A thread for fellow hypermilers

[Cruzer2424]

Originally Posted by MB1

Let's see......

0.0gallons of gas/35,000 miles a year

Looks like Miss M and I get better mileage than a Prius.

You ride 35,000 miles a year?

Or your mileage + Miss M's...?

[Cruzer2424]

Originally Posted by vonteity

The "traction control" on the Prius is downright dangerous. I've almost gotten hit a few times or rear-ended someone when the wheels skip over a pothole or it decides a little wheel slip (even on dry pavement!) means it should shut off the engine (read: cut all power). It's like driving a very slow bucking bronco. I'm waiting for it to cause enough accidents that Toyota issues a massive recall to fix it. I've also had problems with the brakes cutting out in the same situations. I wonder if that is the traction control too, or ABS? I had ABS in my last car and never once felt as if the car was careening out of control when it kicked in. It's a scary situation.

Hmm... You're not the first person I've heard that from.

http://priuschat.com/forums/prius-te...n-control.html

[Touch0Gray]

Originally Posted by MikeBiker

What video games can you play with that system?

Grand MPG Auto.........

[Kram]

No dude. That is HIS mileage. MissM's is probably a bit more. SRSLY.

[Cruzer2424]

Originally Posted by Kram

No dude. That is HIS mileage. MissM's is probably a bit more. SRSLY.

You realize that is a hair under a century every day, right? ... EVERY DAY. If it's just his, I'm almost positive that's some kind of a record.

I've met a lot of RAAM'ers and Great Divide racers, and they don't even put in that much.

http://www.dannychew.com/

Danny Chew won RAAM twice, and his biggest year ever was around 27,000.

[Kram]

It's probably combined. My bad. But even that is pretty friggin amazing, dontcha think?

[Mapei]

Back in the late 1960's with my Fiat 850, I'd get 35 mpg in pure city driving (L.A.), and about 40 mpg in combined city and highway driving. One day on PCH heading south from Big Sur to Santa Barbara I averaged 50 mpg. Of course, I only got those numbers when the automobile actually worked.

[Cruzer2424]

Originally Posted by Mapei

Back in the late 1960's with my Fiat 850, I'd get 35 mpg in pure city driving (L.A.), and about 40 mpg in combined city and highway driving. One day on PCH heading south from Big Sur to Santa Barbara I averaged 50 mpg. Of course, I only got those numbers when the automobile actually worked.

Whoa. Was it diesel?

[GirchyGirchy]

Originally Posted by Cruzer2424

Whoa. Was it diesel?

No, doofus....look up the Fiat 850. When cars are that small and light, good mileage on a gas engine is easy. If it had a diesel, it'd likely have gotten 70 mpg or so.

Remember the Geo Metro? Those could be had with a 1L 3-cyl engine, and were rated at 53/58. Cars get great mileage if they're small, light, and simple....can't really buy that anymore.

[OldRoadGuy]

[GirchyGirchy]

Originally Posted by physasst

Maybe I should get a Chevy with the V10.....OH YEAH....

Chevy doesn't make a V10, only Ford and Dodge. And Dodge discontinued theirs in the truck, so Ford's 6.8L is the only V10 truck engine available.

You should wait a couple of years until the V8 diesels come out for the half-ton trucks.

[MR_GRUMPY]

Best I ever did was a hair under 41 mpg, going up to Kenosha, for a race. 60 MPH max speed. (my car says 36mpg hi-way)
Worst ever was about 9-10 mpg in a huge 70's Ford LTD wagon win a 400 cid V-8, at 75-80 mph

[CaliBuddha]

You can hack into your Prius and get over 100 mpg.

[wankski]

thats pretty cool... but its a small car anyways... it will be sweet when that technology comes to mainstream mid and large size cars, so that u can have displacement on demand and hybrid technology in 6s and 8s for example... it is rather silly to have an idling engine in traffic really.... that and 85E is the immediate future methinks.... while other cars like diesels may get good mileage, they are still plenty wasteful... diesels may boast low C02, but what of particulate emissions?? the europeans are doing the hybrid diesel thing, so that should be interesting...

[Cruzer2424]

Originally Posted by GirchyGirchy

No, doofus....look up the Fiat 850. When cars are that small and light, good mileage on a gas engine is easy. If it had a diesel, it'd likely have gotten 70 mpg or so.

Remember the Geo Metro? Those could be had with a 1L 3-cyl engine, and were rated at 53/58. Cars get great mileage if they're small, light, and simple....can't really buy that anymore.

Dude. Those cars were around before I was born.

[Touch0Gray]

Originally Posted by Mapei

Back in the late 1960's with my Fiat 850, I'd get 35 mpg in pure city driving (L.A.), and about 40 mpg in combined city and highway driving. One day on PCH heading south from Big Sur to Santa Barbara I averaged 50 mpg. Of course, I only got those numbers when the automobile actually worked.

LOL.....yeah I had an 850 spyder....omg talk about fun yet TOTALLY underpowered cars....my wife's sewing machine has more power than it did.

I used to drive it for weeks on a fillup, (was it about 6 gallons? can't remember) gas was $.32 a gallon....

I had so much fun with that car.......till it rusted through and the seat fell to the ground (2 years old...LOL)

[GirchyGirchy]

Originally Posted by Cruzer2424

Dude. Those cars were around before I was born.

I can't believe you've never seen one...those things look like tons of fun.

I may have to get something like that when I sell the Caprice, to give me something else to work on....a Fiat Spyder, Alfa Spyder, MG, Triumph, etc.

[rkj__]

Originally Posted by GirchyGirchy

Remember the Geo Metro? Those could be had with a 1L 3-cyl engine, and were rated at 53/58. Cars get great mileage if they're small, light, and simple....can't really buy that anymore.

[Touch0Gray]

the dodge colt vista was another one...I've had 3...always over 40 - 45 mpg and my bike rack was PERFECT on the back, lived there for YEARS

[Touch0Gray]

I had my eye on an 850 spyder a couple of years ago...they wanted 1500 for it which was MORE than it was new....fact is they were FUN but they weren't that good a car...I passed on it. It was red....had it been that "butterscotch" looking color like my first one I might have pulled the trigger

[GirchyGirchy]

Originally Posted by Touch0Gray

I had my eye on an 850 spyder a couple of years ago...they wanted 1500 for it which was MORE than it was new....fact is they were FUN but they weren't that good a car...I passed on it. It was red....had it been that "butterscotch" looking color like my first one I might have pulled the trigger

Buy it and mail it to me. It'll probably fit in a small box.

[pl8ster]

30mpg around town in my '03 Accord, mid-30s on the highway (record is 38 for a tank).

But I just started doing the 3rd-to-5th upshift on my current tank and unless something is wrong with the gas gauge, am *way* ahead of where I usually am.

[MB1]

Originally Posted by Cruzer2424

You ride 35,000 miles a year?

Or your mileage + Miss M's...?

For the last 10 years or so Miss M bounces up against 20,000 miles (she is looking real good to be over this year), I get in a bit less.

[Kram]

Slacker

[Mapei]

My Fiat 850 did 0-60 in 16 agonizing seconds. I once took it to 85 mph. It sounded like it was going to fly apart. With that thrashy-sounding engine about a foot and a half behind th driver's seat, I was always twisting my neck backwards, thinking a truck was on my tail. By the time the machine was about 4 years old, it wouldn't start when the weather was cloudy, much less raining. It needed the heat of the sun on its hood (er, trunk) in order for it to want to wake up. But lemme tell 'ya -- a true, true chick magnet.