As an FYI, all cars even today are conducted and measured with the CAFE EPA rating which was instituted in the 70s, however in order to provide more useful information to the consumer, they adjust it to account for things like more aggressive driving etc, they have done this three times as the original and 1985 ratings weren't quite representative of people's actual driving habits. The CAFE rating is what is used to determine whether or not an automaker will get penalties, which is why you hear the CAFE rating for cars at 27mpg yet you see few cars in dealership lots providing averages of 27mpg.
I choose the Civic VX because it's a "dream car" for a lot of folks and the ones that are on here get far far lower MPG ratings, lower than even the 1985 MPG ratings, which in my opinion is because people don't drive these cars as conservatively and they're not as tuned up as they should be.
Miles Per Gallon Ratings will be as follows; City, Highway, Combined.
1994 Civic VX Federal
2007 Estimated EPA rating: 39, 50, 43
1985 EPA Rating: 47, 56, 51
CAFE Rating: 52, 72, 60
1994 Civic VX California
2007 Estimated EPA rating: 37, 45, 40
1985 EPA Rating: 44, 51, 47
CAFE Rating: 49, 65, 55
2000 Insight
2007 Estimated EPA rating: 49, 61, 53
1985 EPA Rating: 61, 70, 65
CAFE Rating: 68.1881, 89.2029, 76.2742
I only found out where I could obtain this data by contacting the EPA directly and was promptly directed to the following link:
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/download.shtml
Ratings are available for all tested cars going back to 1978.
The format in which you download it in will vary but if and when you do download it, for the CAFE EPA MPG ratings, look under "UNRND COMP
(EPA)" which stands for Unrounded Composite (fuel economy).
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