It's true, you can get crazy MPG just by driving efficiently. I've been learning how to hypermile my car recently and here's the results:

1st try, 35 mpg
2nd try, 36 mpg
3rd try, 38 mpg
4th & 5th try, 40.4 mpg

Yes, 40.4 MPH! No engine mods just good and efficient driving habbits.

 

I love when people especially those xb owners driving an auto brag about their gas mileage.... Here's my rebuttal: dude mines a stick, and I drive it like a race car... I'm lucky if I see 28mpg, but you know what? It doesn't ____ me off... because I drive the hell out of her and while you're pansy'n your way on down the road get the heck outta my way!

 

i did this mod and dropped in a k&n filter also.

last tank with snorkel: 29.37
first tank w/o snorkel: 30.48

not much improvement, haha. i would say i'm an extremely "efficient" driver when it comes to coasting and braking, but that doesn't mean im not aggressive when it comes to passing up cars. so would this mod even help if a majority of the tank is spent driving at 75-80mph highway?

 

Wow. That's really impressive. (Well, at least you think so, right?!)

Thanks for attempting to crap on people for trying to squeeze a few more MPGs out of their rides. I guess you think fossil-derived fuel is an infinite source, and paying over $3.50 a gallon for it is no big deal.

Know what cracks me up? When people talk about driving their xB (Toyota Echo-based econo-box) like a "race car"!

 

you must have an automatic

 

Sorry, 5 speed here.
Mmmmm...makes it feel just like a Ferrari F2008 Formula 1 car, too!

 

Hahaha

 

Sigh.

 

Taken from somebody's profile... not gonna say who, that would be mean. RRRRACE CAR!

 

...must...not...laugh...must keep...straight...face...

 

 

That's the same guy that will be complaining that the brakes wear out in 20k miles . . .

Ok the cost of getting 28mpg instead of 38mpg and I do better than that but anyway . . . 100,000 miles later at $3 a gallon = $2819.54 more spend on gas alone.

But I have been in Norfolk VA and they have nice long flat straight roads there and 64 is a great highway that goes on for miles and miles.

 

Cool, I never really looked at it that way. Now that you see it in actual dollars saved, it makes a much bigger impact.

 

I love it when people with XB's drive like idiots on the roadways and give Scion owners a bad rep. It's what all the cool kids are doin, y'know.
Keep it up junior, we'll be sure to put up the pics from your high speed wreck on here so we can analyse how fast you were going when you hit the lampost.

 

And lets not forget that the faster you go the bigger the crack in the windshield when that flying rock hits it! Not to mention the speeding ticket and the higher insurance rates and the generally lower safety rating it puts on the other xB drivers which ends up raising our insurance rates too.

 

Yeah my last car was a 94 Geo Metro 5 door and a couple of years back when gas was more reasonably priced I spent a little over $100 a YEAR on gas . . . now that is about 3 months/ tanks worth with the xB.

 

just how much was gas when you spent $100 a year on gas? and how much did you drive it?

 

I also owned the three cylinder Geo Metro for a while.
My calculated fuel burn was:
Averaged48-50 MPG.
BUT ONLY
42 MPG with the A/C on. ;)

 

The Geo was about $10 to fill it so the gas prices were a lot lower then but about a tank a month which was about 450 miles a month. I would get a little over 50mpg all the time in the Geo unless it sat too long and then it would get less mileage from the gas evaporating. The xB is getting filled about once a month also but I only get about 41mpg average per tank and the price is 3x what it used to be. I never had A/C in amy of my cars until now and I don't see much of a fuel hit when I use it in normal driving - there is more of a hit on the mpg at highway speed due to the added heating of the cabin from the air passing over it at higher speeds but still not to bad. Just close it up and recirculate on low fan and it barely impacts mileage at all.

 

Does not having the snorkel void the warranty? I'm sure it would, but anyone doing this get an earful from the dealer for doing it?