How to improve mileage of Honda City (current: 18 kmpl; goal: 23 kmpl)?

Sorry for being a spoil sport here.

I have been following this thread regularly. Even though I found it intersting, it took me quite a long while to understand what is being talked about here. After a lot of repetitive readings and few rounds on wikipedia (for P&G and techniques on saving fuel etc.) I think I should humbly congratulate Krishna for his achievement.

Now that I am able to keep pace with the posts here, I feel, I may never have any plans of following any of this through. I loved driving at 100 - 140 when Krishna was cruising at 80 + or - 2.5 kmph. I think I would rather enjoy the drive, rather than go hysterical about saving money this way. Not my cup of tea.

I already had a hard time today with one crazy finance guy  in my office who gave all the calculations he could to justify a CNG kit for his kind of ride (about 800 kms per month!!!) in Delhi on a new A-star. I feel as if all my brain has already been eaten up, chewed and then spit in a drain

LoLzzz!! Pretty graphic analogy there, Himanshu!

Yes, we all need our way of unwinding and relaxing. Mine is to race against the MPG meter. Your's is to race against the speedo, and the office bean counter's is to race against the calculator!!! . All in good fun, to each one his own!

Continuing the topic of the thread, I observe that a cold engine takes up substantial fuel to warm up, and therefore my morning trips get me substantially less FE, when compared to an unscheduled trip back home at 4:00 pm yesterday. - at 4:00 pm, the engine was taken to be warm already - from the sunshine, and the FE was high right from the word go.

This means that in colder climates, it is difficult to achieve good FE if your trips are short. Rightly, the owners manual lists average trips shorter than 5 km as a 'severe use scenario' and recommends a service interval shorter than in normal use. So if your use pattern is short trips, you should adjust your service intervals for the sake of the engine life if not for FE.

In even colder climates, the losses due to a cold engine are higher, and many resort to engine heaters driven by domestic AC mains to get the engine temperature warm enough so that this penalty of excess fuel dumped by the ECU is not incurred.

Haha dude go for cng it'll give you the double average of ur target

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Rajat, think before posting in a thread that is 21 pages long. CNG will give me 46 km/kg? Are you kidding?

it will not give you 43 km in 1kg but if you count the overall averageCNG will give you more than your exprectd mileage.

Hey

It was over a year ago that I had read this article. Stumbled upon it by chance again.

I have a 2007 V-tech and all I get is 12.5 kmph (city driving, mainly short distances and 100% AC). Of course hypermiling is not my thing. I prefer the pedal to the metal style.

I can't imagine any speed below 140 kmph on the Mumbai-Pune expressway. Would probably fall asleep if my speed dropped below 100. ;)

My best currently is 240kmph in a Superb V6 ans 220kmph on a Suzuki SV650. (Haven't got my hand on a beast that can beat that )

Of course with fuel now close to 65/- a litre, maybe I'll try to get a few more kms from my tank.

Cheers to all and a happy 2011.