First Forty
 

We had a quick 500-mile round trip to Chicago yesterday. We filled up with six gallons after driving 240 miles. I thought that normal highway driving in this car should be a forty-mpg proposition. As the weather warms toward springtime, we've seen our gas mileage creeping upward.

Winds were reasonable, and temps were in the high forties/low fifties.

We bought the car for traveling without breaking the bank on fuel costs. Total fuel cost for 500 miles was about $25.

That's a good reason to hit the road!

Cheers

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Interstate 80 is one truck after another across Illinois. The Fit doesn't feel like a small car while we drive past these monsters. We don't get blown around by them much, either.

Same here... was at 28 mpg with heavy city driving Jan-Mar .... now we are seeing it hit 30 with no change in driving habits. Can't wait for the 1st oil change!

Zoiks! 30 MPG!!?? WTF are you driving it like you are running from the law? I get between 38-41 without really trying. Are you both in automatics? I would hope that you'll settle in to about 375-400 per tank in mixed driving, more like 400-435 all highway and using the cruise control.

This is real mileage in a real city (lots of stop and go, under 35mph, lots of sitting at stoplights) - not mileage you are reading on your mileage gauge that is inaccurate either. If you are getting 38 in downtown city driving in a city like Mpls, you are driving slower than my grandma. :D The couple longer highways drives we did take, we did get around 38mpg.

not really so, grt has a GD, as do i and i get 35mpg even doing between 75-80 mph on the highway not ever driving for efficiency. even with mixed city i get very good gas mileage.

I made 40.28 driving back from GA through the mountains at 80 mph. Boosted. :D

Cost me 50$ each way in gas to drive from Flint MI to Atlanta GA. EDIT: BTW I run super premium, so whatever you pay for gas add $.20-$.30.

That is very nice...I'm sure you enjoyed the trip...

Obviously, you are not driving in a downtown like Mpls fulltime. Apples and Oranges.