Honda Civic Real World MPG

I tend to drive for economy most of the time with an occasional run thru gears to redline the gears about once a week. I expect to significantly beat the EPAs and my Hondas have hands down used less gas than any other cars in my family.
 
85 AWD 5spd wagon ave 30 in town, 40 on highway, best is 45 highway
92 HX 42-44 in town, 52 highway
94 Del Sol Si, AT: Ave 30-32 in town, 38-42 highway, best highway 45
97 Del Sol Si 5 spd 31-33 in town 37-41 highway, best highway 44
92 Civic Si 29-34 in town, 38-42 highway, best 43 highway. This is my current driver with 169,000 miles and it still consistently gets milege 10% of above range!
 
I was very disappointed with the current Civic SI model fuel economy, prevented my from seriously considering it.

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Thanks, I guess you'd say I expect to get the EPA estimates as the worse case. I know the Civic HX Coupe lacks a few amenities like PWs but it is inexpensive which is a plus and has other nice things on -- it isn't a base Civic which is even too basic for me. My husband has done nothing but complain since he had to shell out $600 to get the PWs fixed in our old clunker. Arty

I bought a 98 honda civic hatchback dx automatic two weeks ago. I like it,but the only disappointment i have is the MPG i got only 24 mpg . which i thought i would get 30 mpg or more! any suggestions to improve my gas mileage?!

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I bought this car back in Jan. to be my commuter. My commute is roughly 50 miles round trip. About 35 miles of it is 55mph open road, the other 15 mixed city. The car had 163,000 miles when purchased & is a 5 spd. After new tires, alignment & a tune up I got it on the road in late Feb. At the time I was very dissapointed in mpg as epa est was 49/52 & I was averaging 38mpg. After about a month I checked tire pressure & found they were underinflated by about 4 to 5 psi. Front is supposed to be 35 rear 33. Now that temps have warmed + summer fuel & running front & rear tire pressures at 35psi I average about 55mpg. Worst since April has been 47mpg, best has been 59mpg. On my last fill-up I got 404mi. out of 7 gallons. It's only an 8 gal tank & I normally don't run it that low. I love this little car, 62hp motor is quick to 30 mph & it turns on a dime. The only downside, my fiance & dog. One slides around in the hatch area & the other thinks it rides too firm.

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