question about car

[Ho_Nam]

How do you know which car is gas efficient?
Also i heard a Camry saves lots of gas but i waste $30 to fill to the top every 13-15 days and I only drive to school and maybe once in a while go out on the weekend. Is Camry a gas efficient car or what?

[hhnguyen]

get Hydrid Civic. you can get over 40 MPG.

[cis]

Tell us what year of your camry and how miles on the car......


Get Prius or honda insight = 60 miles per gallon :) :)


I spend like $120 for gas every month

[wonnahump]

my 04 accord coupe 4 cyclinders take up 350 a full 14 gallon tank

[TriCkyS]

my old acura rsx type s used to go for 280miles with a 13gal tank and i thought it was good

[Nam]

The most efficient car on the North America market is Toyota Prius, rated at 62MPG. Supprisingly, it's more fuel efficient driving on city rather than Fwy. The completely opposite happens to conventional ICE vehicles.

Camry is rated about 27MHP depending on vehicle condition and driver's harbit.

Believe me or not, but driving harbit can be entitled for 30% in variation of fuel consumtion (happens to me).

Hope this helps,

Nam

[lowlife4ever]

Get a Prius or Civic, enjoy gas efficient, and legally drive in carpool lane alone in California

[Nam]

Get a Prius or Civic, enjoy gas efficient, and legally drive in carpool lane alone in California

Low life::

For what I know, only zero emission vehicles get the ride-alone carpool lane sticker. Hybrid vehicles are partial zero emission vehicles.

ARB (Air Resource Board) said:

Why can't the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight get a carpool lane sticker?

Answer: The hybrid vehicles currently offered for sale in California do not meet the requirements of AB71, the bill that allows some single-occupant vehicles to use the state's high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes. The bill, authored by Assemblyman Jim Cunneen, lists eligible vehicles as those that have been certified to both the ARB’s Super Ultra Low Emission Vehicle (SULEV) standard or better, AND the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (U.S. EPA) Inherently Low Emission Vehicle (ILEV) standard. While the ARB’s SULEV standard encompasses many vehicles that run on gasoline, the U.S. EPA’s ILEV standard effectively eliminates any gasoline vehicle from eligibility under AB71. The stringent ILEV standard limits AB71’s eligibility for single-occupant use of the state's 1,159 miles of HOV lanes to electric vehicles or those that run on compressed natural gas or liquid petroleum gas (propane).

Eligible vehicle owners must first obtain an identification sticker from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The provisions of AB 71 are effective until December 31, 2007. Following this date, vehicles that meet both SULEV and ILEV standards will not be permitted in the HOV lanes without meeting the minimum posted occupancy requirement.

While the hybrid vehicles currently offered in California are very clean vehicles, they do fall short of the EVs and alternative fuel vehicles in several key areas and are not eligible for single occupant HOV lane use. Even when counting power plant emissions, ZEVs offer significant reductions over hybrids and these emission rates improve over time due to the fact that hybrids produce more emissions as they age. In addition, gasoline powered vehicles have large emissions contributions due to the "upstream" pollution of refineries and fuel distribution.

The SULEV standards, like all ARB requirements, are performance based. That is, they are fuel and technology neutral with alternative fuels receiving no special advantage over gasoline cars – every vehicle, no matter what its fuel, must meet the same emissions standards. This approach has resulted in gasoline vehicles achieving very low emissions levels – levels thought to be impossible just a few years ago.

SULEV vehicles also meeting the U.S. EPA ILEV standard can best be described as the "cleanest of the clean," being surpassed only by zero emission pure electric vehicles. In other words, while SULEVs have very low tailpipe emissions, only those vehicles meeting the additional requirements of the ILEV standard offer significant additional lifetime emission reductions and are eligible for the incentive offered by AB 71.

For addition information about qualifying vehicles please contact the ARB Motor Vehicle Information Hotline at (800) 242-4450.

Nam

[aznblood]

Honda makes the one of the best cars in term of Liter to Horse power comparision.
Liter is the total volumetric displacement of the piston. The higher the Liter (displacement), the more gas it uses and more power output. If you compare the Horse power to Liter ratio to other brands such as Mercedes, Nissan, VW, Ford etc, Honda out performs other competitors. A classical example is the Honda S2000 vs other brands: merc benz slk230, lexus sc400, porche boxster.

By the way, what you are paying for gas isn't bad. Aznblood pays $16 every three days for gas.

[Nam]

Honda makes the one of the best cars in term of Liter to Horse power comparision.
Liter is the total volumetric displacement of the piston. The higher the Liter (displacement), the more gas it uses and more power output. If you compare the Horse power to Liter ratio to other brands such as Mercedes, Nissan, VW, Ford etc, Honda out performs other competitors. A classical example is the Honda S2000 vs other brands: merc benz slk230, lexus sc400, porche boxster.

By the way, what you are paying for gas isn't bad. Aznblood pays $16 every three days for gas.

That's a great analogy; however, depending on certain applications, HP and Torque needs to be side by side when performing comparation. An V6 4.0L can pump out 245HP but over 285 ft-lbs of torqure at just 3400 RMP. The biggest Honda's engine V6 3.5L can produce 240HP and 240ft-lbs of torque as well.

Nam

[ConChimSe]

The biggest Honda's engine V6 3.5L can produce 240HP and 240ft-lbs of torque as well.

Nam

Nam,
Isn't the MDX a Honda? It's a V6 3.5L and rated 265 peak HP. So yours is not the "Biggest"?

:flying: :flying:

[Nam]

Nam,
Isn't the MDX a Honda? It's a V6 3.5L and rated 265 peak HP. So yours is not the "Biggest"?

:flying: :flying:

Oh yeah, I forgot about the intake modification of that same engine to pump out 25HP more.

Nam

[seanguyen]

my 04 accord coupe 4 cyclinders take up 350 a full 14 gallon tank
That's good if you drive in the city.
25mpg is not bad for city driving and if it is the case, it can be 33 to 35 mpg on highway, which is very please :)

[seanguyen]

my old acura rsx type s used to go for 280miles with a 13gal tank and i thought it was good
21.5mpg for 4 cylinder engine is not that efficiency, bro.
My old Prelude (of course cannot compare to your RSX in term of speed or HP or torques) could produce 25-27mpg in the city.
My new Accord V6 has 22-23mpg in the city and around 30mpg on highway.

[seanguyen]

Tui hổng rành dzề xe mấy nhưng tui thấy hễ xe nào mà nòng xilanh nhỏ (thì ít tốn nhiên liệu) mà có thể tạo được nhiều mã lực và torque thì tui khoái à, còn xe nào mã lực thiệt nhiều nhưng cái nòng xilanh tổ chảng thì cũng không có gì là hay ho lắm, ví dụ: Nissan. Nòng xilanh bự cho nên tốn xăng và mã lực thì lại rất mạnh. Hông có gì hay ho cả. Nhiều xe có 4 nòng xilanh à mà cũng có thể tạo được 200HP, lại ít tốn xăng.
Chiếc Honda Accord V6 thì nòng 3.2L, có 240HP, ít tốn xăng hơn mấy xe khác :D
Chiếc Acura TL còn ngầu hơn nữa, nòng 3.2L, lên tới 270HP, tốn xăng ngang bằng với chiếc Accord :D

[Nam]

Tui hổng rành dzề xe mấy nhưng tui thấy hễ xe nào mà nòng xilanh nhỏ (thì ít tốn nhiên liệu) mà có thể tạo được nhiều mã lực và torque thì tui khoái à, còn xe nào mã lực thiệt nhiều nhưng cái nòng xilanh tổ chảng thì cũng không có gì là hay ho lắm, ví dụ: Nissan. Nòng xilanh bự cho nên tốn xăng và mã lực thì lại rất mạnh. Hông có gì hay ho cả. Nhiều xe có 4 nòng xilanh à mà cũng có thể tạo được 200HP, lại ít tốn xăng.
Chiếc Honda Accord V6 thì nòng 3.2L, có 240HP, ít tốn xăng hơn mấy xe khác :D
Chiếc Acura TL còn ngầu hơn nữa, nòng 3.2L, lên tới 270HP, tốn xăng ngang bằng với chiếc Accord :D

Agree!

If your car consumes excess fuel, two things to check for:

1. Driver's harbit, accelerate slowly, maintain constant speed, brake adequately, let off the gas pedal way before stop signs or red lights when safe. Also, use the highest gear when possible.

2. Vehicle conditions: make sure it's regularly maintained according to factory recommendations, remove unncessary loads, properly inflate tires, avoid carrying thing up in the root. Do not use 4WD (if available) when unnessesary.

I consistently get 22MPG (City) and 25MPG(fwy) on my CRV (2.0L) 4WD, for the 4Runner it's 19MPG (City) and 22.5 MHP (fwy), it's V6 3.4L w/ LTD-4WD.

Often times, the EPA rating for MPG isn't accurate.

While bigger engines will hurt MPG in city driving, my reseach indicates that for fwy driving...bigger engines often do not consume much more compared to smaller engine for the same vehicle.

Nam