The 03's and 04's do better than the new ones. I had an 04 Pilot with AWd and it would easily get 23mpg at 70 mph freeway. I traded it on an '07 and somewhere between the 04 and 07 they geared them down. My '07 will get 20-21 tops at the same speed. I've noticed when comparing the two model years my '04 was going 7mph faster at the same rpm as my '07. So.....spinning the engine about 10% faster is causing a loss of 10% fuel economy. Not sure if it can be correctly correlated that way but in my case it does.
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