Is 66.72 km per liter w/ a City with CVT possible?

[OTO]

When I saw this article I was just plainly shocked that it can be done.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory...RING&oid=65064

[philander]

66.72 km per liter????

This is great if proven true....

Now I want to sell my car.

[GlennSter]

paging sir ferman aka autoxer...kaya ba ito?

[tagalnasaabroad]

baka 26.72 o di kaya 16.72..imho..puyat lang siguro proof reader nila kaya di na rectify..

[mazdamazda]

the honda insight (a hybrid car) does 35km/L (world's best) - and it is verified by the US EPA.

sounds like a typo or a lotta hocus-pocus to me.

[ricky]

Here's another link.

http://news.yehey.com/news3.asp?c=12&i=77384

I'm wondering if it's really a typo...

[ghosthunter]

maybe it was downhill? :D

[coiter]

most likely typo. that's equivalent to 156.92 miles per gallon. it can beat the record of any hybird engine out there!

[ricky]

And another...

http://www.hondaphil.com/indexFlash.htm

[ILuvDetailing]

Teka bat ang layo ng descripancy ng 1st and 2nd place?

But atleast they got 10K and a Stereo

[denkyo999]

baka electric car un sinasabi nya,, at yn link nya di na gumagana

[squala]

Oh no, not that crap again! :mad: First a 49 km/li in a VTEC3, now 60+ on the tumor car?

Jeez, they can't even manage half of that in the real world. What's this, another Kennon Road downhill drive in neutral?

[Supierreman]

labo yan... mas believable pa yun around 21km/L

[EC248M]

oh, unbelievable but if its true then lets all sell our car and get that one.

[hagiber]

Its another story trying to deceive the unsuspecting public ....

[mazdamazda]

the other vehicle's test results are more believable...

.For the media category, Mr. Iñigo Roces and Mr. Chris Van Hoven of Team C! Magazine registered 24.09 km per liter using 1.3 Honda City CVT while Manila Bulletin’s Mr. Anjo Perez together with Manila Times’ Mr. Vernon Sarne posted a fuel mileage of 23.62 km per liter using 1.3 Honda Jazz CVT.

Honda fielded one official car, Jazz with manual transmission, to set Honda’s official fuel consumption. Driven by an AAP representative, Jazz official car was able to register 20.71 km per liter using normal driving condition.

[pajerokid]

Dudes.

That's plain impossible.

Nuff said.

[BlueBimmer]

sounds like BS to me. if it is a typo, the encoder should be fired

[philander]

I dont think its a typo... the author even computed the approximate cost for Metro Manila Roundtrip....

"Mr. Tiglo’s trip around Metro Manila merely cost him approximately Php 20"

[mazdamazda]

Originally posted by philander
I dont think its a typo... the author even computed the approximate cost for Metro Manila Roundtrip....

"Mr. Tiglo’s trip around Metro Manila merely cost him approximately Php 20"

the problem is that the method that they used for computing the fuel consumption is very unreliable and should be used for estimates only (e.g. waiting for the gas pump to go "click").

a theoretical scientific explanation can also be deduced.

since they are using gasoline pumps to measure the amount of gasoline used - this maybe the culprit. it might be:

1) the calibration for the vacuum sensing device for the pump (used for the automatic nozzle cut-off) isn't calibrated exactly as the other pumps

2) the small pipe (sensing the vacuum) might have sucked in gasoline coming out of the nozzle instead of what is in the fuel tank of the car. this MIGHT happen if the nozzle wasn't properly placed and will most probably trigger the nozzle shutdown.

3) when the fuel was measured for that particular car - it was in the middle of a hot afternoon. naturally, the fuel inside the car expanded and decreased the "empty space" inside the fuel tank (thereby resulting in less fuel needed to fill-up the car again). though this is a bit far off.