Power: 201 horsepower, 170 foot-pounds of torque With the extra gusto and good looks, it’s easy to see why consumers, young and young at heart, still say Si to this ride. It does offer a 60/40 split folding rear bench, so there is some flexibility. With 11.7 cubic feet of trunk space, it’s not overly voluminous, but more than adequate. In fact, sightlines weren’t a problem at all in the Si. With a sloped roofline, you might expect visibility out the rear to be affected, but that is not the case here. The rear bench is pretty comfortable, though, so don’t be shy and hop in. This being a coupe, one that is low to the ground, access to the rear can be challenging for some. The audio system? Yeah, the Si gets a pretty nice one with seven speakers and a subwoofer, but I kept it off most of the time and let the car to do the signing. Leave us your thoughts in the Comments below.įollow GreenCarReports on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. What do you think? Were we fair in our response? What is your mix of city and highway miles? If you're using the car largely for low-speed stop-and-go, with lots of stopping, accelerating, and braking, it'll do worse than if you lock it into cruise control at the legal highway speed limit.įinally, if you live in a place with cold weather, that reduces mileage compared to temperatures of 70 degrees (low enough so you don't need to use the air conditioning, which also reduces gas mileage). Perhaps try driving as if you have an egg between your foot and the accelerator-accelerating gently, planning ahead so the car can coast down to stops-and see if that makes a difference? The three factors that most affect mileage are (a) driving style (b) mix of city and highway use and (c) temperature.įor driving style, if you're aggressive-accelerating hard, using the brakes a lot-your mileage will be worse. To sum up, it sounds like you're getting gas mileage that's a bit lower than the combined rating, and lower than the reported real-world mileage from other owners. Honda does well, whereas Ford products consistently underachieve.Īs for your dash computer, Edmunds found that the average dash computer is 5.5 percent optimistic-but those from some makers are considerably worse. In general, as we've written, some makers vary more from their EPA ratings than others. So you're considerably below those reported real-world averages. Similarly, Fuelly shows (across both manual and automatic Civics) an average of 35.0 mpg. That said, the EPA website for your model shows that 12 owners submitted real-world gas-mileage readings that average 35.1 mpg. You say you're getting 29 mpg, or about 10 percent lower than 32 mpg-which is within a reasonable margin of error. I presume you're driving the car in mixed use-around town, some city traffic, some highway miles-so you should expect to average the *combined* rating of 32 mpg. Some shoppers miss the qualification, and assume the car gets that gas mileage under all circumstances, which it won't. Unfortunately, carmakers often advertise the highest of the three ratings (the highway number), with the number shown very large and the "highway" qualifier very small. When you write, "the gas model was supposed to get 38 mpg," that appears to be its highway rating-which you would only achieve if you covered all your miles at highway speeds of about 65 mph. The 2013 Honda Civic with the automatic transmission is rated by the EPA at 32 mpg combined (28 mpg city, 39 mpg highway). I fear you may have overly high expectations for the gas mileage of the car you bought. Witte is clearly unhappy with his Civic's gas mileage, which is understandable.īut there's some context missing, and his note seems to be a perfect case of the maxim, "Your mileage may vary." Then when I brought the car in for an oil change, the service manager told me cars sold in California never get the MPG presented on the sticker and even less in the winter months, because of our clean-air policies. One said: Wait until the engine is broken in. When I asked the Honda sales and service folks what was going on, I get mixed messages. While I like the Civic, my main reason for buying the gas-only model versus the hybrid was that the gas model was supposed to get 38 mpg. I have used the car's on board computer which seems to inflate the actual mpg and then manual calculations of what I filled the tank in number of gallons to cross check. I have almost 5,000 miles on a 2013 Honda Civic EX and I have yet to average 29 miles city and highway.
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