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Old 07-25-2014, 10:14 PM   #40 (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 t vago View Post
I did a quick test with in-town and highway driving. I have to hook up an MPGuino to get reliably accurate numbers. The built-in trip computer indicates instantaneous fuel economy figures of about 28 MPG at 40 MPH, and 22 MPG while travelling at 75 MPH. For comparison, the truck got around 22 MPG instantaneous while in town, and about 19-20 MPG on the highway. ...

Driver's side mirror view

Those numbers and that picture tell the story well. So if the numbers hold when you get better instrumentation hooked-up you just gave yourself somewhere between a 10% or even 20% increase in FE. That would be pretty amazing.
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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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