Rondo Engine

This morning it was twenty one degrees, and the Rondo was parked outside in my driveway all morning.  It wasn't frosted today but being the coldest its been this year, the Rondo's engine was very cold.  Without starting the car prior to leaving, I had hot heat pumping after driving just three minutes.  One of my friends, Scott, has a dodge truck.  Every night he has to park his vehicle outside, as I do.  I asked him how long it takes him to get hot air through his vents, and he said on a day where it's thirty degrees or so it'll take him six minutes.  As the weather gets colder, the time it takes for him to not freeze gets longer and longer.  Today he said it took his truck EIGHT minutes to warm up so he could get warm air through the vents.

This ties directly into fuel economy for the vehicles.  Knowing that the Rondo's engine warms up faster, this means it is running at lower RPMs.  If it is running at lower RPMs, the pistons aren't pumping as fast and therefore not consuming as much gas.  The Rondo is rated at 20 miles per gallon in town and 26 miles per gallon on the freeway.  With my Rondo, I do almost all in town driving.  Every time when I fill up I take the millage to see what I get.  Just yesterday when I filled up, I got 23 MPG.  This is very good considering I don't do much freeway driving at all and it has been a little colder.  In the summer time, when it's hot, I will get up to 27 MPG in town.  If I were to drive on the freeway more in the summer, I don't think it would be crazy to hit 30 MPG.

Buy a Rondo, they're great.