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Old 07-02-2019, 12:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
Team Honda
90 day: 66.42 mpg (US)

Black and Red - '00 Nashbar Custom built eBike
90 day: 3671.43 mpg (US)
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70 MPG US (3.3 L/100 km) challenge (non-hybrid gasoline and diesel cars)

I'm going to record a 70 MPG tank (someday). This is an invitation to anyone else to take up 70 mpg as a challenge, too. Score at least one 70 MPG tank or single run average anytime, year round, and you get inducted into the 70 MPG Club. There are vehicles on EM that have done much better than 70 mpg on a single tank, but only a few. And to my knowledge, only basjoos's "AerocivicLB" and funkhoss's "The Little Car" have ever achieved a Lifetime Average of 70 mpg or more. Their prize is community legend. For the rest of us, to commemorate our rare status, we will get digital prizes, such as being added to "The List of Winners" below.

THE LIST OF WINNERS (in no particular order):

1. FTA (Full Tank Average)

Lupo 3L --> 2L ('00 VW Lupo diesel)
PaleCivic (96 Civic DX)
His Benny ('06 Honda Insight, dehybridized)
PaleFit (08 Fit Sport)
Winter-beater-Metro (00 Chevy Metro)
BlackFly (98 Pontiac Firefly / Chevy Metro)
Mirage #2 (14 Mitsubishi Mirage SE)
Sport Coupe (92 Ford Tempo GL)
AerocivicLB (92 Civic CX)
The Little Car (00 Chevy Metro)
Nut Wagon (91 Civic Wagon DX)
Daox's Paseo (97 Toyota Paseo)
ecoDrudge (07 EU-spec Ford Fusion TDCi)
Even Fancier Metro ('14 Mitsubishi Mirage)
...others...?

2. SRA (Single Run Average)

Swarthy (14 Mitsubishi Mirage DE)
Black & Green (98 Honda Civic DX)
GreenTDI (11 Skoda Fabia Estate)
K-sight (00 Honda Insight, de-hybridized, with a K24 swap)
Smart Car Diesel ('06 Smart ForTwo Diesel 6MT)
Lupo 3L --> 2L ('00 VW Lupo diesel)

... others ...?

TWO PRIZES
Full Tank Average (FTA) gets this picture of a hat:


Get just a Single Run Average (SRA) of 70+MPG and your prize is this picture of a custom sticker:

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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.




Last edited by California98Civic; 07-11-2021 at 07:38 PM.. Reason: Add to the lists and added links to vehicles
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