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Crediton-Plymouth (50 miles, mainly dual carriageway).

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That's about right really.
 
My trip is showing 54mpg and just shy of 3000 miles traveled, could possibley get 56 if i traveled like a granny everywhere and dont get my silly moments :D

Honda Civic IMA 1.3 petrol Hybrid 2004, not a bad MPG considering the size of the car

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54mpg from a focus sized car isn't that impressive really, you'd get 40 from a 1.6 and mid 50s from a diesel. Not enough to warrant the cost and complexity of a hybrid IMO
 
Lol IMA complex?... Fail. You dont even know what types of trip it does.

It can't change the laws of physics and it's already down on energy content over a diesel.

Impressive figures if you ask me'. I think this year has lean burn? Is it a manual?
 
iaind said:
54mpg from a focus sized car isn't that impressive really, you'd get 40 from a 1.6 and mid 50s from a diesel. Not enough to warrant the cost and complexity of a hybrid IMO
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Indeed, I spent most of last week hacking around in a Passat Bluemotion, all the toys (inc. reversing camera) and well, I drove it 'enthusiastically' for the duration - and still averaged about 60 to the gallon.

Doing 60mph on the cruise would result in the TC reading something like 80-100mpg :D

Certainly didn't leave you wanting!
 
Did you verify the trip computer was actually correct though, impressive on a big car though!

Worth noting a passat blue is more complex than this Civic plus if were looking at cheap motoring this is at the bottom of any depreciation. Just dunno why the usual vitriol has to come out whenever hybrids are mentioned. If the civic was a 1.2 turbo people would be impressed with 54!
 
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Hybrids are a pointless fad IMO, any sort of meaningful journey and youre lugging batteries around for nothing

Of course modern cr diesels are more complex, but IMA is still something more to go wrong and vie never really seen real world figures to convince me that it's worth the extra cost. Despite the op saying it's a big car, it is just a civic....
 
Jonnycoupe said:
Did you verify the trip computer was actually correct though, impressive on a big car though!

Worth noting a passat blue is more complex than this Civic plus if were looking at cheap motoring this is at the bottom of any depreciation. Just dunno why the usual vitriol has to come out whenever hybrids are mentioned. If the civic was a 1.2 turbo people would be impressed with 54!
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No, not personally - the 'average' on the TC was showing 65-odd, so I reckoned it was probably about 60 in real life :)

The 80-100 is just the instantaneous readout, not a tank-to-tank reading :D

I think the vitriol comes out when people see things like Honda's new Jazz hybrid, that is quoted to do 64mpg - and doesn't qualify for free tax - then realise a similar cost Polo bluemotion does 74 quoted, and qualifies for free tax..........so they get all 'OMFG' and 'WTF', sometimes not entirely unjustified....
 
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iaind said:
Hybrids are a pointless fad IMO, any sort of meaningful journey and youre lugging batteries around for nothing

Of course modern cr diesels are more complex, but IMA is still something more to go wrong and vie never really seen real world figures to convince me that it's worth the extra cost. Despite the op saying it's a big car, it is just a civic....
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More to go wrong where? System adds 60kg across the car. A diesel iron engine, turbo, intercooler, DFP add similar.

The guys post is an example of real world?
 
Lashout_UK said:
No, not personally - the 'average' on the TC was showing 65-odd, so I reckoned it was probably about 60 in real life :)

The 80-100 is just the instantaneous readout, not a tank-to-tank reading :D

I think the vitriol comes out when people see things like Honda's new Jazz hybrid, that is quoted to do 64mpg - and doesn't qualify for free tax - then realise a similar cost Polo bluemotion does 74 quoted, and qualifies for free tax..........so they get all 'OMFG' and 'WTF', sometimes not entirely unjustified....
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Eh? It has to do sub 100g for free tax. I haven't seen the official jazz Uk government figures for fake pollution but if you look at company car BIK the insight much cheaper due to petrol not accruing +3%.
 
Which I don't think is that impressive. 50 odd mpg from a smallish car with a small petrol engine? Doable without the IMA, or close enough anyway
 
iaind said:
Which I don't think is that impressive. 50 odd mpg from a smallish car with a small petrol engine? Doable without the IMA, or close enough anyway
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But it's a 1.3 with similar grunt to a 1.6 thanks to IMA.. . you clearly just have no idea what you are talking about. It's bettered the 1.6 focus figure you conjectured anyway :s
 
I do 120 trips round trips once a week which involves motor way and then some nasty hill's for atleast 10 miles hehe, most of other driving is either town driving or dual carriage way with a number of traffic lights / roundabouts on way to work.

Can get 600 miles to a take usualy so a full tank usualy lasts me 2 week's

Only problem I have had with this car is an Oxygen Sensor going and a normal car battery which needed replacing other than that its great for what it is.

can seat 5 people comfortably with a large boot space, full leather seat's with electric heated front, Air Con and £35 a year tax.

It does seems to have more poke than you would think from a 1.3 engine and the size of the car, especialy when you are say just rolling towards the lights slowly rather than a full on stand still start. Im not a expert but seems the electric assisting motor add's a nice bit of torque to the acceleration :D

I am on the look out for a cheap car to replace it with I admit but thats only cause im looking to buy a house hopefully.
 
Our audi 2.5 v6 DTI was about 50mpg as it did over 600miles on a full tank, but just replaced it with a vectra 2.0 DTI, so Im guessing that will do about the same.
 
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But it's a 1.3 with similar grunt to a 1.6 thanks to IMA.. . you clearly just have no idea what you are talking about. It's bettered the 1.6 focus figure you conjectured anyway :s
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No I don't know as much about them as someone who works in that industry, obviously and I never claimed to. And yes, I get that you're a massive advocate of hybrids and anyone who isn't is a clueless idiot....

My point was I'm not convinced, compare it to a 1.6 and it only slighty betters it in economy terms. The op said his usage profile is long journeys, dual carriagewys and the like. My old 1.8 accord does 40 with that sort of use, i fail to believe a smaller car with a smaller more modern engine couldnt touch 50.

Looking at used prices, you're paying another grand for an IMA civic over a normal one. People harp on about diesels being more expensive to buy, but they're never 20% more. I also knew someone who had a prius at the same time I had my mondeo - his average mpg was actually lower than mine.

So no, I'm not convinced, there are numerous more arguments about the environmental impact of production etc etc but that's a different thread
 
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