1st Tank of Gas!

I can't recall what my very first tank mileage was, but I took a trip of 2800 miles when my car was only a week old, and didn't reset the average mpg until finishing that, and I got 42.0 in that first 3000 miles. That was in late December/early January driving between western Montana and eastern Minnesota, so very cold. Temps varied quite a bit, between the 40s and the single digits. I'd say that mpgs in the low 40s is pretty typical, and if you're doing short trips that tends to pull the average down a bit. But yes, definitely, now that the weather is warming up things are getting better (in more ways than one!!) and my current tank is averaging almost 51mpg. My car has about 4500 miles on the odo at this point.