Congrats on the purchase. Yes, it does seem from everyone's posted experiences that the car needs a 1,000-plus mile break in period before you start seeing those 40+ MPG tanks. Some of it is the car itself, some of it is you begin (either conciously or not) adjusting your driving habits to make the MPG meter fluctuate! I've only about 2,200 miles on my car so far, and I'm hitting the 45's and up on my freeway trips - most of my runs to work and home are around 49 now.

I'll echo JohnC's comments in that when I drive around the So. Cal. neighborhood running weekend errands, the trip meter shows me getting 34-37 MPG, which I think has to do with the car not getting fully warmed up and, of course, never getting into a real consistent cruising mode. As someone else has pointed out on the boards, keep resetting that Trip B odometer on every trip to measure your and your car's progress.

- J. Ron