Not getting Estimated MPG

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"Driving styles" keep coming up over and over again in this thread. Yet even if people are doing pure city driving, why are they not even reaching the city estimate? The OP is getting 25.0 mpg average in primarily highway driving in a car that is rated at 27mpg for pure city driving. You could assume that they're doing 120 mph in their highway driving, or that they spend most of their time on a drag strip. But a much more realistic guess is since most of the new Imprezas on Fuelly are not meeting the EPA estimates, that maybe the estimates are bogus.

"The EPA figures are only meaningful if your daily commute happens to exactly match the EPA test cycle." That is a misleading statement. The estimates are there as a realistic representation of what most drivers will experience. When the statistics show that certain vehicles don't reach the estimates for a large percentage of drivers, that means the estimates are wrong.

This is becoming all too common with certain vehicles and certain brands. It is out of the realm of "your mileage may vary." The "driving styles" argument is no more credible than Ford Fusion Hybrid MPG ratings when you are talking about conglomerated statistics of dozens or hundreds of cars and drivers.