lo and behold... my gas guzzling fit...

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09-22-2010, 11:23 AM

Steve244

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Originally Posted by ThEvil0nE

Taking all response in account... I went on to find the farthest Honda service/dealership for it's first service.

So there you go... the Fit doing it's best on highway and a little city.

Am I sitting on a lemon? I don't think so.
Is it the way I drive? I don't think so.
Is it the driving situation? YES.

The FIT will do wonders and surpass sticker mpg when driven highway with a few city. Pure city driving will yield -/+ sticker. Pure city driving with my driving situation (please refer to my first post) is where the FIT really hurts.

My FIT mpg summary:
Pure highway: Excellent
Highway + City: Good
City: Fair
City + same driving situation as mine: FAIL (this is not the FIT's forte)

Sounds like you'd be an ideal candidate for a hybrid; the fail conditions for the Fit are where hybrid technology excels. But with the few miles you drive per year you'd take forever to save in gasoline the extra a hybrid costs. And I don't know how the Insight is, but the Prius wasn't fun to drive (for the week I drove a 2010).

You haven't posted your average mpg, but I hope it's better than 15mpg.

If it was 20mpg and a hybrid gave you 40mpg, over 3,000 miles in a year you would save 75 gallons. At $3.00/gal (future price?) you'd only save $225 per year. Even at 15 and 50 mpg you'd only save 140gals or $420 per year. I'd keep the Fit unless you'd love to have a hybrid.

Last edited by Steve244; 09-22-2010 at 11:34 AM.