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Originally Posted by aerohead
Daox,were they hypermiling,or just driving down the highway at a reasonable speed,say,100 km/h ?
Honda has extremely good quality control from car to car,and on coast-to coast runs with
fleets' of cars,they return virtually 'identical' performance.
It's hard for me to wrap my brain around a 30-40 + mpg variance between like vehicles.
If that's what they can do,it's great,just hard to explain and to design around.
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Hi Aerohead,
Daox is correct. Although even with the under-body smoothing panels, I have not gotten over 100 mpg during "normal" driving.
The best I got with the car at 55 mph, was 87 mpg on a 95°F day with my Mom and I in the car, over a stretch of 150 miles or so, on reasonably flat roads.
When hypermiling to work, the best on a 33 mile loop was 117 mpg, again on a 95°F day.
So, will I get over 100 mpg with the extended tail? We shall see, but I would expect a gain like Metro's.
Jim.