Jalopnik revisits the Insight...the cool one.
The popular automotive website, Jalopnik, spent some time with the first-gen Honda Insight and had satisfying 'insights' with their hypermiling adventures (be the slowest car on the highway, be glared at, flipped off, throttle feathering, coasting down hills, drafting, turning off the car, no AC, sitting in a pool of sweat, etc.) for that 80 mpg goal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WYypHmERtw#t=70
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If you are sitting in a pool of sweat you need to lay off the meth. :thumbup:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13_822qGv6A#t=3m15s
Wind tunnel time is apparently so cheap they can do the clay modelling right in the tunnel! |
Why don't idiots like him keep to the right?
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The one rule I gave myself before I attempted my first coast/bump start, etc . . . . was that I would not let my hypermiling affect the drivers around me. I changed my entire commute and driving habits to be able to accomplish it. I now have everybody that drives around me on a four lane road well-trained to go around me. I just drive a hair slower than they do in the slow lane, not even a lot slower, and never under the speed limit, and they all go around me in the other lane without getting pissed. I then resume P&G when the coast is clear behind me. Most of the guys recognize my car and just automatically go around me now. On the two lane section of my drive, there are four or five places where I can key off, coast over to a turn-off lane, let them pass, and bump start again back onto the road without ever leaving fifth gear. You definitely CAN hypermile without pissing off everybody around you, it just takes some work. |
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The Honda Insight (above) is all alum body and 3cyl IMA. My question is warm air intake no good on a Prius Gen2.(all engines have warm up cycle) Cold air intake vs Warm air intake which is better after engine is at run temp. |
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So me and james (and everyone here) agree (shock headline) that the guy in the video is a prat.
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I can get 71 mpg on a warm day on a trip like that in my boring and mainstream second gen Insight...
I have had 4 trips now with an indicated FE of 3.2 l/100 km; one 50 mile trip to an airport and 3 22 mile commutes home. 3.2 l/100 km is about 73.5 mpg. And I look better and talk less crap, or at least that's my perception ;) |
75.4 for ~200 miles on the current tank, much of it a ~130 mile round trip at about 65 mph. Hit 80+ in a few spots, but admittedly those were downhills, with foot off gas and regen kicking in.
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