On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:23:00 -0400, "A. Smith" <ecarecar@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Honda's web site says the 2006 Civic gets EPA
>38 mpg with the manual transmission and 40 mpg
>with the automatic.
>
>What's "wrong" here?

nothing. in a contrived and non-realistic test one gets better figures
than another. Its a lot easier to program a computer to shift at
different times, than it is to get a person to shift at the optimum
times for these STATIC tests.