Because if the gas light came on when you run out of gas it's purpose would be defeated. Well, I'm sure that there are plenty of dumbases out there that would wonder why their car died with the needle burried below the E, but still....ESPER wrote:According to the manual it says 17 gallons. Now just the other day i drove the car finally until the gas light came on (since usually i just re fill when half empty) so when i went to fill it up all the way it only filled up to barely 12 gallons!! why??