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Old 11-16-2017, 12:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Diseasel300 View Post
Returned the car yesterday evening and topped off the tank. 129 miles on 3.59 gallons of fuel. That's 35.93mpg with 95% interstate driving. Completely unremarkable economy when you consider the auto start/stop, the fancy automated-manual transmission, electric power steering, and all the other fuel-saving business on that car. My Accord will get economy within 1% of that in the same driving conditions and it's twice the size, 7 years older, has a traditional automatic transmission (the most unreliable one Honda ever made), has no eco-madness (last year they did with no variable cylinder), and has way more power.

For comparison, the SDL did 29.4mpg on a recent highway trip. That was at 75mph with the A/C on. THAT is actually pretty impressive considering it's a 31 year old barge and has no fancy economy improving features at all.

I'm sure there's ways to get higher economy out of the car I was driving if you live with it and learn to use its quirks, but that isn't the point. If the fuel saving features are actually worthwhile, they'll save fuel and cut emissions with ANYONE at the wheel, and without that irritating start/stop business. When it's below freezing and raining, I want my heat!!!
To be fair, the auto stop is for stop and go traffic, not interstate so I am not surprised that your interstate driving MPG is not remarkable. My guess is that if the driving were 95% city I think the results would be different.
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