In February I bought a 06 HCH which was to be mine, but my mother crashed her car so she borrowed mine... and liked it... and she will have it for an undefinite ammount of time.

At first I thought it was defective because of low mileage (30 mpg), but then I drove it in Querétaro City and got 42 mpg, in Guadalajara and got 39, and in the highway I get 48mpg. So I think now that the problem is the roads of Mexico City, filled of holes and bumps, of traffic and traffic lights, and uphills and downhills...

I have been reading the forums and noted some differences with the 06 HCH described here:

1) Mine doesn't have Daytime Running Lights. The bulbs which are supposed to be used with DRL are used for High Beam lights. That makes my high lights extremely powerful, as the second bulbs are pointed slightly upwards and are very bright.

2) Fuel efficiency is meassured in mpg or km/l, not l/100km. There is no way to display in l/100km.

3) Engine is less powerful. The gasoline engine is rated at 93hp, and the electric motor at 15hp. However, the engine is powerful enough except when you have almost no fuel. In that case I think it switches to some way of fuel-saving mode and cuts power of the gas engine a lot, a couple of times I couldn't get uphill (the engine would sound a lot and go 3000 rpm, with IMA at maximum and still wouldn't run a lot). It feels much more powerless when you have the orange low-gas light on.

4) According to the manual it needs 92 octane gas. (I'm not sure, but I think american version requires 87).

Also, (I could be wrong) but I think the manual is wrong in the part that states that the S in the CVT is for "Second" and is to be used for going uphill, and the L is for "First" and is also for going uphill.

The manual has a funny mistake, it states that the "Mntnc Rqr'd" light is for "Remain Seated in the Correct Position".

Greetings,
Pepe