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Hello All,

Just was wondering what people have been experiencing with their '01
Accord (4DR, 4Cyl, Automatic) for fuel consumption. I've been monitoring
mine for the past few weeks. I found that on a 600km trip I used 50L of
gas - on the highway (12km/L or about 27mpg). In city it's about 170km
per 25L of gas (6.8 km/L or about 15.5 mpg).

I would appreciate anyone else's findings or suggestions on improving my
mileage. Thank you.

.... this is almost exactly what I see on the highway in my '99 Accord (also
4dr/4 cyl/automatic).

I can bank on 725 km on 60 litres of gas, which gives me 8.3 litres per 100
km, or using your measurement, 12 km / litre.) This is worse than the
published highway number, but then I have considerable difficulty driving at
90 km/hr. If I were to do so, the number would be better. If you drive
between 110 and 120 km, this is what you can expect.

I think that your conversion from metric to imperial units may be in error.
It appears to me that you're calculating your miles per gallon in US gallons
rather than imperial ones.

12 km / litre * (0.621 mi / km) * (4.55 l / imperial gallon) = 33.9 miles /
imperial gallon

or in US units

12 km / litre * (0.621 mi / km) * (3.78 l / US gallon) = 28 miles / US
gallon




"Ghassan Ktabi" <gus@ottawa.com> wrote in message
news:3FD1FB4A.FD0C4F38@ottawa.com...
> Hello All,
>
> Just was wondering what people have been experiencing with their '01
> Accord (4DR, 4Cyl, Automatic) for fuel consumption. I've been monitoring
> mine for the past few weeks. I found that on a 600km trip I used 50L of
> gas - on the highway (12km/L or about 27mpg). In city it's about 170km
> per 25L of gas (6.8 km/L or about 15.5 mpg).
>
> I would appreciate anyone else's findings or suggestions on improving my
> mileage. Thank you.
>

"Ghassan Ktabi" <gus@ottawa.com> wrote in message
news:3FD1FB4A.FD0C4F38@ottawa.com...
> Hello All,
>
> Just was wondering what people have been experiencing with their '01
> Accord (4DR, 4Cyl, Automatic) for fuel consumption. I've been monitoring
> mine for the past few weeks. I found that on a 600km trip I used 50L of
> gas - on the highway (12km/L or about 27mpg). In city it's about 170km
> per 25L of gas (6.8 km/L or about 15.5 mpg).
>
> I would appreciate anyone else's findings or suggestions on improving my
> mileage. Thank you.

I have a '01 Accord V6, that regularly gives me between 34 and 39 mpg on the
highway and 28 to 32 mpg in town. I use cruise as much as possible, no
really hard acceleration, and brakes only when absolutely necessary.

--
Brian
www.accesswave.ca/~orion

I have a 02' Accord automatic. Running on regular, mixed driving (70%
highway, 30% local), average about 25-27 miles/ US gallon.

"Ghassan Ktabi" <gus@ottawa.com> wrote in message
news:3FD1FB4A.FD0C4F38@ottawa.com...
> Hello All,
>
> Just was wondering what people have been experiencing with their '01
> Accord (4DR, 4Cyl, Automatic) for fuel consumption. I've been monitoring
> mine for the past few weeks. I found that on a 600km trip I used 50L of
> gas - on the highway (12km/L or about 27mpg). In city it's about 170km
> per 25L of gas (6.8 km/L or about 15.5 mpg).
>
> I would appreciate anyone else's findings or suggestions on improving my
> mileage. Thank you.
>