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Originally Posted by Xist
Let's take the perfect car: A 2000 Civic HX manual. What would it take to make that car get 54 MPG? I honestly do not know, but I averaged 44 MPG on a teenage car with 200,000 miles. We have members getting that.
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Honda cannot take a 2000 car and make it get 54 mpg. Crash safety standards, air pollution, squirming stylists.
But they did take the current Civic, pulled the gearbox, put nothing back there, then added a motor, generator and battery and called it Insight.
Because, you know, Insight.
And it easily does 54 mpg and if you drive it like you don't give * about it you still get 45 mpg.
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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 0.2 Gmeter or 0.13 Mmile.
For confirmation go to people just like you.
For education go to people unlike yourself.