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Old 03-10-2010, 12:37 PM   #11 (permalink)
5speed5
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TBSS - '08 Trailblazer SS 2WD
90 day: 18.87 mpg (US)

Wife's car - '09 Impala SS
90 day: 22.96 mpg (US)

Big Blue Hippo - '06 HHR 2LT
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Originally Posted by tasdrouille View Post
It's a man thing!

My wife drives slower on the highway than she used to. She also takes the receipt when filling up, and goes as far as writing the tank mileage on it before she gives it to me. But she's not going to read and post here in a hundred years. It's not just that important to her, and probably most women out there.
Same with my wife. Her car has a Driver Info Center (i.e. built-in scangauge) and she leaves it on the
instantaneous fuel economy reading most of the time and goes easy on the gas pedal to try to maximize the reading, but that's as far as it goes...she'd never post on a website about it.


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