Sounds like a sales person... buncha words, makes no sense whatsoever. But
it does use a lot of optimistic sounding words though... gotta love the
psychology classes these days :/

"Pars" <sdaro(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> If you're light on the gas pedal, the most agreeable fuel will return the
> best mileage (assuming there is no engine knocking).
>
> Pars
>
> "John Ings" <nodamned@spam.org> wrote in message
> news:1cuv51t5539rv8avv3mgi79h2flugj23jo@4ax.com...
> > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:10:28 -0400, Douglas Dou
> > <douglas_dou@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > >I have a civic 05. My dealer told me that I could just use 87 gasoline
> > >as fuel. I followed his advice and have been using it for four months.
> > >However, this morning when I checked the user manual, I found that I am
> > >supposed to use 91. It amazed me since in my mind 91 is for luxury car,
> > >which my civic apparently is not. Is there any deep reason why Civic
has
> > >to use 91? I'd appreciate if you could share me your thought.
> >
> > Lately Honda seems to be engaging in a marketing ploy. Premium fuel is
> > expensive, and people aren't inclined to buy cars that need it, so
> > trusting to the efficiency of its engine knock sensors Honda has
> > recently been recommending regular gas for some of its products that
> > could really use premium! In those cars, the owner's manual says use
> > regular, but premium really will get you another ten HP or so! How do
> > you tell? Well short of a dyno test, check your compression ratio. As
> > a rough rule of thumb (there are a lot of variables) a 9.2 to 1
> > compression ratio Integra 1.8 litre engine only needs 86 octane, while
> > a 10 to 1 VTEC engine needs 91 octane to produce full power.
> >
> > See also http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/faq.html#premium
> >
> >
>
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