[stealthscythe]

Does anyone know what happens mechanically when the Active Eco mode is switched on?

 

[Tex2013VT]

Yeah... your performance goes down the drain! LMAO!!

 

[RieBauer17]

It just tells the car to shift sooner to keep the engine at low RPMs. I'm assuming that unless you have the pedal to the floor it would accelerate extremely slow.

 

[Veloster0517]

I love the Active Eco mode. *On highway driving ONLY* I live approximately 65km from my workplace and when I had my Jeep Liberty, I would have to fill up after at least 3 trips. When I purchased my VT, I was introduced to this Active Eco mode. Mind you, The VT saves a ton of gas comparing to my Jeep. I am laughing when it comes to paying for gas. Anyways, so I did a little test. With the Active Eco disabled, I get approximately 5.8-6.2L/100km. And this is at a speed of 120km. Now with the Active Eco mode enabled, yes accelerating onto the ramp sucks, but I was averaging 4.6-5.4L/100km and was with the same 120km speed.

So at the end of the day, Active Eco, yes does you great good on the highway traveling long distances, but unfortunately affects performance. So if you are at a stop light and you want to show off to the ladies standing at the corner or the guy in the lane next to you revving his engine, please make sure you have the Active Eco mode off LOL. Not only will you have a bad response to throttle, but you will be embarrassed because those ladies will be laughing at you and that guy in the next lane will be long gone. Also, you will make the VT just come off as a shitty car. :haha:

CHEERS!

 

[Boots Ylectric]

The four live guinea pigs living in your intake resonator crawl up through the intake tube, through the throttle body, down through the heads, and into the combustion chambers where they manually push the pistons up and down. It's really fascinating engineering.

 

[TheGeekFreek]

So if you are at a stop light and you want to show off to the ladies standing at the corner or the guy in the lane next to you revving his engine, please make sure you have the Active Eco mode off LOL. Not only will you have a bad response to throttle, but you will be embarrassed because those ladies will be laughing at you and that guy in the next lane will be long gone. Also, you will make the VT just come off as a shitty car. :haha:

CHEERS!

So what color was his car? lol

 

[Veloster0517]

So what color was his car? lol

LMAO Good one! But in all seriousness. Do not use the Active ECO on streets where you have a lot of stop lights.

 

[stealthscythe]

That's pretty impressive. I have yet to make a long highway trip to really see how low I can push my VT in terms of mileage. Have you been making your commute with the stock tires or with winters?

My commute is 15km but in pretty heavy traffic on the way home. I'm embarrassed to admit I've been only able to squeeze 10.0 L/100km (actual) on my commuting days. Weekends, I've hit readings around 8.1L/100 km

 

[GT800]

So what color was his car? lol

Haha that was good. Just remember to if the ladies were dressed really skimpy they still would have smiled.... For a fee