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For the sake of your fellow drivers, please only do this where you can safely and easily be passed.
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Got 21.7 coming back from the post office to the office. No full stops at 3 intersections, used neutral more after getting up to speed. Seems the paddles will up shift to 2nd and 3rd at 1400 rpm manually vs around 2000+ in automatic. Think these things made a difference. Will see on the way home.
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Adjusting to the Life
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Its funny when someone in an old SUV which gets 12mpg sees me at the gas station and asks "what's that thing get for mileage?" and I tell them about twice theirs! ![]() I love my 435HP tree-hugging, economical, grocery-getter. ![]() |
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I think I'm normal...
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I started doing this after the price of gas shot up. I read somewhere that you should drive as though you have a hard boiled egg between your foot and the accelerator. You are allowed to crack the shell, but not allowed to squish the egg.
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I average 2? mpg in my WRX T/R. But since the price of gas has dropped and it's so much fun to drive....
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God Like Status
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I have a 160 hp race chip in my 10K pounds of American made diesel drinking F350. Not made for hyper mileing -
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Noticed that on the way to the bank as i got there had gotten 12.8 MPG. Paid attention and with no real changes other than keeping my rpms down and forcing upshifts with the paddles at 1750 RPM got 18.9 on the way back.
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F.U.B.O.
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Dear Lord, Thank You.
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I get 15mpg in the Envoy while I'm smoking a cigar, lounging in my giant heated seats, listening to my ipod at mind-numbing volume.
I don't even have to pay attention or nothing, still 15.5 mpg. I can't imagine giving up all that comfort and power to get 12.8 mpg on the way to the bank. That'd make me crack. ![]() What's that thing gotten over the life of the car? Since I got my Envoy it's 15.5 mpg. I've wondered how the Prius really does cause I hear a lot of folks griping. |
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Dear Lord, Thank You.
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Atta boy.
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Dear Lord, Thank You.
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Re the Prius, I rented one a few weeks ago in MD to see what was what. Not the compact car of our youth. Pretty roomy due to its jelly bean shape. Lots of width and leg room. I was surprised. Got 48 MPG just flogging it and going 80 on the highway was overall pretty impressed. A blinged out version/better looking car might be tempting. Like the concept of regenerative braking in any vehicle to help the city MPG. If you look at the newly released Mercedes they use a battery no larger than the normal one to do the duty and a generic inline electric motor. More performance and better mileage = a good thing.
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Dear Lord, Thank You.
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All that tech cranks out a whopping 17mpg. ![]() I like a lot of metal and I enjoy feeling like I'm driving my living room to the store. If they get around to building an STS that gets 30mpg, it might pique my attention. Otherwise I'm trapped in the stone-age. ![]() |
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Noticed my Maxima seems to get better mileage in gear also. (tough to tell for real -- no computer display). I just do it to save more gas money for my '03 SVT Cobra -- has a supercharged V8 that I've gotten down to 2mpg whilst "driving spiritedly". (it normally gets about 18-20mpg around town, though)
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Got 10.5 on the way to work. I was late and hittin it!
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