New CU2 Accord Euro - My car, my review!

[tron07]

Yesterday at the lights there was a new falcon, CU2 and CL9 at the front of me and I notice that while the Cu2 lights looks good, both the falcon and the roundish CL9 looks heaps better.... It kinda stunts me that I did not notice this before.

The CU2 looks out of shape with the square light near the number plates.

[buddah51au]

You may do as you wish. What I said was "I wouldn't be visiting the 6,000 rpm region on a new engine." Well, at least not for extended periods until the first oil change.

It is a little hard to do it for extended periods considering speed limits and the number of Kodack"s these days. As for extended periods, in my case 4 times in 500km. Type R.....step in here pls....485km.....not quite 1/2 tank of fuel... trip computer telling me 7.5.....DOES THIS SOUND RIGHT?......will be very interesting to get some hard figures when I fill up.

[buddah51au]

Curiosity finally got the better of me today as I couldn't believe what I was seeing......
Trip Computer was reading 7.4L/100k average and the gauge was showing fractionally under 1/2 a tank after 540 kms. Both readings turned out to be very optomistic.

In reality the result was 540 kms - 44.34 liters = 8.21L.100k. More than an acceptable figure on a new engine & far better than i expected.

In stating the above I cant be sure how full the tank was when I took delivery of the car, so I have started a spreadsheet and i will post my findings after 5,000 km when a more accurate fuel consumption average can be obtained.

[snYpz]

On our CU2 it was about 10.2L/100k from memory. Mostly city driving. Havent done calculations yet, but would be interesting to see how precise the computer is.

[SPQR]

Curiosity finally got the better of me today as I couldn't believe what I was seeing......
Trip Computer was reading 7.4L/100k average and the gauge was showing fractionally under 1/2 a tank after 540 kms. Both readings turned out to be very optimistic.

In reality the result was 540 kms - 44.34 liters = 8.21L.100k. More than an acceptable figure on a new engine & far better than i expected.

8.21 L/100km is excellent for an Auto! It seems you should at least have the accuracy of the fuel gauge checked by your Honda dealer. There might even be a procedure in the owners manual for calibrating the trip computer. I'm not sure on that but I remember reading it in one of the Honda manuals.

[aaronng]

I would have expected 7.x for the auto for freeway driving.

[buddah51au]

I would have expected 7.x for the auto for freeway driving.

Nearest freeway to me is several hundred km, 75% rural back roads, 25% lite town driving is a more accurate description. As I said, I am not sure how full the tank was when i picked the car up, and I prefer to check consumption over several tanks of fuel to get a more accurate reading.

[Type R Positive]

Type R.....step in here pls....485km.....not quite 1/2 tank of fuel... trip computer telling me 7.5.....DOES THIS SOUND RIGHT?......will be very interesting to get some hard figures when I fill up.

Yeah, sounds right. I been getting about 900km per tank. I think I could stretch it to 1000kms if I drove normally.
Extremely pleased about fuel consumption, or lack there of.
You already know how the car goes, I couldn't believe it at first also.

[aware]

That is a really nice car. I can agree with you on rear room though. When we were looking at Honda, the Euro is a bit too small for me in the back comfortably. I can sit there, but not for a couple of hours if on a roadtrip. I am 6 foot, so we then went and tried the normal Accord, but the V6 Luxury and it was bigger, and I found it really comfortable. Honda's are great, and both the Accord and the Euro are superb. My uncle is actually currently looking at downsizing from a 2002 Statesman, and is looking at the Euro.

[Type R Positive]

There was actually enough room for my mum, dad, bro, as well as me in the car, and we are all pretty big Aussies. The back was comfortable enough, but yeah, wouldn't want to get stuck there for hours on end. I got the missus to drive though, but we were all comfortable. Us boys are around the 6'2" mark, the old man is around the 6' mark, and the girls are a fair bit shorter. lol.

CU2 is still a comfortable family car, but if I had my own family car, I would probably skip it though. I would say the boot is too small for family. I don't have to worry about that though.....

[Type R Positive]

Nearest freeway to me is several hundred km, 75% rural back roads, 25% lite town driving is a more accurate description. As I said, I am not sure how full the tank was when i picked the car up, and I prefer to check consumption over several tanks of fuel to get a more accurate reading.

Heading up to Perth tomorrow (550kms), will get accurate L/100kms.

[buddah51au]

I can now give fairly accurate fuel consumption figures for a CU2 Auto, obviously the first tank wasn't completely filled by the dealer. My result was 738km - 55.79 liters = 7.56L/100km. I'm not sure if there will be much improvement once the engine breaks in. Next step will be to get an average over 5000km as 1 tank is only an indication. Will post that result in about 9 weeks.