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| Accord EX I-4, 1999 "6 Gen"
Trip Odometer 289.1
(highway only - 266 mi)
Moving Time 4 hr 20 min
Stopped Time 0 min 20 sec
Moving Average 61.2 mph
Max Speed: xx mph
Mpg: 36.5 mpg (taken at South Hill #8 Station, after 289.1 mi with 7.991 gal, 80 mi combined, then ~200 highway)
Premium at 3.499 USD/gal
Conditions: heavy traffic flowing until Richmond with a crash + 5 minutes of backup, then minimal traffic up to duke
Noticed a sudden slowdown in traffic pattern too late and had to apply brakes. Saw: 1. a red miata on the left shoulder. 2. a red front bumper much too large for a miata 3. a tractor trailer on the right 4. a red cr-v on the left 5. police and RV on the right.
The I-4 is indeed more "lively" with vibrations through the steering wheel and cabin. 2000 rpm gives me about 60 mph, with 2500 yielding ~64. The steering feels vaguer than in the V6, but the cable-controlled brake and throttle of the I4 are preferred. I-4 not low on passing power when accompanied by VTEC roar. Exhaust note is decidedly higher pitched and more metallic.
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| Accord EX-L V6, 2007 "7.5 Gen"
Forgot to turn on my GPS for about eight miles after gas stop....
Moving Time 4 hr 11 min
Stopped Time 3 min 49 s
Moving Average 61.9 mph
Max Speed: xx mph
Mpg: 29.3 (Combined) [determined from a mix of highway and duke driving]
Premium at 3.499 USD/gal
Conditions: Sunny, chill ~18C? Sunday afternoon traffic heavy but flowing after Richmond. Stop and go from Tysons on. Exited 495 early at Clara Barton. Crazy people not securing luggage on roof racks correctly. Crazy crashes. Stepped on the brakes two times due to other cars.
Earlier in my driving week, managed to fold my front left tire in during an aggressive turn and chipped the rim, causing the VSA and ABS lights to remain on indefinitely. Hope it is only the wheelspeed sensor... visiting Honda dealer tomorrow morning.
Need to revise my initial description of the engine note. Not quite NSX, which was a euphoric descriptor after being unleashed on a V6. The texture of the note is grainy and muted/deep upon VTEC.
Not used to drive-by-wire for crawling pace. Brakes and gas too sensitive.
Five speed auto transmission sucks. The addition of a gear makes it all shorter, causing the car to look for gears. "intelligent" downshifting to use engine braking or something intrudes on my "coasting" driving style for stop and go, making it more like "gas, coast, computer controlled downshift, gas, brake." Expect abysmal MPG...
EX I-4 1999 "6 Gen"
Back from service, which totaled 1,400. Apparently the front left rotor was seized... which added a good 500 to the bill... Have not driven it, Father says it is working better now. Update pending.
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| Accord EX-L V6, 2007 "7.5 Gen"
Trip Odometer 270.38 mi
Moving Time 4 hr 13 min
Moving Average 63.9 mph
Max Speed: xxx mph
Mpg: 33 mpg (taken at South Hill #8 Station, after 200 mi with 6.018 gal
Premium at 3.459 USD/gal
Conditions: heavy traffic flowing until Richmond, then minimal traffic up to duke, low winds, slight drizzle.
Driving impressions:
Silky smooth V6 power that is hardly audible. Whoosh of power that turns from gentle burble below 3000 rpm to an NSX-esque roar at 6000, with finer "grains" of exhaust note. Steering is taught, and suspension is taught. Road joints transmit in defined, damped thuds. However, lazy atmosphere of leather and reduced road/wind noise tends toward less aggressive driving. 65 mph at around 2000 rpm top gear.
Not as fatiguing as the 1999 I-4, in which 65 comes at 2300 rpm, if memory is accurrate. Cabin is enourmous... not used to the extra lateral space my arm needs to traverse to rest on the door sill. Highway is surprisingly comparable between the two, but city mileage is probably horrendous for the v-6. I-4 is more lively, which requires more attention to drive, which means long trips will dull the senses quickly. However, the slack V-6 may lend itself to more careless driving...
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| "Why are you using Mathematica to do a 2-system, 2-variable problem?"
"Look at the clock! Crap, I can't even [freaking] type the syntax correctly!"
It was 0330. Gave up after I couldn't factor 2nd degree polynomials in my head or in mathematica.
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| "Why are you using Mathematica to do a 2-system, 2-variable problem?"
"Look at the clock! Crap, I can't even [freaking] type the syntax correctly!"
It was 0330. Gave up after I couldn't factor 2nd degree polynomials in my head or in mathematica.
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