your mileage? in most states 50 miles is seen as being an unreasonable distance to drive to work, so you can take the standard deduction per mile for mileage, now I'm not saying that driving great distances to work is anything that I would want to suport at all, but I know that I did it for a number of years and it really helped to knock my taxable income down.
Over the years to make cars ride softer and be able to corner at higher speeds they have made wider and wider tires standard, check on what the next narrower size might be next time you need to replace the tires you have, then pump them up to the max side wall presure, between those two changes you should see a noticeable increase in mileage.
A newer Corolla like you have is already designed pretty well, and if taken care of should continue to operate at it's peek, even with that doing a tune up never seems to hurt, synthetic fluids, like with an automatic, synthetic tranny fluid might make a big differince.
it sounds like you have a good rout that alows you to drive at lower speeds as it is, but getting a scangauge should help give you some solid information on how you drive affects your milage.
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