Let's settle this MPG thing...

[ThePaulson]

Hey People,
I'd like to address the mileage question from a more scientific perspective. Let's collect some mileage data, and after we have a fair sample ammassed, I'll run some stats and post the results.
If you can, please post any fuel mileage info you can including

MPG
Highway/City/Mixed
MT/AT
Mileage on Fit

I'll go first

32
Highway
MT
278 Miles

Cheers,
Paulson

[wyy183]

That's not scientific. That is an opinion. Scientific is when you have a controlled environment with controlled conditions - which, none of us are likely to have.

For example, I can give you the % of highway and city that I drive. But even on my morning commute, the air temperature may vary by 10 degrees, or more, over the course of a tank. Also the humidity varies a good bit, too.

This isn't going to settle anything.

Now, I have posted a while back the following: http://www.fitfreak.net/forums/fit-t...tml#post149388 where you can go and see where I have recorded every time I have put gas in my Fit over the first 30,000 miles. This still isn't scientific, but it does show some trends.

Oh, and based on simple factors, a single tank isn't going to be accurate - the position of your car, the individual pump, the phase of the moon (well, that may be a bit of a stretch!) and other things can contribute to a single tank mpg reading.

If you're bored, check the link above, and study it for a while and let me know what thoughts you have about mpg trends.

YMMV (your mileage may vary!!!!!!)

[ThePaulson]

Originally Posted by wyy183

That's not scientific. That is an opinion. Scientific is when you have a controlled environment with controlled conditions - which, none of us are likely to have.

For example, I can give you the % of highway and city that I drive. But even on my morning commute, the air temperature may vary by 10 degrees, or more, over the course of a tank. Also the humidity varies a good bit, too.

This isn't going to settle anything.

David,
I have an informed understanding of what is and is not actually scientific (it's kind of what I do for a living). Thanks for the link to your post, but I was hoping to average across subjects and include mileage and transmission type as predictors. There still seems to be a lot of inconsistency in reported mileage and this forum seems like a good way to collect some of my own data on the subject. Of course mileage varies by a lot of variables which would be impossible to track in this manner, but that's the whole reason for statistics.

[Gordio]

Well, there is a thread with a mileage poll, for both AT and MT. And this is not scientific. We members (anyone who contributed to the poll) are just a few of the entire population of US fit drivers. We drive different terrains, etc. The biggest reason thsi isn't scientific is we decide what mileage we get. For example, I'v egotten 29mpg before. I've also gotten 37.

I voted 35mpg, because thats my average after the breakin period. Different people have different criteria for what mileage they get. Another example is somone might get 41mpg once, and are so proud of it, he'll write down that's the mileage he gets for the fit.

But the mileage poll, although the best way to gather this data, is not scientific even for statistical purposes

[kps]

You can find some people's data summarized with a city/highway proportion at the EPA site. (Notice the difference between transmissions; the real-world reports for the standard are slightly above the EPA estimate, while the slushies are a few mpg below.)

TrueDelta records more detail about driving conditions; you'll have to sign up and contribute your own information in order to see the full results. Mine's in there somewhere, though a few tanks out of date.