last 2 tanks, now with a roofrack:

33.9mpg 50/50 city/highway, average driving, bit of traffic jams

30.75mpg, 50/50 city highway, lots of stop and go and 80ish on the highway, little bit of a/c use

 

In my 5MT sport, my first two tanks have been ~37mpg each. This is with probably 70% highway miles. I cruise at 70mph on the highway and drive with a pretty light foot the rest of the time.

 

sorry, i failed to mention that i have a 5MT...but then again i just looked at the title of the thread, hehehe...in any event...shifting below 2500 rpms and doing 65-70mph on 98% highway driving and trailing every SUV and 18-wheeler that i could yielded me a whopping 32.8 mpg. This is no different than what i've been averaging driving normally (rapid acceleration, shifting at 4500-5000 rpms, cruising at 70-75 at 98% highway driving w/o trailing bigger vehicles). maybe this will all change after my first oil change on the lighter side of things, another fit owner who went to the dealership to try and return his car because he was unhappy with the gas mileage reported that his mpg shot up by about 5 mpg when his car hit 5K miles and finally became happy with it. I waited to hit that mark, surpassed it, and still no change.

 

I get 37mpg city constantly after 2 fill ups also. I am going on a trip to jersey next Friday, so I will see what I get highway. I also shift under 2.5k and don't take it above 70mph.

 

did a 350mile round trip today and got a steller 39.43mpg running 70+ the majority of the trip.

 

I just got my first tank over 40!! woot!

It was 40.26 to be exact. it actually kind of sucks because I had surgery last week so I wasn't even driving the car for about half the tank while other people took me to/from the hospital and my doctor's for a checkup. Just for comparison I normally get 37-39.

 

I usually get between 35 to 42 mpg
my friends expedition gets like 10-15mpg
I love saving money at the pump!

 

So did I -- 612km with 34.12L, which works out to 42 miles for each of your puny US gallons. My previous best tanks were 39mpg before winter set in.

 

On my base MT I have been getting a solid 40mpg average for a while--car now has 11K mi on it. On recent road trip (1600 miles), I shared driving with my leadfoot husband (who ordinarily never drives the Fit). Got the worst mileage ever, 33mpg, on one tank of the trip. Granted, we had headwind issues as well, but this proved to me definitively that driving style is a HUGE factor in the mpg performance of this great little car.

I would bet that anyone could learn how to drive more efficiently, but it would be helpful to have a scan gauge (or whatever they are called), that provides instant feedback of mpg usage, as a behavior modification tool.

We are entering hurricane season at $3/gallon for regular gas, and the roads here in central TX are still gridlocked with unending lines of gas pig SUVs, each with exactly one human inside them, so I guess fuel prices have not risen to the point of changing our driving habits too much. Another slam on the coastal refineries and we'll be weeping about $4, $5 or even $6/gal gas. It is time we learned to squeeze every last mile out of those precious gallons!

 

Anybody else really like the line from "Over the Hedge" about SUV's
RJ: That is an S.U.V; Humans ride in then because they are slowly losing their ability to walk.
Penny: Jeepers, its so big!
Lou: How many humans fit in there?
RJ: Usually, one.

But seriously, I am excited because I just got 41.2 mpg- all highway with hills about 50% of the trip and AC. This car is AWESOME! It gets better gas mileage than my 91 and has 50% more power!

 

41mpg today. 326 miles, and it took 7.87 gallons to fill

 

First two tanks in the new Fit - 44mpg and 39mpg. I'm impressed. 602 miles on it... yay! break in period is over!
-D

 

Sport MT. Miles to date -21,083
Cumulative mpg since purchase (5/29/06) -38.2
Best tank so far - 46.3
85% Highway Miles.

 

I am at 337miles and have a little more then 1/4 tank left. I wonder what mpg I am going to get. I am excited haha, it seems the more miles i put on the car the better my mpg gets.

 

My first tank of gas netted me 35mpg in hilly Pittsburgh city driving with VERY few highway miles.

 

44mpg this last tank

 

I have filled up 4 times now with my fit. 1st tank got 37.7, 2nd tank got 36.6, and same with the 3rd. Drove a little more highway on the 4th and ended up with 38.3. Usually, I'm doing 50/50 split of city/highway. So far I love this car!

 

1st tank: 30 MPG 20% expressway, 80% city. 75-80 on expressway, ahead of the pack in the city. A/C on constantly.

 

Tank 1 343.7m/8.485g=40.5 mpg
Tank 2 324.5m/8.971g=36.2 mpg

38.3 mpg average

 

One thing that I have noticed is that when filling up is that the car acts like it's full when it's not. I have been able to get at least another gallon or so in the car after the pump shuts off. The day after I got the car, the gauge showed just a hair under FULL. I went and put gas in really slow and got 3.5 gallons into the car. Anyone else notice this?