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Old 12-14-2011, 12:38 PM   #11 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
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Okay. This is way-cool. But are these claims all believable? Specific claims like this from another modder or from someone hawking a product on this site we would all rightly question. What about with Chevy? How do they arrive at these figures? Recently Ford claimed better aero for one of its vehicles than, I think, the Prius, but their Cd number for the Prius was different than Toyota's (higher, surprise surprise). Such variation raises the question of the "objectivity" of industry self-reporting of these results and how they may be manipulated for marketing, no?

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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.




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