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Originally Posted by Old Tele man
Welcome to the eco-zoo...what baseline MPG numbers have you found for the vehicle?
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After purchasing the vehicle I drove the Insight from Odessa, TX to Lubbock, TX, about 140 miles and averaged 44.1 MPG. Granted, this was with an EGR-sick engine, a dead IMA no underbody panels installed and with a 73 mph trip average with a peak of about 83mph. My buddy was nice enough to go to Odessa with me, so I wanted to haul ass back to Lubbock so that I didn’t burn his entire Saturday. The thing is a stone and I had to floor it to attempt to maintain 80mph for about half the trip.
I’m hoping to improve significantly upon my first “tankful”. I’ve travelled about 280 miles on my present tankful and my gas gauge registers about one segment above the half tank marker. Am I looking at about a 50mpg average so far? I’m going to resist the temptation to fill it up before it’s nearly empty because there’s a place in town that sells ethanol-free gas and want to see how the Insight likes it, so getting rid of as much of the ethanol-tainted gas as possible is imperative. My unscientific experience with a ’94 Honda CX (my Dad’s car, he’s got a ’94 VX too!) is that that change alone is worth a two mpg jump, from 35 to 37 and I did achieve a single tankful personal record of 40.5 with the CX with the help of 100% gas