As a pensioner, I have to minimise the running costs of my car so I traded my 3-Series BMW for what I thought would be a much more economical car. I chose a Honda Civic Hybrid because the website and the brochure claimed an average fuel consumption of 61.4 MPG. Now, having done over 3,000 miles including two long motorway runs of over 800 miles each, I am barely making 40mpg. I wrote to Honda drawing their attention to this and received a reply that contained a lot of weasel words about Honda having to carry out tests according to the Ministry of Transport regulations etc. They also stated that every driving style was different and that road conditions had a bearing on the results obtained. They ended this part by saying "For these reasons the fuel consumption achieved on the road is unlikely to be the same as official test results”. The letter ended by advising me not to have my car checked over at my garage as I was not going to get any better fuel consumption. Now I can appreciate that everybody drives differently and could accept as much as a 10% reduction from the official figures but not the 50% that I am experiencing. I feel Honda has cheated me with their spurious claims and would like your advice on what can be done about this. Surely Honda should be required to state what normal drivers may expect as to fuel consumption and not publish unobtainable figure that are obviously used as a dishonest selling point.