THE MPG THREAD
 

My '01 Silverstone regularly got 29-31 all-around and up to 36 highway MPG, so when I read some of the efficiency posts of late before acquiring my "new" used low-mileage '02 I was worried (with these fuel prices) that I wouldn't be as blessed.

3 Tanks: 30.8 (around town), 29.8 (around town), and 32.6 (trip from Fredericksburg, VA to Baltimore...

Granted, I don't VTec it at every light and every turn, but I certainly do so when the road gets clear!!

Wow! On my '04 the best I get in town is low 20s and I drive fairly conservatively. I get about 30 highway at 70 80 mph.

Best I ever got was recently I was in North GA and could find nothing but regular and was told it would be several hundred miles to find premium. So I filled with regular. I drove across the mountains of TN and when I stopped I had gotten 33mpg. Go figure.

i get no were near that :( i think i have a fat left foot

I get 18-19MPG no matter what I do.

Incorrect calculations -- I can understand some folks under rare circumstances beating the highway miles by a bit -- 55MPH top up windows up ... but 36 on the highway and 31 in town? No.

I get a best of 21 MPG in the city, and 24 - 26 on the highway. I live in LA though so my numbers are probably slightly lower than normal....but sheesh 30 city?? Either you're calculating wrong or you don't take it past 3k?

Since owning a 99 Jetta TDI, I learned a GREAT deal about making fuel stretch - I had a couple tanks in that car over 775 miles...

One thing I regularly apply from having the Jetta is that I "vent" each fill-up to the filler neck - so I always fill to exactly the same point, and have true numbers to calculate mileage.

My other car is a Civic Hybrid, which I have figured out how to get 49-50 MPG around town in (when most folks I encounter get 45-47 on the same roads)...I coast in nuetral to most stops, I rarely "pull" on uphill grades, and I accelerate out of corners - I use Cruise Control a anytime the road is clear, even in 4th or 5th gear at lower speeds.

After a trip from F'burg to JMU a few years ago yielded a 36.1 tank, I posted that here and had similar sentiment of disbelief - but I later went on a Skyline Drive trip with one of the doubters, and I let him fill my tank before and after and do the calculations himself - that trip I got 34.8 in my MY01 and he got 32.1 in his MY00.

Like I say, though, I DO like to VTec when the road is clear, but it is even harder for me to "let loose" now that I drive the Civic as my regular car...that kind of driving just programs you to conserve so each time I let the S2000 go I start doing calculations in my head! I need to get back over to Skyline drive and clear my head =)

Tough to drive 110 miles from Fredericksburg to Baltimore in 93 minutes and not go over 3k RPM...with cruise at 74 I am over 3k...

Agree with Steve C. How did you do these calculations? Those pumps that automatically stop when "full" aren't the most accurate. So you have to maybe take the average of 3-5 fill ups.

The best around city MPG I got was 25 and 31 on highway. And that was really babying it.

I vent to the top of the filler neck...the nearest gas (that I would ever put in a car, anyways) is 8 miles from my house so I use the fuel up from the overfill by the time I get to my driveway...

Being a TDIClub members for years, we all learned to vent our tanks (or even perfomr "ventectomies") to make sure we always started with a true baseline...

...on the other hand, maybe I just make $$ by going from forum to forum and pretending to get better mileage than I really do...and people just send me cash ;)

I really only posted this originally because I was happy to have the S under me again and know that when my wife parks her van and takes the Civic we aren't sacrificing economy...the S gets much better economy than her Odyssey, but without a manual transmission (in the van) there is little you can do about that!