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Me and my wife recently bought a 2014 Fusion hybrid. We had a 2011 Dodge Challenger SRT8 that we loved and considering what it was, it got pretty good gas milage. However, feeding a hungry 392 CID engine does require a little more fuel than we liked.(16MPG/average) Plus, when you have that kind of power on tap, it's hard not to accelerate faster and brake harder and it's kind of a mental game! Anyway, we traded in our hot rod for what I hoped would about triple our gas milage. We bought the car about two weeks ago with 3 miles on it and the computer averages around 35-38 MPG which I haven't been crazy about, but ok with. We have really changed our driving styles with much easier acceleration, more coasting, easy brakeing, and it hasn't really seemed to help much? The last tank we just checked our milage and even though the computer said 35 MPG average, we only got 31 MPG real world numbers? That's double what we were getting but from what I have seen on here, many people are getting 40+ which I would be perfectly happy with but 31 is really disappointing:( Anyone else having issues getting the awesome numbers people seem to be able to get. By the way, we live in a fairly flat terrain and most of the milage on the last tank was in town driving which is where I figured the hybrid would really shine. Ed-