Jayblues wrote:
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I do 70 on the freeways on short trips, faster on longer ones. I do not do more than 25% of my miles of the freeway...I don't want to pulse my gas pedal for 200 highway miles to garner the value I thought was inherent in this vehicle...I got 33 MPG on my vacation. I drove fast on the freeway(75-80), but that number is ridiculously poor
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I was going to include some tips in my last post that may help in block to block stop & go traffic, but if I read Jayblues post he isn't very interested in modifying his driving style very much, but rather let the car do most of that and not to think too much about it.
That is a reasonable position, Sometimes I drive my Grand Caravan that way and it drops about 5-7MPG. I haven't owned a small car in many years and don't know how other...say Civics perform in this regard but I know that if you drive the HCH hard you'll get 30's MPG, and at the other extreme is better than 60.
Thats a huge MPG spread difference between my HCH and Caravan for the given driving styles. For this reason I beleive driving skills play an especially strong roll in Hybird performance.