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Yesterday I went on the first road trip since I had the lean burn engine installed in my car last fall. I went from Greenwood, SC to Florence, SC via I-26/I-20. I was traveling at the same speed as the bulk of the traffic, so the rural interstate portions were driven at 75 to 80 mph and the urban portions at 65 to 70mph. Drove the whole way in lean burn except for when climbing the hills. The SuperMId showed 62mpg on the way down with temps ranging from the 30's (scraped frost that morning) to 60 degree F. Got 60mpg on the way back through temps in the 60's with 79mph as the target speed. When I gassed up I got 65.6mpg, but that included about 100 miles of local driving. Not bad for a 19 year old non-hybrid car. I don't know of any new car that could match that mileage at those speeds or any Honda that can easily maintain lean burn at 80mph.
Whenever I go from driving the Aerocivic to driving a normal car, it feels like I'm driving a boat since none of them come anywhere close to coasting as well as the aerocivic. You let out the clutch and cut power on a normal car at highway speed and they immediately start slowing down. You do the same on the aerocivic and it just keeps on going and going with only a very slow decay in speed.
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