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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 14, 2008 - 03:07pm PT
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Anyone know what car gets the best gas mileage?
Juan
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kimgraves
Trad climber
2 exits North of the Gunks
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Mar 14, 2008 - 03:21pm PT
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My new Prius usually gets 48ish mpg. But this tank I'm doing particulary well - so far 52.1 and it's about 3/4 down. For those of you who don't know the Prius has both a real-time and "since last reset" monitor so you can see how you're doing. I reset when I refill the tank.
Best, Kim
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jonstjohn
Trad climber
Fayetteville, WV
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Mar 14, 2008 - 03:24pm PT
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I drive a Toyota Corolla - manual - which gets about 41mpg on the highway and 32mpg in the city. Really reasonable compared to the hybrids, too - I got mine new for around $15,000. It's amazing how much you can get into that little car, too!
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SteveW
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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Mar 14, 2008 - 03:38pm PT
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My 2005 Civic hybrid is getting about 46 now.
Once it warms up and the gas is reformulated for
summer driving it'll go up to 55-57. I imagine
the Prius would be going up too, probably high 50's.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Mar 14, 2008 - 03:44pm PT
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Yo Kim - your Prius might be lying to you. You should calculate your mpg's based on miles at fill up just to see. I believe that monitor is notoriously inaccurate most of the time.
Was just looking at some mileage yesterday...it's still on my dry board here at work...
Smart car - coupe (33/41)
Toyota Yaris (29/35)
Toyota Matrix (21/29)
Toyota Corolla (27/35)
Honda Civic (26/34)
Honda Fit (28/34)
Motorcycles:
Harley Davidson 883 (45/60)
Yamaha FZ6 (47 combined)
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Mar 14, 2008 - 03:50pm PT
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I got over 20 miles exiting Joshua Tree in a Jeep on just about zero gallons. Gas gauge was well below zero.
I am guessing it averaged about 65 mpg on that trip.
Sometimes the instantaneous readout read over 85
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Mar 14, 2008 - 03:55pm PT
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Have we progessed technologically/ environmentally in the last 20+ years?
My previous 1984 Honda CRX 1.5 liter bested at 49.9 and averaged 39-41 mpg on road trips.
The 1.3 liter could consistantly get 50/55 mpg.
Makes you wonder what would be different if cars like that were the norm back then.
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Jonny D
Social climber
Lost Angelez, Kalifornia
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Mar 14, 2008 - 03:58pm PT
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i've got a toyota matrix 05 and i got 35mpg going to new mexico from l.a last year. i seem to get around 25mpg in town.
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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Mar 14, 2008 - 04:25pm PT
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Mine.
Summer before last I took a road trip. Put 7,000 miles on my car. The trip cost almost exactly 100 gallons of gas. You do the math.
GO
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Mar 14, 2008 - 05:13pm PT
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Ol' Blue: my piece of sh#t 1992 Corolla Wagon is pretty much guaranteed to deliver 30+ mpg.
This sight will help you with what you can expect if you're shopping for a different rig
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/findacar.htm
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 14, 2008 - 05:18pm PT
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At 80mpg this could be your next car!
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Mar 14, 2008 - 05:46pm PT
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even though there is no reason for the mileage reported by the Prius to not be right, in fact in the original Prius the reported mileage (reported by the car) was about 7% higher than the real mileage and in our newer model the reported mileage is about 4% high.
still great mileage and really low emissions. Plus I like driving it.
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ryanb
climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 14, 2008 - 05:46pm PT
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This One a "souped-down 1959 Opel T-1 that achieved 376.59 miles per gallon in a 1973 contest."
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno, CA
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Mar 14, 2008 - 06:02pm PT
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Can't remember which car it was, but one of the newer hybrids coming out is advertising 109mpg.
"My previous 1984 Honda CRX 1.5 liter bested at 49.9 and averaged 39-41 mpg on road trips."
Yeah, see, my mid-90's Honda averages 40ish on road trips too... So, I don't get how they release a hybrid that's only getting in the 50's. Gas/oil in this country is a problem only because rich, greedy f*#ks want it to be. There's NO way that in almost 25 years we couldn't make a car that gets better mileage...
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kimgraves
Trad climber
2 exits North of the Gunks
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Mar 14, 2008 - 10:55pm PT
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Well, maybe she's lying....;-) So when we got home tonight I rechecked.
The gas gauge says it's 60% down (about 6 gallons) and I've gone 335 miles so far on this tank. 335/6 = 55.8ish mpg. The computer says I've getting 52.2 mpg.
Whatever the real number is, it's pretty good. Cleaner than diesel. And at this rate I should have a range of over 500 miles per tank.
By the way, when we were in Paris last week we saw A LOT of those Smart cars. You wouldn't believe where the can park. Regular gas was 1.54E/l. While we were there it was 1.49E/$1 (today it was 1.56). There were NO SUVs to be seen anywhere.
Best, Kim
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orange crush
Boulder climber
ca
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Mar 15, 2008 - 03:17am PT
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i have a 96 saturn sl1 and it gets 25 or so in town and 33 on the highway(granted i do drive fast so im sure if you drove the speed limit you could bring these up a couple miles to the gallon)
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Mar 15, 2008 - 05:29am PT
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Here is an excerpt from an [url="http://discovermagazine.com/2006/feb/energizer" target="new"]Amory Lovins interview[/url] in Discover Magazine a couple of years back. Worth the read if MPG matters to you...
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A modern car, after 120 years of devoted engineering effort since Gottlieb Daimler built the first gasoline-powered vehicle, uses less than 1 percent of its fuel to move the driver. How does that happen?
Well, only an eighth of the fuel energy reaches the wheels. The rest of it is lost in the engine, drivetrain, and accessories, or wasted while the car is idling. Of the one-eighth that reaches the wheels, over half heats the tires on the road or the air that the car pushes aside. So only 6 percent of the original fuel energy accelerates the car. But remember, about 95 percent of the mass being accelerated is the car—not the driver. Hence, less than 1 percent of the fuel energy moves the driver. This is not very gratifying.
Well, the solution is equally inherent in the basic physics I just described. Three-quarters of the fuel usage is caused by the car's weight. Every unit of energy you save at the wheels by making the car a lot lighter will save an additional seven units of fuel that you don't need to waste getting it to the wheels.
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