On 5/12/2007 7:54 AM Elmo P. Shagnasty spake these words of knowledge:

> In article <4645af4f$0$8963$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
> Dave Kelsen <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> > 30 only. My 4 banger auto 2003 Accord gets 34 to 37 at 70-80 mph w/
>> > passengers. But even better than that, it's paid for.
>>
>> Hold on to that car.
>>
>> My 4 cylinder auto 2003 Accord has never gotten 34 mpg on any tank, with
>> all maintenance faithfully done and tire pressure properly maintained.
>> Over 101,704 miles, I have gotten 27.77 mpg (3,662.12 gallons) - and a
>> lot of those miles are highway miles.
>>
>> Granting that a lot of those were at 80-85 rather than 70-80 mph, I find
>> your mileage estimates amazing.
>
> Huh. My 2000 Accord--a jewel of engineering, 4 cylinders and manual
> transmission--regularly got 35mpg going up and down the mountains in
> summer with the AC on--and 75-80mph was very common.
>
> It's no surprise that a newer design would get 34 to 37 with passengers.
>
> It's also no surprise that your automatic trans model gets a bit
> less--but 28 lifetime with mostly highway miles? Should be more than
> that, I'd think, unless you had a BUNCH of very very short trips in very
> cold weather in there to drag it way down.
>
> You're stating a lifetime average. Do you have any tank to tank numbers
> you can share? Did you ever get 34 to 37 on a tank, given that most of
> your tanks were probably all highway miles?

I have all of them. You can see them up to a year ago here:

http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/misc/

click on the link 'mileage.xls'. I meant to delete my own car info when
I sent Tegger the spreadsheet, but forgot, so it's there to see. As I
said earlier, I *never* got 34 mpg.

One very interesting thing to me is the record of the cost of gasoline
in my area over the last four years...

RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
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