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ChadTower:

What I don't get is why 36mpg is a freakin revelation.  I get 30 in my ten year old Civic.

HaRuMaN:
L-Series Honda engine (Fit)
D-Series Honda engine (Civic)


--- Quote ---The new L-series features some key innovative ideas. The benchmark against which the Lseries was designed would be the well-established D-series engine, what Honda identifies as the 'conventional VTEC unit'. The Lseries was designed to be smaller in dimension and lighter than the Dseries. It is also designed to be as efficient, returning equal or better fuel economies as well as acheiving lower emission levels. Unique too is how the Lseries is designed to complement an entire platform of Honda models, the aforementioned 'Global Small Platform'. The key characteristics of this platform has already been covered in our previous article on the design concept of the Fit/Jazz. The Lseries engine is designed to help enable the realization of these characteristics. One of the most important characteristic of the GSP would be the so-called 'space efficiency', i.e. extraction of maximum interior cabin space out of the small design and the key to it is the short engine bay. Thus the Lseries is designed to fit into a short and small engine bay.

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ChadTower:

That's marketing material.  Doesn't have any real bearing on actual performance.  Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.

Is the 6mpg difference really worth the reduction in performance and safety?  If you have to be careful pulling out onto the highway because it has so little pickup you'd think the increase in efficiency would be a whole lot more than 6mpg.

Cakemeister:
What this thread needs is a picture of Pops, Gold 5 in Star Wars Episode 4, with the caption, "Stay on topic!"

Hoopz:
Porkins?

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