Congrats on the purchase!
Originally Posted By: Patman
I ordered a Scangauge, so I'm gonna hook it up in the Civic and I'm gonna see if I can get 45 MPG on the highway at a steady 100km/h. (I can get 32 MPG+ in the Vette, so I'm sure 45 will be easy for the Honda)
You just might be able to hit that target. Don't forget to calibrate your scangauge with a couple of fill-ups before trusting its numbers, though. IIRC I had to apply a small fuel and speed adjustment to my SG2 with my Civic to get it to report within a tenth of an mpg or so vs manual calculations. I've gotten up to 43 or so MPG on an extended highway trip in my 07 EX coupe, but I had to go slooowww (55-60 mph). OTOH that drive was fairly hilly and my car is a stick shift which is geared lower than your AT so that might cancel out and let you hit the target at 100 km/h. I average 33-35 mpg in mine year round but my commute has a lot of hills and I do not baby the car.
Originally Posted By: Patman
For those of you with 06+ Civics, what kind of oil consumption do you see? With my ex-wife's 2000 Civic it didn't use any oil at all until 80k, and then all of a sudden it started using a lot and now it uses about a quart every 2500 miles! (she's lucky I still top it up for her every once in a while otherwise it would run bone dry on her!)
You don't want to know. Mine's used a little since new and while I haven't kept detailed enough records every time, it has been getting worse over time. In my last OCI, at 70k miles, it burned about a quart per 2k miles. Not sure if it's repeating that pattern this time yet but I think it probably is. Hopefully yours will be more like everyone else's because most people's don't seem to burn measurable amounts.