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Old 05-29-2009, 06:31 PM   #26 (permalink)
theunchosen
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I don't know what your wife's car is but the Fit has a highway of 35, city of 28 and combined of 33.

With light eco-driving(low speed low accel, low AC loading, max tires pressure, maybe weight reductions) I would surmise you could pop 35 avg instead of 33 pretty easily. If you wanted to really go aero on it I suspect you could do a good bit better and the 35 already puts you 10 mpg ahead of your teg. Its pretty mpg friendly.

Its not an econo-box. . .but its very inexpensive(for 4 doors) and gets reasonable gas mileage(for 4 doors).

I just hate hybrids for the electrical involvement because it is so difficult to be certain that what you are tweaking does not influence something else down the line. Mechanical systems. . .well I can see what its touching and I can see what it does. Its alot harder to crack the ecu case plug up a laptop and then start taking shots at what the processor core is doing.
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