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Old 10-13-2015, 05:19 PM   #49 (permalink)
Baltothewolf
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Winsight - '00 Honda Insight
90 day: 56.69 mpg (US)

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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
Average 71.2 mpg over the close to 140K miles I've owned it. Much of that crossing the Sierra Nevada, or climbing into them. (I live just at the eastern base.) Not much time spent in city driving. And as I said, it's not that I accelerate so briskly - maybe half throttle, with a bit of assist for a few seconds - it's that just about everything else out there is either a) slow; or b) driven by people with the reaction time of a Brontosaurus.
Oh that makes sense. I drive about 20-25% of my tank city. I'm getting 69.2 this tank, with like 50 ish of the last 200 miles being city. It really kills me mileage wise.
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