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" Our long-term Honda Fit has been a fun and useful runabout for the past couple months. I&amp;#039;ve really racked up the miles, and those miles have been easy on my wallet.  If you drive the Fit for maximum fuel efficiency with very light throttle applications and you shift into the next highest gear as quickly as possible, the B-Car gets exceptional mileage. On our best tankful using this method, the Fit averaged 37.3 mpg\u2014and that was combined city and highway driving. Hey, who needs a hybrid? But if you keep up with the rest of the lead-foot drivers in Los Angeles, the fuel economy does drop. And so the average for the past nine tankfuls works out to 33 mpg\u2014still quite good. As the odometer rolled past the 3,000-mile mark, it got me thinking about the first scheduled maintenance. Call me old-fashioned, but shouldn&amp;#039;t there be some type of schedule printed in the owner&amp;#039;s manual? Instead, our Honda Fit has a &amp;quot;Maintenance Minder&amp;quot; computer, which tells us at 3,361 miles that we have 50 percent of our engine oil life remaining. I&amp;#039;d like to know when Honda&amp;#039;s engineers recommend I should change the oil\u2014especially under severe-duty useage. More importantly, if you don&amp;#039;t get your car serviced at a Honda dealer, you&amp;#039;re forced to reset the Maintenance Minder yourself\u2014and remember to do it. How many owners are going to be up for that?  Be sure to check out final reports on our long-term test cars\u2014including the Jeep Liberty and Toyota Highlander Hybrid\u2014in the November issue of Popular Mechanics, on newsstands now. \u2014Ben Stewart Hondas Maintenance Minder conveniently tells the engines remaining oil life, but a maintenance schedule is nowhere to be found. The Honda Fit Spot, our long-term test B-Car, picks up a family pack of pulled pork from our favorite BBQ hut. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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