70.91mpg...
 

Well.. I'm not sure how I feel about this tank. On the one hand I feel like I might have been a little obsessive, hypermiling as hard as I did to achieve this. On the other hand I feel kind of like a bada$$ for pushing my little red brick over 70mpg!!

I'm realizing how much work (driving style mostly) it took to get to this point, and how much harder it will be to match/beat this in the future. I've been contemplating what it would take to get to 80mpg and I'm wondering if I should take a step back and just be thankful for what I've got or if I should push forward into heavier mods like boat tails and camshaft alterations.

So far my financial investment into hypermiling is next to nothing (probably $50), so I'm about $475 over epa estimates. Should I spend that money and take the mods to the next level?

edit: Or do I skip all that monkey motion and go for an EV build?

I say be happy but also if the mods aren't terribly hard I'd go for them that way you would achieve 70mpg easier

Congrats on a great milestone!

Agreed. I settled on 60+ mpg as the only goal once I realized that it required too much obsession for my tastes to get to higher levels. This car is my daily driver. I need to think of it as a tool to get me to places I MUST get to efficiently (in terms of time) and with as little mood-altering hassle as Southern California can provide. My ongoing modding is all about making 60+ easier to sustain, especially in winter.

That is probably a much better idea than bashing my head against a wall trying to hit 80mpg. 70mpg took quite a bit of slow driving, but it would be cool to stay there at higher speeds.

Thanks! Yeah this is my daily driver too. I have allot of backroads I can use that are the same distance as using the highway which allow me to have some fun doing P&G almost as much as I want. I do think that the warm (90-100F) weather plays a big role and I know I can't depend on that going forward. I'm thinking 70mpg would be a good goal for tanks long term :)