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Originally Posted by Ecky
4L/100km (58mpg) is not really all that hard in a Civic Hybrid. 
Driving at constant speed, on level ground, in good weather, with a grille block, air dam, tires @ 50psi, otherwise stock. |
Yeah.
Well I can do 3.1 l/100 km on a trip if conditions are right in my Insight.
2.5 over prolonged stretches at 38 mph.
But there's cold starts, winters, bad weather, traffic jams, unfavourable trips.
So my lifetime FE is worse than Marco's lifetime FE of 4.0 l/100 km...!
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2011 Honda Insight + HID, LEDs, tiny PV panel, extra brake pad return springs, neutral wheel alignment, 44/42 PSI (air), PHEV light (inop), tightened wheel nut.
  lifetime FE over 0.24 Gigameter or 0.15 Megamile.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw
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