This page details our record of fuel use for this car. We really like the Fit. You can carry eight foot 2x6 lumber in the car! We are hoping to get a roof rack for a canoe but haven't yet decided on the clamp on style which many people recommend against or the through the roof style which leaves small permanent anchor points on the roof.
The official efficiency ratings (l/100 km) for the 2007 Honda Fit are: City Highway 7.3 5.8
============================================================== Total fuel consumed = 4923.9 litres Total cost of fuel = 5460.18 dollars Maximum cost was = 1.489 dollars/litre on 2008-07-18 Minimum cost was = 0.819 dollars/litre on 2008-12-18 Total distance travelled = 70270 kilometres Total CO2 produced = 11817 kg CO2 per km travelled = 0.17 kg/km Mean efficiency = 7.01 l/100km Mean fuel cost per km = 7.8 cents/km Purchase cost per km = 29.0 cents/km Maintenance cost per km = 3.6 cents/km Insurance cost per km = 7.0 cents/km Operating cost per km = 47.3 cents/km ==============================================================
Colours indicate the order of the fill-ups. Red is most recent and blue is oldest. The ROYGBIV rainbow order is followed (approximately). The lines show the official efficiency ratings: dashed is city travel and dotted is highway travel. Ideally we would want to see all of the observations between or below these lines. The red dash-dotted line is the best fit to the data assuming that the line goes through the origin -- it must, you don't use any fuel if you don't drive any distance. It seems pretty clear that if we could isolate the observations related solely to city driving the slope would be steeper (worse) than the official rating. Is this related to driving style? The car is driven by three different drivers. That variable is rolled up in the observations as well.
See my page showing a longer record of gasoline cost.
Old car page -- 1985 Honda Wagovan and 2001 and Honda Civic Coupe