About Car Real Test
Car Real Test shows one page for each car model and year. Each page has the mileage the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency measured, a fuel-cost calculator, the class rank, the nearest rivals, every tested version, the safety record and the recalls on file.
Car Real Test does not test cars. The mileage and fuel-cost numbers are the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's own test results, and the crash-test stars, owner complaints and recalls are the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's records. Every number is copied from a public government file and written onto the page by a program; nothing on a page is a road test by us, and no page tells you which car to buy.
What each page adds is arithmetic on those files: your own fuel bill, the rank among cars of the same class and year, and the five-year fuel-cost gap to the nearest rivals.
An independent website
Car Real Test is an independent website. It is not connected to any car maker, dealer or government agency. The site is published under its own name.
How the pages are made
The pages are built from the files listed on Where our numbers come from. A program reads those files and works out the costs, the ranks and the comparisons you see on each page.
How often the data is refreshed
The data is refreshed when the agencies publish new files. The dates on each page show the data used: the EPA file is dated 2026-11-04 and this build was made on 2026-11-14.
How to reach us
Write to contact@carrealtest.com. See the contact page for what to include.
Mileage and fuel cost: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, fueleconomy.gov vehicle file (file dated 2026-11-04). Your own mileage depends on how and where you drive. Where our numbers come from.