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Originally Posted by JCL
The issue is that the final published number goes through so many adjustments that it loses any credibility as a test result, instead being a sort of poll of what the EPA thinks the number should probably be.
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Regardless of how it's arrived at, EPA figure is closer to real world than the ECE R101 result and therefore does a job better of informing consumers. That's all both figures are are intended to do. They not deigned to keep engineers happy!