Fuel Economy

[swng]

[Frink]

Last 3 tanks for me:
6.5 l/100km
6.5 l/100km
6.3 l/100km
My car has around 10,000k on it now.
Gotta say I'm pretty satisfied with the mileage numbers.... looking forward to a long highway trip to try and break into the 5's (which I have only done once with my 01 Civic)

[Ziv]

For sure! But gas price is CRAZY lately, it was 101.5 this morning. forkin' gas stations. no wonder they makes more and more each year. Good thing we all drive Yaris instead of some idiot driving SUV and complain about gas afterward.

[swng]

It is now over 110 cents per litre here in BC. I am glad that I have a Yaris. One of my ways to fight high oil price is to buy some good oil company shares or invest in mutual funds that put money in oil companies. Investment in mutual funds can be started with as little as a few hundred dollars. When oil price goes up, so will the prices of the shares or the fund units. Note: I am not a financial advisor. Consult an expert before anyone goes ahead.

[why?]

Of course, the second any of us do that the price of oil will drop like a rock.

[swng]

Originally Posted by why?

Of course, the second any of us do that the price of oil will drop like a rock.

So only oil companies win. We can't .

[mygrnthmb]

what burns me is the huge SUV people are the ones that keep demand so high which keeps prices so high....

[foober]

Originally Posted by mygrnthmb

what burns me is the huge SUV people are the ones that keep demand so high which keeps prices so high....

Thats why in america all the hype is over the biggest most elaborate. I believe everything you hear via the media is that you have to have the biggest most tricked out thing. And if you don't have the biggest most expensive thing you are supposedly thought of as less. Alot of americans fall for it.

I think were gonna hear a loud whineing sound pretty soon when gas goes over 3.00 dollars a gallon.

[stuffy]

i can't speak for driving in mountainous roads, but if you are driving mostly highway, you should get 39 mpg.

i get 6.7 L/100 km, which is about 35 mpg and that is mostly city driving.

(i found this conversion website which might be of interest because the whole metric/imperial thing drives me insane:

http://www.sciencemadesimple.net/fuel_economy.php

[swng]

I have learned from somewhere, may be this board, about this site offering similar services:
http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/transportatio...ut.cfm?attr=16

[stuffy]

those are great tools for canadians because it seems most n american car info is in imperial, so it is nice to be able to compare

[why?]

The problem is people have been saying,"Why peak oil is probably about now." for the past 30 or so years. Even if we really are running out of oil, our scientists have absolutely no idea how much oil is left in the ground.

We know the Saudi's are blatantly lying about how much oil is in their fields, not to mention we are finding new oil fields all the time, then their is the fact that most of the US fields are capped, they are full of oil, but they are not being pumped, etc, etc,etc.

Even if you think "fossil fuels" are such, there is not 1 human being on this planet that accurately knows how much is left.

I believe conserving oil is a good thing for other reasons, but scientists simply have no idea what we have in the ground.

[foober]

Originally Posted by why?

The problem is people have been saying,"Why peak oil is probably about now." for the past 30 or so years. Even if we really are running out of oil, our scientists have absolutely no idea how much oil is left in the ground.

We know the Saudi's are blatantly lying about how much oil is in their fields, not to mention we are finding new oil fields all the time, then their is the fact that most of the US fields are capped, they are full of oil, but they are not being pumped, etc, etc,etc.

Even if you think "fossil fuels" are such, there is not 1 human being on this planet that accurately knows how much is left.

I believe conserving oil is a good thing for other reasons, but scientists simply have no idea what we have in the ground.

I read that the iraq war thing was becasue iraq under hussein was going to open the oil spickets and flood the international market with oil to make oil way to plentiful and alot cheaper. Which big buisness oil did not want.

Were gonna have oil for a while. But its how the big petrol companys want to deal it out is what will determine the cost. They could have gone to alternative fuels years ago. But if you want to control people its good to have a product that you can control how much is available.

[Adriaan]

Just came back from doing a long distance trip with my yaris when from the south shore of montreal filled the car to the max with 41 liters there and i was able to make it to mississauga just by sir winston churchill exit on one tank of gas. I had my girlfriend with me and about 2 hockey bags full of stuff to bring down about 45 kg each. i did about 560km which i think is good with all that weight and wind on the 401. When i filled the tank in mississauga it took about 39 liters .

[swng]

Originally Posted by Adriaan

Just came back from doing a long distance trip with my yaris when from the south shore of montreal filled the car to the max with 41 liters there and i was able to make it to mississauga just by sir winston churchill exit on one tank of gas. I had my girlfriend with me and about 2 hockey bags full of stuff to bring down about 45 kg each. i did about 560km which i think is good with all that weight and wind on the 401. When i filled the tank in mississauga it took about 39 liters .

560 kms from 39 litres?
That is about 6.96 litres per 100 km, or
33.77 miles per US gallon, or
40.56 miles per Imp gallon, or
14.36 kms per litre
Very close to my numbers Adriaan. Quite respectable considering your load although there are people who have done better(in varied conditions). It is a manual, right? Please keep on posting your numbers. I guess even as good as they are, they will improve.

[NickNickNick]

I've now got about 5100km on my Yaris, mostly in the city now, and am still getting almost 800km per tank...20km/L on the highway. About 550-600 in the city.

[stuffy]

the tank i currently have in my car seems to really be going good, the weather has been a lot warmer so maybe this makes a big difference,

i've travelled about 250 km (all city) on the top two bars, although that top bar is probably worth more than itself.

i will post the mileage when i refill.

[wushumasterku]

for those in canada or care, i drove from toronto to montreal last weekend... 500 km on 28 liters. that's pretty good :) 95% highway.. started counting just outside of toronto past oshawa

*edit: i should also say that my average speed on highway was consistently 110km/h