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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
If I must drive an automatic, I really do prefer a CVT (for reasons of economy). The last one I drove was in a Mirage (Space Star in Germany), and I was genuinely surprised & pleased how it was designed & programmed to aggressively pursue good fuel economy.
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That's exactly the same with me, I really enjoy driving CVT.
And I remember how amazed I was, when I was the first time a passenger of a Toyota Prius in 2012. Everytime the driver floored it, the car went from zero to over 100kph wihtout and noticable gear changing. I absolutely did not understand what the hell was going on, how in earth can that car drive up to 100 kph or even more in the first gear....
I obviously never heard of CVT at that time.
The CVT of the Civic has noticeable gear changes. It feels a bit like a normal autmomatic transmission. I'm not a big fan of that, but car makers are programming the CVTs like that, because there are too many people who think continuous acceleration is something bad, I guess.
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
Do you know if you can safely coast in neutral with yours? (No mechanical reason not to?) That's a technique that can help quite a bit in certain circumstances. We had a Mirage owner here with CVT who got very good numbers (significantly better than the EPA rating) and he did quite a bit of neutral coasting, where appropriate.
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I don't know, I've read something about neutral coasting in a german Civic community a few weeks ago. There was one guy who was doing that to drive more fuel efficent. But that's a good advice, I'll read the manual and ask some other Honda CVT-drivers and then come back.
