Fuel economy mpg

[kered424]

I drove from Dallas to Houston yesterday and just wanted to share my impressive fuel economy: 43.8 mpg!!! My car is the EX trim, so it's only rated at 41 mpg on the highway. Glad to see that they didn't overestimate the mpg to sell cars. I used adaptive cruise for most of my drive set at 75 mph and only used half a tank of gas.

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[kered424]

I did my return trip today and got 44.4mpg (same settings - ACC set at 75mph). At the beginning of my drive, for the first 40 miles or so, before I turned on cruise control, I was able to get 47+ mpg by being gentle on the gas pedal. I'm very impressed.

 

[Snoopyslr]

I bought my car because of the gas mileage. I drive 100 miles a day and I'm getting 40mpg combined (85%hwy/15%cty). These cars are amazing on gas. 65mph seems to be the MPG sweet spot on my car. Reseting the trip on the expressway once I get to speed and driving strictly on cruise, I get 57mpg going 65mph over 40 miles of expressway driving.

 

[xcivicx]

from phoenix to los angeles at the posted speed limit + the little extra they give you, somewhere over 42mpg. there are several long grades along the way. so with even with long periods of 75-79mph (in AZ) and making the occasional pass along with slow downs even if it were only 40mpg it would be damn impressive . me thinks. i found that keeping it under 75 gets you around 40mpg get down to 70mph and the mpg is around 45 now it sounds like 65mph is what to try to hold it down to. my figures come from the odo and the gallons from the pump method.

 

[Snoopyslr]

My combined numbers are from mileage/gallon as well. Obviously the insane hwy mileage I posted was from on board.

 

[gurlie_j_gurl]

Just to be clear, what the car computer produces as a read out of your "Mpg's" are not 100% valid. If you fill up and complete the calculations... The live results would be vastly different.

Trip total/gal on fill up=MPG

My live results:

Tank 1 262.8 fill up 7.856 gal = 33.45mpg (no Econ with fill past 1st click)
Tank 2 281.0 fill up 8.296 gal = 33.87mpg (no Econ with fill past 1st click)
Tank 3 295.4 fill up 8.323 gal = 35.49mpg (no Econ with fill past 1st click)
Tank 4 377.3 fill up 11.123 gal = 33.92mpg (ran it past the low fuel light) (no Econ with fill past 1st click)
Tank 5 305.8 fill up 8.917 gal = 34.02mpg (no Econ with fill past 1st click)
Tank 6 330.1 fill up 9.273 gal = 35.597mpg (Econ and no fill past click)

Each tank I have filled up prematurely, just for convenience with my commute.

 

[Snoopyslr]

I have been told not to fill up past the 1st click. The excess overfill may saturate your emissions control charcoal canister.
As a result your car will throw the emissions fail code, and they are expensive to replace.

I don't fill up past the pump shut off because I get a small splash back out the neck when it stops. Don't want to make any more of a mess

 

[Brettjod]

I have an LX and I'm getting 6.6L/100km or 35 mpg US on my trips to and from work. 80 km round trip with a few big hills and lots of speed changes so I think that's fairly decent. Also mixed with a bit of city driving.

 

[jessgofffff]

My daily commute is pretty mixed between city and highway, a little more towards the city, and I'm getting 37 mpg average right now. I don't keep the light green all the time, either, so if I drove a little more efficiently I'm sure I'd be getting even better. I'm impressed, especially since I've only had to go to the gas station once this week, and I do a lot of driving.

 

[j_illang]

I do stop and go city (stopping frequently at lights) 25 km a day. Recently I got 480 km out of my full tank, which I believe is not up to par. The tank is 47L (past click like twice, will stop after reading above warning), my second pump was about 42L. So that means, I used likely 45L to get 480 km.

Honda website says: 7.6 / 5.5 / 6.7 for the touring on the basis of (City/Hwy/Combined) = https://www.honda.ca/civic_sedan/specs

So I am getting 8.5L per 100 km or 30 mpg (http://www.calculatenow.biz/convers...=km&fc=&ratio=lp100k&submit=Convert#converter). For the most part I was on econ mode. I did not drive aggressively, except a few times where "I booted it" just to feel the turbo!!

EDIT:

Now I think of it, there were two cases when I was stuck in real stop and go traffic for 15 mins. Maybe that screwed up my mileage.

 

[dick w]

Maybe that screwed up my mileage.

Plus it's winter. That always drops mileage considerably for a bunch of reasons.

 

[87Si89Base16EXT]

Plus it's winter. That always drops mileage considerably for a bunch of reasons.

I love how the man in HI brings up winter ... hahaha!

But true. I'm getting 37-39 when it's in the 20's or below but 40-42 when it's 40+ degrees F. And no warming the car up, so there's no extra idling.

 

[dick w]

I love how the man in HI brings up winter ...

Lived in Denver for 56 years. I get winter. It just doesn't amuse me anymore.

 

[CE1_nobling]

Mixed driving 60hwy/40city last tank 35.9 MPG

 

[goflyakuite]

Lived in Denver for 56 years. I get winter. It just doesn't amuse me anymore.

West Michigan here. 12 inches expected over the next two days.... I'm no longer amused. Several more years before I plan to move South.

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