First Forty
#1
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
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.
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 $25.
That's a good reason to hit the road!
Cheers
Interstate 80 is one truck after another across Illinois. The Fit doesn't feel like a small car while we drive past these monsters. We don't get blown around by them much, either.
#3
Zoiks! 30 MPG!!?? WTF are you driving it like you are running from the law? I get between 38-41 without really trying. Are you both in automatics? I would hope that you'll settle in to about 375-400 per tank in mixed driving, more like 400-435 all highway and using the cruise control.
#4
Zoiks! 30 MPG!!?? WTF are you driving it like you are running from the law? I get between 38-41 without really trying. Are you both in automatics? I would hope that you'll settle in to about 375-400 per tank in mixed driving, more like 400-435 all highway and using the cruise control.
This is real mileage in a real city (lots of stop and go, under 35mph, lots of sitting at stoplights) - not mileage you are reading on your mileage gauge that is inaccurate either. If you are getting 38 in downtown city driving in a city like Mpls, you are driving slower than my grandma. The couple longer highways drives we did take, we did get around 38mpg.
Last edited by minnemike; 04-10-2009 at 04:31 PM.
#5
This is real mileage in a real city (lots of stop and go, under 35mph, lots of sitting at stoplights) - not mileage you are reading on your mileage gauge that is inaccurate either. If you are getting 38 in downtown city driving in a city like Mpls, you are driving slower than my grandma. The couple longer highways drives we did take, we did get around 38mpg.
#6
I made 40.28 driving back from GA through the mountains at 80 mph. Boosted.
Cost me 50$ 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.
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.
#8
Obviously, you are not driving in a downtown like Mpls fulltime. Apples and Oranges.
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