Lets see who can get the best fuel mileage on their crz!

[sneak1413]

Here are the rules. Anyone wanting to try their hand at this game must go for at least 200 miles on a tank before they can compare. They must take a picture of the average fuel economy on their dash of the car along with the mileage of the trip(all will be in one picture). I do not have my crz yet but hopefully within 2 weeks ill be able to try my hand at this as well. I will post a pic up in a bit of the mileage i got on a test drive which is lower than many of you will get and it was only on a 7.8 mile trip. So lets drive some miles and take pics of what you get for mileage. Remember you must have at least 200 miles on the tank before you can post a picture to make it count. Winner gets...Bragging rights

[sneak1413]

[gomarlins3]

Another tank:



The tank I am on presently:

[sneak1413]

Originally Posted by gomarlins3

Thats an impressive start.

[majestic]

cant wait to see results! i don't think i'll ever win this one

[bizzybear]

moved to "mpg" forum!

[smed55]

Originally Posted by sneak1413

Thats an impressive start.

Am I wrong? If you are averaging 42.9 and you still have a range of 343 miles, and you already have driven 200.7, that would be about 543 miles on that tank which would be over 51mpg, if you continued at that pace.

If my car says I'm averaging 42.9 with 200 miles on it, my range should only be another 230 miles. Again, am I wrong?

[dfried]

I'm assuming trip A has some relationship to the milage.

[gomarlins3]

Originally Posted by smed55

Am I wrong? If you are averaging 42.9 and you still have a range of 343 miles, and you already have driven 200.7, that would be about 543 miles on that tank which would be over 51mpg, if you continued at that pace.

If my car says I'm averaging 42.9 with 200 miles on it, my range should only be another 230 miles. Again, am I wrong?

What I have found is that the "Range" will fluctuate depending on the past few miles driven. What I mean is I can be averaging over 43 MPG, but if I go up a two mile long hill (the one I go up leaving work) at 55 MPH, the range will drop considerably as the MPG also goes down to 41 MPG. Once up on the flat area of the hill, my MPG will start to go back up, but the Range will also start to climb, but at a much higher rate.

I am guessing (those pictures were taken awhile ago) that I had been driving using some hypermilageing (sp?) techniques just before taking those pics. Thus the Range would be really high, but the MPG wouldn't have gone up significantly after having 200+ miles on the tank already.

[Dio]

Not the best but it's the latest picture.