I am surprised. :-) Pleasantly.

I have been driving this car steadily since 11/20/2009 although the official date of sale is 11/23/2009.

The car has 1400 miles on it now.

EPA rating is 17 City / 25 Hwy.

2010 TL 6-6 SH-AWD Tech.

Averaging 25.5 mpg so far.



I'm not light footing it, either.

 

pics?

 

It looks like every other Palladium SH-AWD TL!



I have splash guards and the mild factory front spoiler...otherwise it looks like every single other one out there.

 

Wow! That's great!

I struggle to get 22 mpg avg in my 2004 TL, and I live in the Northern VA area with similar climate and probably similar driving conditions.

 

Way better than my 05 tl with a constant 18mpg

 

after driving an 09 Tech for a week or so, I can't see coming even close to those #s.
How do you do it?

 

Although it has high lift lobes on both cams, it's still basically an old fashioned J Motor with old fashioned VTEC implementation.

You can tell when it comes on the cam. You can tell when the secondary starts dumping the fuel mixture because you've asked for it. :-)

If you stay below those points, you can accelerate fairly briskly without spending a lot of fuel.

I could get 30 mpg with my old commuter car, which was a 2006 6-6 Accord.

A 2009 car is going to be a five speed automatic. I don't know as much about managing the fuel economy with an automatic.

 

So in other words: Auto FTL!

 

My miles per gallon has dropped to 23.5. :-)

With 2500 miles on the car now, I am exercising her a little more!

 

How high are you shifting?

*EDIT*
Been playing with the paddle shifters......Running about 23.5mpg with 70% HWY(70mph with CC "on) And >3k shifting around town.
Mind you this is a 3.5

 

I couldn't answer you right away because I didn't really know. In regular driving, I shift by feel and sound, not necessarily by the gauge.

But after watching, I will shift 3500-4000 from a stoplight in a rural or suburban setting. This is below the point at which the car will come on the cams or start pumping fuel through the secondaries.

In the city, I shift much lower and will use fourth gear at 25 miles per hour. The 3.7 is a big motor and doesn't seem to require much revs for tooling around.

But...it redlines at something like 6800 and when you open it up, it's an entirely different animal that will impress you!

 

I was 1 of the 1st in Chicagoland to drive one. I also had the pleasure of Auto-Xing both the FWD and AWD(auto) at the Ride & Drive last year.

2009 TL-Tech(3.5L)
23.5mpg combined 60%hwy/40%city
29.0mpg @ 70mph with CC on completely flat roads.

I will try some different driving to see if I can get it up. The thing I have noticed is when you lay into it, the car just drinks gas like an LS V8. I have seen as low as ~15mpg combined with spirited driving. I'd be very curious as to what kind of MPGs this car would get on the roadcourse.....considering my Prelude gets 7-9mpg.

*I hope you don't mind my contribution, 2009-10 TL is the same sans the 6spd offering*

 

I think that's pretty good for a 3.5 V6 automatic.

 

Down to 21mpg with the same route and slightly more spirited driving. I can live with it, as long as I stay over 20mpg.
I can't complain, it costs me $150/mo+gas to drive this car.
Ahhh....the perks of the job!

 

~16mpg around town with some slightly aggressive acceleration.

 

Seems like I will have to live with 21-23mpg combined. I can swallow that....

 

I think that sounds not too bad for a car of this size and this performance.

 

You, my friend, must learn to be a bit more conservative on the throttle.

I have a 5AT '05 as well, and get 21-22mpg city, 28-30mpg on the highway.

I haven't driven a fourth-gen TL yet, but from the looks of it, they seem every bit as nice as the one I daily drive. I just can't seem to swallow the aesthetics quite yet, but perhaps time will change that.

- Derek

 

Just wanted to chime in. Not sure "when" you guys are recording your number, but right now, all numbers should be significantly lower than normal due to very cold weather and snow. If snow is involved in your commuting, the resistance alone takes it's toll. I know my civic is getting about 8mpg or worse less mileage. But we have a lot of snow as of late, and bitter cold.

 

My MPGs go down with snow b/c of the constant use of traction control. Thats it though.
The cold hasn't affected MPGs at all. If anything I would expect the HEAT to lower MPG, or moreso humidity.

All the haters can hate, I love this frickin' car! You spend 1% of your time looking at it and 99% of your time driving it! There's nothing worse than an Ugly car with ugly performance......the latter is just not true with the TL.

 

I'm going to quote you in a GDD thread where people are ganging up on me.

https://honda-tech.com/forums/showth...1#post41156987

 

JDM EJ1 banned me from GDD


I have said THAT to many customers, and it worked 1/2 of the time.
A majority of the Haters have never even driven the damn car, those that have, drove it around the block.....They suck!-----I got to hammer on both the FWD and AWD as hard as I could on an Auto-X track and compared it to a G37 G37x IS250 BMW 335i 335xi........The BMW is cool if you're 5'8"
I am possibly a little biased, I work for Acura and I am 6'6" tall. I'd like to see what the Haters would consider an option. Up until now, it was a Cadillac/Lincoln.
The miniture people seem to think BMW is the cats meooowww......

 

They reformulate the winter gas which also causes a small drop in mileage. The colder air requires the car to start and idle at richer mixtures than warmer air temps, which is also responsible for lower gas mileage. If you run regular air in the tires (not nitrogen) the colder temps drop the tire pressures creating more rolling resistance. Add that to traction control and increased rolling resistance through snow and increased idling for warm up and you'll quickly see where everyone's MPG goes.

 

Do you think that we will continue to have to produce "winter gas" formulations forever, or do we think that at some point we will rely on the car's computers to do the work?

 

Once every car on the road reaches the same level of technology, it might be possible.