I figured that the CVT might play an active role in lean burn so that it could maintain itself near the 2500rpm when the demand is there to provide a little extra power when needed while maintaining the 65/70mpg range that hangs on to lean burn.
...but I suppose since the car doesn't utilize its battery pack to do anything similar that I shouldn't hold the optimism that Honda would design it that way.
It seems that Honda didn't really put anything into the MT car to help us obtain and hold lean burn, other than the instant MPG in the FCD. If we had a little display that would help us with the throttle position to hold it at to get lean burn and at what point to stop to avoid dropping out of lean burn and some sort of way of finding out when it just won't do it based on temperature or those weird times it refuses for no apparent reason while I sit at 100mpg waiting and loses speed for nothing and then losing MPG and battery or an extra shift trying to catch up with my speed again.
We'd almost need to control the CVT manually along with MIMA to get it to work right on the highway. ...maybe. [/endrant]
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