OMG….dude are you serious ???????????? What are you driving civic?????
I get 320 or so…usually 300 I don’t like to wait till lights come up.
But 470 and 550!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!

 

550…. WTF ???

Even if you completely ran the tank BONE DRY at 17.2 gallons you would STILL be getting 32 MPG.
That’s kind of hard to believe.
Pop your hood. I think they installed a 4-CYL in there by mistake.

 

I did an experiment a long time ago where I compared whole tanks of all city driving with normal driving habits (shift point 4.5-5.5K) to very conservative driving habits (shift point under 3K). Guess what - if I don't rev up the engine, it uses less gas.

After I proved to myself that the car has the capability of getting better mileage, I've gone back to having fun and shifting as high as I feel like.

Like spdy said, if I wanted to save gas, I'd have gotten a CL-P.

...reminds me of something I just experienced last weekend. I have this brother-in-law that I don't hold in very high regard. I was in his car with him while he was driving. The guy always shifts at 1800 and rarely gets the engine above 2000 for city driving. I thought he was a bit of a loser as it was, but that confirmed it. I've never seen anybody drive a car that wimpily.

 

My sister used to do that with her Eclipse when she had it.
She would always shift at like 2000 RPM.
She’d be up in 5th gear at 30MPH.

Funny thing is that I am the one that taught her stick shift on my Omni GLH and I definitely didn’t tell her to do it that way.

 

Yeah, it's a weird thing to see in real life. It was sort of another nail in the coffin about what I think about him. Oh well.

 

It's clear the automatics get better mpg than the manuals. I never get over 25 mpg. usually much less, but I don't baby the car, that engine loves to go!

 

Well Shawn ... if you recall ... back at the next to last (or was it really the last ) Philly meet, I mentioned that I had traveled the 115 miles from York and the gauge was just touching the top of the F bar (the thick one). I travelled 504.5 miles before putting 16.065 gallons of gas into the car, and the 550 miles was obtained in the very next tankful. Have filled up twice since then, and just came back from a weekend trip to AC and the mileage is back down to the 'normal' area (just a shade under 30). I can't explain it, but I think it must have something to do with the 8 coats of Zaino I had put on before the meet (counting the applications before the previously cancelled event also).
Sorry guys ... I obviously have no need to you, as I'm old enough to have accepted the fact that my penis is always going to be the size it is and therefore have no need to constantly check over the urinal walls. This thread started by someone asking about the ability to obtain the mileage posted on the sticker, and questioned whether the estimate was overated or non-achievable due to a lead foot. Many have stated that they 'have' been able to obtain better than 30mpg during pure highway runs, and this is basically all my car sees day in/day out (67 miles to work, no stop signs at 4:30 in the morning and the only traffic light is blinking yellow when I get to work - 135 miles/day round trip). I have admitted that the 550 was extraordinary, and so far non-duplicateable after the ensuing 2 tankfulls. All questions were answered in the thread I started when I announced that I had hit 548.6 (no runs to vtec, cold weather, etc). I see this as a fluke, as only one other time had I come close to this when I had made the 500 mile trip from Abilene to Little Rock and the tank was showing 3/4 empty. If I've got a 4 banger, it sure runs like a 6