So I’m looking up random facts/specs about random cars like I do, and I come across the EG hatch Civic VX and see that it’s rated at 5X mpg highway. It’s a 4 cylinder gas engine! Not diesel, not 3 cylinder, not hybrid! Holy fawk! I see that it’s <2100 pounds and only makes like 90 brake horse, but did they have to do anything else special to hit that sort of gas mileage?
It kind of saddens me that Honda was able to produce that in the early 90’s, yet we’re still looking to hybrids to get close to the same fuel economy 15 years later. God knows the engineering is there. It’s just marketing and politics that are getting in the way of 50+ mpg vehicles.
So aside from being light and low powered, what else did they have to do to get that kind of economy? Run it really lean like the more recent Civic HX’s?
I have two VX’s the '93 with 377k and the '94 with 180k…they’re fun cars, so practical. Blast to work on too, total simplicity no p/s or a/c. Buy one if you can find one. They’re decently peppy off the line too for 90hp.
buy one if you can find one, they are already wired for vtec so maybe your friend’s jackass girlfriend will crash her gsr and you’ll have a reasonably easy swap on your hands :gotme: ;)anyway, i don’t think they got 5x mpg. they were good on gas, but i don’t think they were that good.
In 1996 the oil companies effectively blocked the sale in the United States of the successor to the VX, the Civic EX. This economical wonder came in at 68mpg highway, possible by downsizing the motor and using the same VTEC-E technology. Such a shame we never saw the car over on these shores. At least pressure has now made it possible to see the efficient Insight sold here.
i had a 91 hatch vx and honestly it has been my favorite car so far. No power steering no a/c, 4 speed transmission and no mirror on the passanger side and i will never forget the sweet 2 speaker stereo system, it was an awesome car to drive for what it was.
