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Originally Posted by vskid3
With a couple aero mods I could easily hit 45MPG hwy with the current engine, but city mileage takes technique to improve
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I am new to posting on this forum, after lurking some weeks. I drive a 1998 Civic DX Coupe and have for years monitored by milage measuring without a guage, tank to tank. I agree completely that the hypermiling techniques for city driving require reasonably light traffic to work well. I began modifying the car recently, creating a simple WAI, taking 100lbs out in stuff, spare tire, and rear seats, and over-inflating the tires by 4psi (to 48psi). Those mods, combined with seriously devoted hypermiling, yielded 44-46 MPG combined hwy/city on my commute, which I drove before and after the "test" using the exact same route, the same techniques, same time of day in basically the same weather (though, again, I have no mileage guage). I think you can get more out of your DX than you might currently think. Though, I guess, it would take driving like grandpa (like me!).