You don't need to know anything about any of that stuff to figure out fuel mileage. All you need to do fill up the gas tank, record how many miles you drive after filling up (or just set your trip odometer to '0' when you fill up) and a gas pump that reads gallons dispensed when you refill the tank (which they all do). Divide the miles you traveled by the gallons of gas you had to add to fill the tank back up to full and you've got miles per gallon. It's usually best to average the mileage of 3 tanks or so to get a more accurate idea of your fuel economy.
If you want to know the car's EPA rated fuel economy, you could go to fueleconomy.gov and look it up. It was rated at 25 city / 34 highway. Link below.
4 cylinder and 4 speed, means that it is 4 cylinder engine coupled to a 4 speed transmission. The 4 cylinder and 4 cycle,means a 4 cylinder 4 stroke ( versus 2 stroke/2 cycle) engine. The stroke/ cycle is referring to engine operation design.
Manuals are about care and service as well as instructions and information as to some technical aspects of the car. A 2003 Toyota Corolla delivers miles per gallon depending on the terrain, the speed the car is operated, the mechanical condition of the car and the traffic. The term, miles per gallon, can be replaced with an acronym, MPG. All acronyms must be capitalized. Please do so. Sentences, you wrote using commas between sentences when periods are required. Go to a specific gas station to a specific pump and notice the direction you use. Fill the car to the automatic fill stop. Note the miles on the car. Drive it until half the tank is depleted. Return to the same gas station, same pump, same direction and about the same time of day. Fill the car up to the same automatic fill stop. Notice the amount of gas. Notice the miles. Subtract the miles from the first refuel time. Divide the miles by the gallons. For example, 200 miles and 10 gallons means 20 MPG. 200 miles and 7.5 gallons is 26.6 MPG. Very simple. This is all online. All you had to do was to Google as to how to determine MPG. Google four cylinder engines and Google as to the four cycles of the engine. They are: Intake, Compression, Power and Exhaust. Have fun.
All modern automobile engines are four cycle engines. (Two cycle engines still show up in chain saws and weed wackers.)
"Four speed" refers to the transmission. I don't know what transmissions were available on the 2003 Corolla, but might guess that you had a choice between a four speed automatic transmission, and a five speed manual transmission.
I hope that helps.
You can try to look up vehicle specs, maybe on kbb or edumnds? Cycle has to do with the way the engine works, car engines are four cycle, some lawn mowers, chain saws, etc are 2 cycle.
When they say 4cyl that means 4 cylinder. That car did not have a 6 cylinder option available so they all are 4 cylinder. The transmission options are manual and automatic.
The best way to figure your mileage is to full up the tank normally, don't top it off, that is not good anyway.
Write down the odometer reading, drive till down to below 1/2 tank, fill up, write down gallons of gas used and odometer. Subtract second reading from first = miles driven. Miles driven/gallons = actual mpg.
Keep a little notebook in the glove box, do this every and then and you can see the actual MPG you are getting.
I am trying to figure out the mpg of my 2003 Corolla LE but the manual doesn't have an mpg, well I can't find it, and it says the Engine is a 4 cylinder in line, 4 cycle. However most online say 4 cyl and 4 speed.
