Prince Valiant
05-30-2008, 03:18 PM
Okay...probably not really.
But this article does give plenty of good tips on how you can improve your mileage. The guy in the article has been verified to get as much as 50+mpg from his Honda Accord 4 banger.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveonaCar/Get50MpgInYourOwnCar.aspx?
He's also the founder of http://www.cleanmpg.com
Understand, I don't endorse all his techniques, but I leave it for you to decide what you are willing to do to cut your fuel bill...
When he owned an insight, he set the record for greatest number of miles on a tank (1250+ for a ~ 120mpg average) and set the highest mileage on a closed loop course at 165mpg (for the record, my highest ever, non-loop was 96.5mpg over a similar distance of 17.5 miles).
I've been doing many of the stuff on a couple different vehicles I've had to use over the past few months...with surprising results:
My brothers v6 sebring sedan normally gets ~24mpg mixed with his driving, I was able to average ~34mpg.
A dodge Durango rental (4.7 310hp SOHC v8, 2WD), rated for 21mpg on the hwy, I pulled down 27.5mpg from Kenosha to my house (~40 miles) tailing a slow semi...averaged almost 23mpg over 200 miles of mixed-but-mostly hwy driving.
Another rental, a nissan altima 2.5S (2.5 4 cylinder, CVT auto), I pulled down 38mpg mixed/mostly hwy driving for a three day period (~300 miles).
Of course, the insight is driven using these techniques, and I routinely pull down 65-75mpg in that...but have gotten into the 80+mpg even more frequently this year.
Use it for what it's worth, bash it, whatever...it's out there, and it does work.
But this article does give plenty of good tips on how you can improve your mileage. The guy in the article has been verified to get as much as 50+mpg from his Honda Accord 4 banger.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveonaCar/Get50MpgInYourOwnCar.aspx?
He's also the founder of http://www.cleanmpg.com
Understand, I don't endorse all his techniques, but I leave it for you to decide what you are willing to do to cut your fuel bill...
When he owned an insight, he set the record for greatest number of miles on a tank (1250+ for a ~ 120mpg average) and set the highest mileage on a closed loop course at 165mpg (for the record, my highest ever, non-loop was 96.5mpg over a similar distance of 17.5 miles).
I've been doing many of the stuff on a couple different vehicles I've had to use over the past few months...with surprising results:
My brothers v6 sebring sedan normally gets ~24mpg mixed with his driving, I was able to average ~34mpg.
A dodge Durango rental (4.7 310hp SOHC v8, 2WD), rated for 21mpg on the hwy, I pulled down 27.5mpg from Kenosha to my house (~40 miles) tailing a slow semi...averaged almost 23mpg over 200 miles of mixed-but-mostly hwy driving.
Another rental, a nissan altima 2.5S (2.5 4 cylinder, CVT auto), I pulled down 38mpg mixed/mostly hwy driving for a three day period (~300 miles).
Of course, the insight is driven using these techniques, and I routinely pull down 65-75mpg in that...but have gotten into the 80+mpg even more frequently this year.
Use it for what it's worth, bash it, whatever...it's out there, and it does work.