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Old 05-31-2014, 09:07 PM   #6 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
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90 day: 66.42 mpg (US)

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Originally Posted by sarguy01 View Post
... my good buddy that bought a 2014 F-150 Ecoboost (loaded, really really nice truck) just told me he finally went to the city dump for the first time in it after a year of owing it. One of the reasons he sold himself on a $49,000 truck that gets 14.5 mpg is so he could make dump runs since he worked on the house so much. He commutes in it and put 20,000 miles on it in the first year.
Ouch! That really hurts financially. Gotta be careful. I use the civic for hauling firewood, taking cuttings to the dump, and moving whatever. To be honest, my little enclosed light duty pickup is really limited, but not as limited as people imagine. It serves my needs.
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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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