View Single Post
Old 04-23-2012, 02:48 PM   #503
nubsub
Scooby Specialist
 
Member#: 313575
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: SF Bay Area, CA
Vehicle:
2012 Impreza 2.0i HB

Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by ocellaris View Post
The Eco gauge seems a bit too touchy and poorly placed to be of much use for regular adjustments.

I can beat the CVT cruise control by really working at it and manually shifting, but then I am no longer driving "normally" and have to focus too much on tiny adjustments because sometimes manually shifting is worse. A good example of this is on some hills where you could just keep it in 6 and glide up the hill while losing 3 MPH, but letting the car cruise would ramp up the RPMs. There seems to be a very fine line between hills that works on, and hills where would would have been doing better if the car was in D-mode.
i hear you on most of these counts (haven't tried cruise yet). i guess having the instantaneous mileage available (wish it were somehow part of the trip computer display in the center of the dash like they have on the Canadian model) seems theoretically like it should help optimize my driving.

i came to develop, what i thought were pretty good habits with my 5spd, and actually have been able to really optimize my driving when i occasionally drive my wife's prius...but this impreza seems to behave differently than the prius which i guess shouldn't come as a surprise.
* Registered users of the site do not see these ads.
nubsub is offline   Reply With Quote