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Old 10-28-2014, 03:56 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Location: 1000 Islands, Ontario, Canada
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Blackfly - '98 Geo Metro
Team Metro
Last 3: 70.09 mpg (US)

MPGiata - '90 Mazda Miata
90 day: 52.71 mpg (US)

Even Fancier Metro - '14 Mitsubishi Mirage top spec
90 day: 70.75 mpg (US)

Appliance car - '14 Mitsubishi Mirage ES (base)
90 day: 52.48 mpg (US)
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Welcome, bluesteel93!

Congrats on the VX find.

Every time one of you guys gets one, I get wistful for one... but they're long gone from around here (rust belt). Lean burn suits my typical driving patterns perfectly (mostly secondary highway cruising at moderate speeds).

The closest I ever got to a VX (not counting my 2k Insight of course) was buying a set of wheels for my old Accord...



Sadly I couldn't swap the wheels over to the Firefly (lug pattern). Photoshop was the closest I got, because my machinist friend said there wasn't enough meat in them to make a second set of holes.

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Mitsu mods: 70 MPG in my ecomodded, dirt cheap, 3-cylinder Mirage.
Ecodriving test: Manual vs. automatic transmission MPG showdown



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