What is the Top Mileage record?

Arturo · 09-07-2006, 12:35 PM

What is the top mileage record in this forum? The best I've gotten was 86.5 mpg ,CRAWLING! Is it held by a modified insight? Just wondered because I want to do what Mike Dabrowski did to his insight regarding his kit.

trunkout · 09-07-2006, 01:04 PM

my money is on 99mpg.com

Arturo · 09-07-2006, 02:45 PM

Wow! 99mpg is awesome. Is your insight stock or modified

What speed were you traveling at to achieve 99mpg

Okay, I understand your sending me to Mikes web page but what is the record

Is it a mima modified insight

I don't want to add that 5th drop down wheel or the extra batterys.

Billy · 09-07-2006, 03:22 PM

Hi Arturo, It depends whether you mean mpg LIFETIME or just for a specific TANK, or only for a SEGMENT. Wayne Gerdes probably is the highest for an un-modified Insight, 92.3 lifetime. He sold the car several months ago. Over 21,000 miles, my lifetime is 89.5. Rick Reece and Randall (Highwater) have lifetime av of over 90 mpg, with MIMA.

Several of us have gotten well over 1000 miles on a single tank. A few of us have achieved over 150 mpg over a segment of 20 miles or more.

Using a 5-spd Insight, put more air in the tires and slow down. Keep in the lean-burn mode. Have patience; try NOT to use electric assist. It's not difficult, in warm weather, to see your mpg in the 80's......

Arturo · 09-07-2006, 06:21 PM

Thank you for answering my question. 114 mpg is really impressive. I'm going to try and break my record of 86.5. Those lifetime mpg totals are great but given my situation with going uphill going home makes it difficult to get to those lifetime averages.

chrs · 09-08-2006, 08:18 AM

In addition to lifetime, tank, and segment records, one can keep track of "long trip" records. I define a long trip as being more than about 50 miles, and being from home to a real destination (or vice versa). If there is significant elevation change from home to the destination, it has to be a round-trip. The home-to-destination requirement means I can't "cheat" by picking a segment that avoids that messy stuff like getting out of a parking lot, which drags down the MPG, or skipping the warm-up time. And the distance requirement means I can't relying on drawing down the IMA battery. But it still allows more immediate gratification than waiting to get through a whole tank: It ttakes me a long time for an Insight to burn a tank!

My best long trip was about 160 miles, over the Green Mountains, 106 mpg. But I bet that folks who live in flatter areas have better long-trip records than that.

Charlie

**jack9994** · 09-08-2006, 08:42 AM

my best commute from home to work and back was 103 mpg (96 miles total) - i am to impatient to do it now

Tranquility · 09-08-2006, 08:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Billy

Using a 5-spd Insight, put more air in the tires and slow down. Keep in the lean-burn mode. Have patience; try NOT to use electric assist. It's not difficult, in warm weather, to see your mpg in the 80's......

I have to agree with that. I'm very new at this and I got an 87 mpg 100 mile segment just a little bit ago. I got 98 mpg over the same segment two days ago. But, I was doing 40 mph and less to get it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jack9994

- i am to impatient to do it now

Me too, and I just started.

It is a lot of fun seeing how high we can get it though. 70 mpg is nowhere near as fun as 100 mpg or more, but AC and "getting where your going" has its appeals too. And the Insight does a fine job at that too.

The Citrus Smoothie · 09-09-2006, 07:49 AM

Is there / should there be an official minimum distance to claim the highest mileage segment? Howabout 20 miles to help limit the number of claims whilst coasting down hill?

chrs · 09-09-2006, 08:28 AM

Well, if your only way to prevent ways to claims based on going down hill is the 20 mile minimum, I'll go ahead and claim infinite MPG--there are some pretty good 20-mile hills around here.

Charlie