I took the Fit out on the highway (6MT). Seems to me the gearing should be a whole lot more spread out. What's the point of having an extra gear if it's lower than 5th on other cars? Ha

 

Short trip, in town, 82.4% above in town EPA of 29.

52.9 mpg

Now I know the mpg meter isn't all that accurate but it's my best reading yet. What's your highest so far?

 

A few months back I got this for the first 20.6 miles after filling up. There have been a few times like that when I fill up and have no traffic and no stop lights.
My highest actual MPG (miles driven/gallons) for an entire tank was 45.3 MPG on July 6, 2015.
The lowest actual tank was 35.0 MPG on January 29, 2015.

 

Nice. I'm only almost through my second full tank so my highest and lowest tank (first and only) has been 37.8 mpg.

Hoping for 40s majority of the time, but we'll see.

 

As you learn your route and your car, your MPGs will definitely increase. You will be seeing mid 40s in no time if you want to.

 

Coasting down a short hill (about one mile) in neutral after start-up, I get in the mid 60's. For regular driving, every time I go into town (12 miles), I get low to mid 50's. Coming home, it's mid 40's.

 

First tank driven on our new 2015 Fit LX 6MT.

Amazing!

We drove 615 km (382 miles) in total, and the gauge was showing two bars at fill-up. I pumped 29.89 L (7.9 gallons), so that works out to 4.9 L/100 km, or 48 MPG!

The driving was about one-third city, and two-thirds road trip on a winding coastal road, so not quite freeway driving. A/C was on the entire time. I expect that the mileage won't be quite as great for 100% city driving, which will be more typical.

Also interesting to note that the fuel gauge reading is so conservative. I only pumped 29 L into a 40 L tank, so a proper gauge reading should have been closer to five bars. I didn't have a fuel light. I've read elsewhere about how conservative the fuel gauge and warning lights are. I wonder why? Not a big deal either way, just good to know.

 

People tend to be optimistic when the fuel needle heads toward E, so the car makers play it safe and give them enough gas to get to a station. Imagine of it was the other way around, and you ran dry with two bars showing.

 

After a year, I'm taking another 20 miles (33 km) range per tick on the fuel gauge "to the bank". I consider this an emergency resource, and will continue to use the "empty" icon as a gas stop prompt. Along with the great kph, have you noticed that the ride is a little more than "OK"? Enjoy your Fit, I cannot share any complaints with my experience (replaced a totaled '08 Fit with a '15 last August). Would love to see some pix of your future Canadian coastal drive experience.

 

At the end of the month I will be making a trip to Mississauga Ontario from Bloomfield New Jersey which is about 450 miles. I plan on taking 2 gas cans with 10 gallons of fuel just to not have to pay as much for gas in Canada. So because I will have plenty of spare fuel I am willing to try to run the car until it's empty to see how much will it actually go. Am I going to damage anything if this happens? I did it previously on my old car and also on a rental car and everything was ok. Also do you guys think I can run the entire trip on a full tank? I don't think that is possible but I am willing to try.

 

Running a car to empty is not good for the engine, fuel pump, injectors, etc. especially with older cars the sediment built up can get sucked into the while fuel line and clog injectors. Running the fuel pump dry isn't too great on it either.

That said, people run their cars dry all the time without issue, but that doesn't make it good for your vehicle. It's your call but I'd rather not add unnecessary wear and tear.

One time for the sake of science may be worth it to you though. Of course just one time, just because I'm curious, is how many oops happen as well, including some of us most likely haha

 

I haven't bothered to change the 'trip' since I bought the car last year... so, 6K miles in, all along the west coast twice, up and down mountains, in city and in desert, comes out to 35.7 MPG. Going up two mountains on 'sport' really shot this number, it was at 38 or so before and hasn't recovered. :P

 

If you calculated every tank by hand and averaged your miles over gallons I wonder what it would be.

 

Since I got the car I been filling up right around the 0 mile range left mark a few times but mostly when range is between 10 and 20 miles.

 

Your tank still has a reserve beyond that 0 miles left mark. Pretty much all cars do. "Empty" can mean anything from 2 - 4 or so gallons left on the vehicles I've had in the past. That is intentional, so we don't get to the bare bottom of the tank and cause issues.

 

So I should fill up at or below 0 range mostly?

 

That's exactly what many of us using Fuelly (or other alternatives) are doing. We are tracking every tank by dividing the miles driven by the gallons pumped. Feel free to click on my Fuelly banner here below my post if you want to try it out and keep track of your tanks - it's free. As I said earlier, there are other alternatives besides Fuelly, or you can keep track by hand or in an excel document or similar.

 

Every car I've ever owned I track every single fill up in a designated notepad, and for the last few vehicles I've used Fuelly, ecomodder, etc. ha. I kind of wig out if I don't have every mile, modification, maintenance etc logged. My girlfriend hates it ha

 

I would recommend against both of these ideas. Aside from the risk of spillage from the gas cans, two five-gallon cans will be heavy and take up a lot of space. None of the commercially available gas cans is completely airtight, so you will have sickening gas fumes in the car with you. That smell will linger long after you get home. You'll be driving an extra 85 lb of gas to Canada with you, and that's not going to help your mpg.

Canadian gas costs about $1.00 more per gallon that U. S. gas. They're paying about $1.00/litre, and a litre = 0.264 gal. Divide .264 into 1, and you get 3.78, which we can round up to $4.00/gal you would be paying, in U. S. money.

If you get 40 mpg, which is on the low side, for 450 miles, you would use 11.25 gallons. You would be saving maybe $11.00 to bring gas from NJ with you. I just realized you're in NJ, with the cheapest gas in the country. Oh, well, it's still not worth it.

Back in the 70's, when gas stations were running out of gas, people started carrying extra gas with them. Between the fires and the spillage, it was a real mess.

 

Like I said before, OBSESSIVE, but to each his own. I take such short trips that it would not be fair to the Fit to judge it by its fuel mileage. Little gas pump lights up, I got 30 to 60 miles left. I've never put more than 10 gallons in it, with 6/10ths left, that would be about 25 miles and I checked the range before returning home and it indicated 29, home and fill up was 8 miles away with a traffic tie up and a cop who didn't know how to direct traffic 45 minutes wasted at idle.