Yeah, this guy is clueless. What a senseless suit.

Perhaps the car is broken, but a non hybrid Civic gets better mileage than that on the highway. Perhaps he's a very non smooth driver, constantly speeding up and slowing down?

On a recent 3000 mile road trip, I got 32mpg on a 6-sp manual Acura TSX overall! How could this be the same as what this guy gets? My driving style pretty much always gets me at least the EPA rating for the highway. I get about 32mpg in my Mazda Protege. (1 mpg better than rated) And I took a 2000 mile road trip in a Pontiac Vibe and ended up with 34mpg on that.

I think my biggest problem with this story is I know for a fact a regular Civic can easily get into the high 30's highway driven normally -- so this guy is using his car incorrectly.

I don't get it -- my local PBS upconverts a few of their local shows to 1080i from 480p and you can sure tell. It looks much like watching a DVD. But the Fox shows that air on KTTV (FOX in Los Angeles) in "Fox Widescreen" look just as good to me as the stuff on ABC on my Sony KD-34XBR960. Could this vary from market to market or is my eye just bad?