Laxplaya11385

damn...i get about 18 mpg in the city, and I don't drive aggresively at al. Any of you 6 speeders got secrets as to how to get better mileage?

1995hoo

Drive on the highway and keep it in 6th. Failing that, try to use uncongested roads. For example, here in the DC area I-395 is often very congested past Landmark Mall in the evenings such that it can be faster to use the regular streets even though they have traffic lights. For fuel economy purposes, you're better off if you're moving than if you have to stop.

Try not to rev much above 3000 to 3500 if you really want to work on the mileage.

SBTL

18 mpg combined and 90% of that is short distance city driving with lots of stop signs.

26-28 mpg highway and I'm usually driving 70-80 mph and fully loaded with gas wife & kids and something in the trunk.

(Note that I am a lead foot and to tend to keep the revs up shifting at 4-6K pretty routinely.)

varanelli

25,000 miles
I have averaged about 21 MPG
Mix of highway and city
Moderately aggressive driver (three speeding tickets in less than two years)

gurneyeagle

My daily commute is an 80 mile round trip of a mix of stop and go and highway driving. I average about 28 mpg.

The one trip on the car so far was a round trip from New Orleans to Dallas. I kept the cruise control set at 78 mph for most of the trip and averaged 33 mpg! I was able to make the 500+ mile one way trip on a tank of gas, which is incredible. The total trip time was a tick over 7 hours!

Not having the kids in the car for multiple food/bathroom/food/bathroom stops helped immensely.

gurney

Gunsnroses316

20- 25 atlanta drivin

Krypton Ken

Local and Beltway driving -- 23 mpg. On the highway, 27-29 mpg at 75-80 mph.

Aconcagua

In the city I get about 16-18, and on the highway I have seen it get up as high as 33 on longer trips at 70mph.

A_UFO

Highway trip with hilly terrain the MID shows:
31 - 32 MPG
Avg Sp 75
Miles 180

Mix Driving (22 mile rush hour compute; 90% highway 10% city; however the highway is about 15 - 25% stop-and-go):
24 - 26 MPG

oppnyc

NYC city
city - 14 mpg in SS mode (I drive with heavy foot and almost at red line)
hwy- 28-31

kennyc

17mpg
35mph

jwclements1

30-34 mpg. my daily commute is an almost straight two lane road for an hour

khiyal

I doubt if anyone in NY City (Queens/Brooklyn/Mnahattan) would get over 14/16 MPG. For my first tank of gas on my new 06 TL 5/AT, I got 11 MPG probably due to the crazy holiday traffic all over.

ttliang

that's not bad at all. lucky if you can get 11 "MPH" there.

Grimnebulin

2005 5AT

MPG - 21
MPH - 31
Miles - 12,900

I don't understand how some people can get 30+ MPG - they must have 6-speeds? I cruise at between 70-80 (depending on how many idiots are sitting in the fast lane - do like I do, pass on the left and move back over to lane #2 so that faster cars can pass) and average about 25-26 MPG in mostly freeway driving...

Grimnebulin

2005 5AT

MPG - 21
MPH - 31
Miles - 12,900

I don't understand how some people can get 30+ MPG - they must have 6-speeds? I cruise at between 70-80 (depending on how many idiots are sitting in the fast lane - do like I do, pass on the left and move back over to lane #2 so that faster cars can pass) and average about 25-26 MPG in mostly freeway drving...much lower, <20 MPG, in city driving.

cccjoecool

I had a 15-mile interstate drive into work today. When I took the ramp off the interstate, my reading was an average 32 mpg (I reset the computer shortly before getting on the highway).

However, my normal average with about 70%:30% city:highway driving is about 23 to 24 mpg.

1995hoo

I will confirm that I have the 6MT and that my best mileage has come in sustained highway runs where I can leave it in 6th for extended periods.

Agree with you fully on moving back over once you finish passing, BTW.

ttliang

urs looks about right. MPH is only 31. you need to reset trip computer everytime you fill the gas. i know b/c ur miles=12900. u've never reseted it, have u? go to that screen and hold the reset button down until it resets. u can do this everytime u want to calculate MPG for a trip or what not. reset it next time when on the hwy cruising. u'll see higer number for ur hwy ride. HTH.

Peters

12 litres per 100 km. At 4.56 litres to a gallon and 1.6 km to a mile thats.....23.75 miles to the gallon in my 5AT based on mostly city driving and a good sampling of miles. That's imperial gallons I guess. On the highway I've achieved 8 litres per 100 kms. That's pretty good.

NYFENIXTL

Daily driven 85 miles round trip for work.
AVG 25mpg, 26mpg after AEM and just did magnaflow cat back system and I am down to 24mpg, but that's because I am high reving to hear teh exhaust. i am sure it will get back up once I grow up.
Avg mph is 42

Grimnebulin

There's no way I'm resetting that history screen (I know how) - it'll be kept there as long as I own the car. It's only 2 miles short of the total miles the car has been driven. The dealer reset it after I picked up the car, otherwise every mile driven would have been reflected.

I just calc the mileage after every fillup. My most recent fillup was 20mpg with a fair amount of time sitting in traffic in SF during one or two trips. The one before that was about 25mpg, mostly freeway driving without traffic at about 75-80. Gas prices don't really mean that much to me since the gas is paid for by my company - but I still wish I got better mileage on the freeway...guess Acura needs a six speed auto.

XtraKrispy

Sorry for the late response. Here is my data from my car. I just broke 1,000 miles this week!

DATE BRAND OCTANE PRICE GALLONS BEG ODO END ODO DISTANCE AVG MPG AVG MPH RANGE CALC MPG
10/29/2005 Mobil 93 $2.659 9.954 190 411 221 20 21 74 19.51607206
11/17/2005 BP 93 $2.549 11.324 411 662 251 21 28 64 20.8714452
11/30/2005 BP 93 $2.399 12.026 662 904 242 19 20 40 18.81218905
12/12/2005 Shell 93 $2.479 12.864 904

XtraKrispy

Sorry I don't know how to post this so that it looks clean. I've only filled up 4 times and I've had 20, 21 and 19 as my MPG with 21, 28 and 20 as my avg MPH.

TheNip73

That's just ridiculous...

I wonder what is gonna happen when you change your battery??

ttliang

u can buy a external battery/charger to keep them if you do it carefully. ;-) buy why???????????????????????????? i don't think this car is gonna hit the barrett jackson auction site ever.

Grimnebulin

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Dead battery - say it ain't so! Hahahahahaha. The records will just die at that point...I'm not crazy enough to do the battery hook-up thing recommended below your post...or am I? Heh heh.

I'm just trying to get the MPG and MPH above 21/31 - they've been stuck there for the last 6K miles. Started out at about 19/29 and got better the first few thousand miles, but as noted, no improvement since. Hoping to achieve 22/32 soon since I'm now putting on about 650-700 freeway miles a week.

ttliang

since you got so many miles and it's an average, whatever improvement on this trip is gonna be like a drop in a bucket now.

oppnyc

I hear you.
I am in staten island
my TL - 15000 miles
my last three tanks
13 miles per gallon
I put 10 gallons and I was able to drive 150 miles before car stoped.