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hayden55 · 12-06-2016, 12:27 AM

Well the motor started going out on the 96 civic and then basically everything else started failing faster than I could fix it so I've sold the green *******. Flew Wed from Memphis to Akron to pick up a 2010 Prius I. Has a lot of everything except leather, touch screen, moonroof, but who needs that. It has all the gadgets anyways and its a nice no NVH car, basically exactly the opposite of the Honda. So the car gets great gas mileage around town, but at 70mph it only gets 39.1mpg over 700mi all interstate (45F). The EPA rating is 52/48! What am I doing wrong?
Car has Cooper cs3's in the stock size inflated to 55psi and all the fluids are fine.

12-06-2016, 12:27 AM	#1 (permalink)
hayden55 Master EcoModder Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: USA Posts: 1,172 Sport Utility Prius - '10 Toyota Prius II 90 day: 52.98 mpg (US) 300k Sequoia 4WD - '01 Toyota Sequoia Limited 4wd 90 day: 20.19 mpg (US) Thanks: 352 Thanked 268 Times in 215 Posts	Gave in... Bought a prius! Well the motor started going out on the 96 civic and then basically everything else started failing faster than I could fix it so I've sold the green *******. Flew Wed from Memphis to Akron to pick up a 2010 Prius I. Has a lot of everything except leather, touch screen, moonroof, but who needs that. It has all the gadgets anyways and its a nice no NVH car, basically exactly the opposite of the Honda. So the car gets great gas mileage around town, but at 70mph it only gets 39.1mpg over 700mi all interstate (45F). The EPA rating is 52/48! What am I doing wrong? Car has Cooper cs3's in the stock size inflated to 55psi and all the fluids are fine. __________________ "I feel like the bad decisions come into play when you trade too much of your time for money paying for things you can't really afford."