Finally !!! got past 45 mpg

[Jyden]

Last fill the best ever - 46.44 mpg. Ypiiiie

All my different mods, and close attention to driving style finally payed off, helped along by summer temperatures in the region of +80 deg. F for most of the past three weeks.

Accroding to my Scangauge I also have had my best trip so far. A 20 miles of carm driving on rural roads got me past 56 mpg on that trip, but a lot of the time there was a solid rear wind pushing me along

[NeilBlanchard]

Good job!

[Laurentiu]

Congratulations !!

[Jyden]

Laurentiu - how on earth do you get that old Corsa to nearly 50 mpg ????

[Laurentiu]

the secret ? veeeery slowly ?

90-100 is the fastest I've ever went and those are rare occurrences. My commute is short but I do use pulse/glide extensively as well as not caring to always move "with" the traffic. I think the engine in this car also really helps, I try to keep the revs as low as possible and the max. torque at 2400rpm probably helps a bit. For comparison your car has 90Nm max torque (mine has 88Nm) but at 4100rpm which means you'll probably stall it if you try to go 40-45km/h in 5th gear like I do because this old banger of mine also has quite tall gearing 0.71 5th gear vs. 0.864 for a C54 Yaris transmission (assuming that's the gearbox installed in yours).

Finally, maybe the climate in Cyprus helps me a bit, always sunny and warm so no cold starts, in fact it's tooo hooot all the time, I would love so 20-25 degree Celsius weather right about now



P.S. unfortunately this last tank I'm on now will probably be in the low 40's or God forbid high 30's because the last week I had to move job locations and the new route is a bit harder than the other one , my 50mpg goal seems further away now .

[redline5th]

Excellent work!

I was able to achieve 43 and 45 across the state of TN in my Civic when it had the Y7 motor in it. Definitely a good feeling to know that you're getting better gas mileage than most vehicles produce today.

Keep up the excellent work of working towards being softening the blow of fuel prices.