fuel economy of the R

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Post-Hondata tune running baseline 93 I’m showing 33-34 mpg on my dash. Normally I would show 30ish on my dash getting Fuelly calculated 28-29mpg

This is a solid increase with the baseline flash!! I’ll report back when I have a few tanks through it.
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Fuel is weight. Weight makes for slow...
Same size as the fuel capacity (12.4 gal) of the more pedestrian Civic models, though. In other words, Honda didn’t shrink the fuel tank specifically for the CTR for performance reasons. The range wouldn’t be so bad at 35-ish mpg combined of the other Civic models.
 

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Same size as the fuel capacity (12.4 gal) of the more pedestrian Civic models, though. In other words, Honda didn’t shrink the fuel tank specifically for the CTR for performance reasons. The range wouldn’t be so bad at 35-ish mpg combined of the other Civic models.
That was kinda my point. If Honda made the CTR tank bigger to increase miles per tank it would have added weight to the car. Performance cars do have some sacrifices in the pursuit of said performance.
 


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if it had like 5 more gallons, it would've been great. It's not going to add that much weight.
or if it had an extended range fuel tank option like the porsche GT cars it'd be cool. I know it's in a totally different price bracket though.

I don't daily the car but if I did, it would be very inconvenient to have to fill up in the middle of the week just to get to work.
 

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I have no idea how you all are getting into the 30's I'm stock on properly inflated summers and I'm at 23.5 MPG on 93 (760miles atm). I've been breaking the car in so I have not even redlined the car I do ~85% highway driving too.
 

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You said it yourself. It's because you are breaking the engine in- that's why your fuel economy is suffering. All engines suffer worse fuel economy for the first ~1000 miles. It should start improving.
 

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Is it correct to assume you can get 30+ MPG when cruising on the highway in top gear?
 

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This is from last fall, when I really made an effort to see just what this could do for mileage. Local driving, mostly surface streets; some expressway, no speed above 65 mph; 91 non-oxygenated fuel.

Normally, I get around 29 mph from the car computer.

YMMV!

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Are you doing lots of long distance driving or only resetting your Trip A between fillips? I wish my range said 395.

I've been using the trip computer like this:

Trip A would be for the actual drive (reset with every startup)
Trip B for the total amount driven resulting in combined MPG (reset between fillups) * some owners i talk to use trip B to track mileage between oilchanges

But i guess the end result is the same? As long as we're enjoying our cars no matter how many times we fill up?? Cheers :beer:
 


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4K miles in, 98% highway, averaging a calculated 25.4 mpg.

Possible factors for the suck: Wider, stickier tires ; typically load of 350 lbs or so of wheels, tires and track gear, and wintertime gas blend. I would bet an empty car on stock tires using summertime gas should see low 30s easily.
 

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70/30 highway to city driving, still in break in period with 300 miles on the odo and I'm averaging 32.0 mpg. Coming from a 16' Mustang GT doing 19 mpg, I welcome the change, especially with these gas prices in California.
 

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Up to 27,000 miles on the vehicle now... Last tank with fuelly was 30.1 MPG. Only about a 1/4 of that was highway miles... Mostly my normal michigan "roads" aka pothole birth places. I still enjoy ripping it once in awhile but it doesn't seem to adjust the Em-pah-gahs to much. This car rocks with fuel consumption.

I never trust the car computer... says I'm doing 33.1+ mpg when really it's more like 29.8-30.2
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