Quote Originally Posted by s99 View Post
Agree with Pokey... I just did the first fill up in my 2010 3Sport GT (2.5L engine, automatic) and got 8.4L/100km on a balanced mix of city/highway driving.

The real time consumption guage in the GT is really useful. This is the first car I've had with one, the last time I bought a car was 11 years ago. As I continue learning the car's preferences and the engine breaks in, I hope to see it go lower. I'm in a heated competition with my brother-in-law (2011 Civic) to prove that I've got both nimbler performance AND better fuel economy
You are going to have to drive like a grandma to beat the civic unless he drives with a lead foot. And that's going to be hard because it's a car that makes you drive faster vs the rather numb IMHO feeling of the civic. Plus like my fiancee (who drives a current gen civic) always says about cars other than the civic "what you are going at this speed? Feels slower". So the civic will win just by making it's driver thinks it's going faster cause it's more noisy, less stable and has a thrashy engine.