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Originally Posted by MBK
hell no im not kidding why would i be... how are you calculating this and more importantly how are you driving and how do you know somethings wrong with his car... ive had three new cars in the past year and a half and my mpg has always been a bit lower than what is being claimed online... if anything i think there is something wrong with honesty online, sorry but thats what i think.
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Now we are talking about the Civic Si, correct!? And you are saying that you are only getting 18mpg city? Now, I don't know about you but that does seem a little low to me. I agree sometimes you can't go by the sticker and I too had several different cars that were below the advertised mileage. For instance my wife's Grand Cherokee with the standard V-8 was advertised as 17 City and 20 Highway. She is getting about 12mpg city and about 17 mpg highway. I had a Dodge Charger Daytona which I got rid off because of the lousy gas mileage. I think Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep always is too optimistic on their stickers. My Ford Mustang was right on the money and the Golf GTI I had actually got a couple of mpg better than sticker. This Honda Si is my first Honda "CAR", I have had several Honda Motorcycles and still have a 1800 VTX C which is a great bike and that's why I thought give Honda Cars a try. So far I like the little Si and it was right on the money as far as advertised gas mileage goes. It has pretty much stayed the same over 9 months that I have owned it. The first time I have checked mileage. It was right at 24.3 mpg then after that it pretty much stayed in the 25.3-25.6 mpg range. Now that is mostly city driving and some rush hour highway stop and go which is worse than any of the city driving I do. I did a few mods like Intake and exhaust etc. which didn't really effect the mileage very much but now that I have almost 9000 miles on the car it is getting around 25.8 - 26.4 mpg pretty consistantly no matter if I get on it a few times or if I drive like a grandpa. I am not overly hard on the car and just drive it the way I feel it should be driven.
I don't hit VTEC every single day but on other days I have hit it several times.
It just depends on the driving situation and my mood.
I never have taken a long trip on the highway but I would estimate that it should get at the very least about 28-30 mpg highway. I don't think it will get much more to be honest.
Heck, I don't have any reason to lie to you about my gas mileage. I have calculated gas mileage in my vehicles for a very long time and know how to do it the proper way. So, all I am saying if you are getting 18mpg I would take the car to Honda and have them put it on a diagnostic and see if the ignition if working properly or if the injectors might be clogged.
Personally, if I would get that lousy of a mileage in a 4 cylinder car i would have it looked at or sell the damn thing. My brother has an old Mercury Marquis with a 4.6 V-8 and it gets 20mpg average so I know your car can do better than 18mpg. But that's just me, maybe you are perfectly happy getting that kind of mileage in your Civic.
