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Well my Civic always forces me to despise it, rattles, squeeks, sloppy shifter, rough ride, slow as sin!!! ect ect .....
However I cant argue with the fact that it is stone cold reliable and gets a MPG that would make hybrids jelous.
Recently I took a trip from central Oklahoma to Dallas Texas, did some city driving while there, highways were stop and go, floored it a couple times to pass people, ran the AC mildly, drove back to Oklahoma, did a couple days of around town driving, took a small trip 45min away and came back. Just FINALLY filled back up "at the same gas station that I always use" and did my avrage. She got 41MPG !!!
Car is a 2003 2 door EX manual 60k miles. Has subs in the trunk, strut bar, large cat-back, child in the back seat + other random weight and I didnt baby the car at all. Tires, plugs, battery are new, air filter clean, tires at correct presure and oil is synthetic. Gas used is same as always Shell 89.
Just goes to show, take car of your civic and it will still anoy the heck outa you but it will also still always love you.
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Re: You try to hate it but just cant do it. 41mpg avg
alot of them up around chicago are only 55, but you better at least be doing 65 in the slow lane cause the average speed is 80-90 in the other lanes lol
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Re: You try to hate it but just cant do it. 41mpg avg
Yep, i have been there.. I am scared to drive my civic up there because of that.. Civic feels like its going fall apart when going 80+ miles, lol.. I take the CL-S when going to cities like that.. Washington is the same way...
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Re: You try to hate it but just cant do it. 41mpg avg
I tested that. I don't have true numbers on hand but I drive my civic only to work and back and its about 100 miles total a day, all highway. I drove there going 65 and 80 and got just about the same gas mileage going that speed using a full tank.... I was surprised that happened.
Re: You try to hate it but just cant do it. 41mpg avg
^^^ i had almost the same type of drive at my previous job, averaged 37 with an auto. 96 miles both ways, only about a mile and a half under 40mph. there was always traffic with me, so i was never pushing a lot of air on my own. the same road, with less traffic, i got less mpg.
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Re: You try to hate it but just cant do it. 41mpg avg
Highway driving was mostly hills both ways 65-70mph, city and all the stop and go was ofcourse random. It just amazed me that I never even try to baby it or get good mpg and she just does it on her own even with things against it
like extra weight, AC ect ect. I can just imagine if I didn't have the extra weight, turned AC off and did all highway at a solid 65mph. Bet it could hit 45+ mpg
