WHAT IS YOUR UTMOST CONCERN? FC, power or emissions?

[renzo_d10]

Everything should be proportional for me.

FC would depend on the engine power that the car has, if it has less than 1.6L displacement I would expect something around at least 10km/L fuel consumption -- city driving. Of course, I'd expect something around 3-4km/L if I were to drive an STi. Depends, really.

Emissions aren't really my priority, of course I would want to pass it... but whether it's low or high, as long as it passed... it's an OK for me. Definitely better emissions would be better... but I don't really pay attention to it.

[uls]

i don't care about emissions

i don't care about carbon footprint

i'm not a treehugger

[Starex_Gold]

Power.

Too Short.

[Retz]

FC first followed by engine power. Emission should be the least of my concerns.

[ghosthunter]

FC first followed by engine power. Emission should be the least of my concerns.

Assuming you have a factory spec car, emissions should not even be a concern.

[CVT]

1. Reliability and Safety
2. Aircon (may be included in reliability - mahirap mag drive ng walang aircon- sobrang init at alikabok)
3. Power
4. Fuel Consumption

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[1D4LV]

for me....

FC is the primary concern... since hindi naman ako performance driver....

the rest, secondary na lang, since performance does not equate to good FC.

[oj88]

1. Engine power
2. FC/FE
3. Emissions

In that order.

To elaborate:

1. I got a Civic with the 1.8L engine. Not quite up there in the torque department, but still peppy enough even if I fill it up with groceries and my family.
2. Bought a ScanGaugeII which I recently replaced with the UltraGauge to keep tabs on FE.
3. Always kept the engine in tip top shape. Never dreamed of doing a cat-delete in an attempt to squeeze a bit more power out of the engine. Finally, the UltraGauge would sound an alert if the CEL is triggered (emissions problem, usually).

[ghosthunter]

3. Always kept the engine in tip top shape. Never dreamed of doing a cat-delete in an attempt to squeeze a bit more power out of the engine. Finally, the UltraGauge would sound an alert if the CEL is triggered (emissions problem, usually).

Depending on how restrictive your stock catalytic converter would be, you can gain a few HPs by upgrading to an aftermarket low restriction CAT. But it will be expensive and HPs gained is generally not that big (unless you're going the path of turbo upgrades).

[jhnkvn]

I don't think anybody cares about emissions. As with uls said, "I'm not a tree-hugger". If I was, I won't be opening my aircon every night just to save a couple of watts for energy conservation's sake.

Between power and fuel consumption, I'd get both if our damned government stops taxing electric cars heavily. 100% torque at X RPM.. yum yum!