2000 honda civic mog1/11/2024 It is a a subcompact commuter car that looks sporty. It would only work if I keep a super light pressure on the gas pedal to keep the car in 5th gear, otherwise it would shift down to 4th or even 3rd, depending on previous speed, to engine the car. The worse part is when there is a downhill and I want to coast down and take the momentum to go up without using much fuel. There are times I am doing 50 mpg cruising on a nice highway and bam, I am getting 20 mpg instant fuel economy because there is a hill or I need to go a little faster. The Fit needs an Eco mode like the Civic. One's great for hauling things, the other's great for hauling people. One's a city car that gets used mainly in the city, the other's a highway car that spends most of its time on the highway. They're both quite useful for their respective missions. Trips where the Fit is getting 38-40 mpg the Cruze will get 45-48 mpg. The highway gearing is better since it's a more powerful engine and it's sleeker through the air. Our Cruze whips the Fit silly for highway fuel economy even though it's a bigger, heavier car with a smaller turbocharged engine. Thankfully the flappy paddles or careful manipulation of the accelerator can minimize the downshifting. Basically, the transmission is programmed to be "sporty". And it doesn't need to since the L15A7 engine has enough torque to get the Fit and 2 occupants up some decent-size hills without a downshift at highway speeds. All it does is make more noise and gulp more fuel without making any forward progress. The automatic transmission downshifts at the drop of a pin for any sort of hill, which is annoying. ![]() When we try for fuel economy it will get north of 40 mpg highway. Our Fit has achieved about 30-31 mpg since new being driven pretty quickly on the highway. Since I need to keep a car seat with the Fit, I can't use it the way I really want to seats down with a large cooler and blow up mattress in the back. I just haul a nice over-sized coffee table home with room for the bar stools if my wife allowed me to buy the them. But I can't live without a hatchback now that I own one. I went shopping for a Civic and bought a Fit, which has pretty much all I need minus the 40+ miles combined mpg that I figure I may get with my nanny driving style ever since moving 40 miles from work and fuel price digging into my wallet. Well, you live and learn about test drive I guess. I test drove the Civic with the Eco mode on and that may be while it felt like a neutered ride, nothing I envisioned the Civic to be. I wish it comes with Eco mode to keep it in the highest gear possible. The engine feel very preppy and ready to go all the time, too much actually since it always wants to lower gear while I try to coast to red lights, stop signs, or just down hills. ![]() The Fit is definitely way sportier with large allow wheels, nice instrument panel, better dash layout, and great cockpit view. I personally like the non-nav dash better and couldn't justify the nav price increase. I need the utility of the Fit and that is why I bought it over the Civic LX even though the LX would cost about $1k less for the entry LX versus my Fit Sport w/out nav.
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