Hi videian and welcome to the community.
When I bought my car last January I also wanted to get great MPG.
I really didn't know where to start. I'd heard cruise control was best on a conventional car but my HCH wasn't doing all that great with it.
I'd heard some of the Insighter's make a game of getting stellar MPG (+110MPG) so I took thier driving tips & advice and applied it to my HCH.
WOW what a difference.
I'm consistantly getting 58-62MPG on my 45mile twice daily commute, sometimes even more than 65MPG. Tank averages are always around 58MPG, and more than 700 miles to a tank. Occasional family excursions included.
(See the typical pic links in my Signature below)
The Fuel Consumption Display accuracy is verified every other tank.
I'm someone who used to lock cruise control in on my old car at 80-85MPH and swerve around traffic... I've now purged all those bad habbits.
Instead of the exitement of the thrill, I play the exitement of the game.
Along with other techniques I drive about the speed limits now and it adds about 10 minutes to my daily trip.
I don't mind..kind of like playing an arcade game and winning extra time.
Instead of depositing quarters to play you get big $$$ back.
Since I had to scour the web and converse with many Insight gamers for tips, I collected them and Jason was good enough to assist in an article for Greenhybrid.
The article is in the Learning section of this site at:
Driving for Efficiency
I'm certainly NOT saying this is you but so many people buy these cars but retain bad driving habbits. Some may admit bad habbits but expect the car to compensate. Others might think they drive for economy but really aren't aware.
I admit that I go to some non-typical measures to get my MPG but even scaled back to more reasonalble measures I can easily get better than 55-60MPG.
Barring a mechanical malfunction, If I can get these than others can too.
Thanks
Steve