2008 Accord Gas Milage

Anyone know what the gas milage estimates would be using 2007's formula
instead of the new mpg one for 2008?

Anyone point me to a link so I can figure it out myself if no one knows?

Thanks,
Polfus

 

Consumer Reports rated the Accord this month. Check out their mileage at
the library. I remember it was worse than the prior Accord because the new
car is bigger.

 

Hi Art..thanks for the reply.

See..thing is that the EPA now ranks MPG for cars using a *new* system,
which IIRC makes it look like the Accord is getting worse gas milage than
the 2007 model, which I believe is NOT true.

Thats what I wanna find out..what it would be if using last years system.

Also, IIRC, I read somewhere that the new Accord gets better gas milage than
even the older 1990-1994 2.4L 4 cyl., which was very good as it was.

I recently went from NYC to NC, and of course back, and one tank got me
there each way.

Thats about 650 miles on a tank of gas, which comes out to about 35 MPG in
this scenario...and I didn't run the tank dry, so the milage is actually
probably *better* than 35 highway, for sure.

Peace,
Polfus

 

Motortrend just compared the new accord, camry and and nissan (forgot model
name temporarily due to age). They were testing 6 cylinder and Accord did
the worse on mileage. They were surprised because EPA mileage was the best
on the accord. They thought the camry was the best of the 3 despite Accord
being the newest model. It also was roomiest despite being smaller than the
Accord.

 

Take a look at www.fueleconomy.gov . They have re-done the mileage ratings
for older cars to match the new system.

 

THANK YOU!

Peace,
Polfus

 

Interesting!

Take a look at what a 2007 Accord's MPG drops to when using the new system..

2007 rating is 24/34, whereas same car using 2008 rating drops to 21/31.

So, I will do a reverse calculation and assume that the new 2008 Accord has
around 24/34 as well for the automatic 5 speed 4 cyl. using last year's
system..it is listed as 21/31 for 2008.

Thanks again...I sure was curious about this.

Peace,
Polfus

 

As others have mentioned, you can get 1985-2007 fuel economy estimates
rescaled to be roughly comparable to 2008 estimates on
http://www.fueleconomy.gov .

If you want 2008 cars' fuel economy estimates using the 1985-2007 method,
you can go to http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/download.shtml , download
the 2008 datafile, unzip it, and look at the spreadsheet. Columns L, M, and
N are the unadjusted fuel economy numbers. For the 2008 Honda Accord
sedan 4-cylinder manual, they are 27.8 city and 43.11 highway. Applying
the -10% for city and -22% for highway as used in 1985-2007, the estimates
comparable to 1985-2007 estimates (on window stickers) become 25.02 city
and 33.63 highway.

 

Thanks for the reply, Timothy!

Peace,
Polfus