Manuals can be fuel efficient or worse than automatics..It all depends on the driver. Being active members of this forum and thus hard core car enthusiasts, I'm sure all of us take our cars to the red line. In autos we press on the pedal as hard as we can and in manuals we change gears when we reach the red line. And we can't control ourselves. We're not weed smoking hippie environmentalists (yes, that 'green world' disease is starting to infect our country too) or old men who don't drive above 40 km/hr. Everyone of you is a bad reference for accurate mileage. You want to calculate your mileage, ask your grandfather to drive your car for a few days (my grandfather gets 10.7km/l from his 2005 maual vti - I used to get 7-8 km/l from my manual 2002 vti)
to conclude... If you're not getting a good mileage from your car you're not a weed smoking environmentalist or an old man, and are a proper hard core car enthusiast with petrol in your veins
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