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Originally Posted by tjts1
The window sticker on your 96 civic is based on the old EPA mileage test and totally irrelevant to this comparison. By the current standards your civic is rated at 26/33mpg. The 35mpg standard applies to an average for city and highway driving. Your 96 doesn't even come close to meeting 2016 CAFE requirement. It is not rated at 41mpg by any standard.
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Wrong. That 31 I quoted is the new, adjusted-for-2008 rating.
28/35 mpg.
Here's the reference for the 41 mpg cafe rating. The fourth Civic listed:
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CIVIC $ 515 (33 38 35) city/hwy/cmb window sticker, (37 49 41) CAFE, 97( 1.6L) / 4(FFS) FWD M5 OD
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And other years are here:
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/download.shtml
There are three ratings here:
The raw dyno test numbers, which are used for CAFE. (41 for my car)
The 1985-2007 adjusted numbers. (35 for my car)
The 2008+ numbers, which are adjusted twice from the actual test results. (31 for my car)