azienbabyboi wrote:you got to pay to play! what better miles get a civic or a fit or versa or soemthing liket that
1992 KA24DE 5spd. 25mpg rural driving. Bone stock. Premium Gas.
2002 Sunfire GT 2.4L LD9 all motor 5Sp. 32Mpg rural. 176 Whp. Yes laugh at me saying all motor, but it is completely built, done by a previous owner. Premium Gas.
Pay to play is usually the case but I'm not too happy that my 240 can't compete with my Sunfire, it could be the gears, my Sunfire redlines at 175kp/h in third so the gear ratio's are obviously a little different from my 240's.
The best way to get good mileage is to drive smooth, think momentum. If you know traffic is going to stop let off and coast/brake early and avoid ever stopping so that you don't have to expend the energy to move your massive block of metal back up to speed. The faster you accelerate the worse you will do when it comes to gas mileage, I accelerate reasonably, but definitely slower than 99% of other drivers on the road and I find it works wonders. Drive the speed limit, not only is speeding bad for your license and insurance, it takes exponentially more power to maintain a higher speed, basically the faster you go the harder nature tries to hold you back and to overcome that you need more power, in your car you get that from making a bigger explosion which takes a lot more fuel. Basically you just have to chill.