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When I'm heading home,my last big hill (I'm turning right onto Poway road from SB hwy 67 (This is in San Diego County), I try to take the curve right around 30mph, and that will put me at the crest of the hill at around 27mph. Keeping the car in drive, without touching the brakes, but 1/3 of teh way down, I'll hit 55, in which I then downshift the vehicle and being in the lower gear, will take me to teh bottom of teh hill, at teh traffic light.
SO this guy behind me, in his lifted muscle wagon, get's behind me at the crest when I'm doing 27mph, and he honks his horn and raises up his hands in disguest. Of course, I did nothing, and by teh time I hit 55, he was way, way, way, back.
He did catch up to me later and started cussing at me. I smiled and yelled "I'm currently averaging 41.9mpg today, what's yours?"
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I drive-
08 Honda Civic LX sedan, auto
01 Chevy Silverado truck
99 Ford Contour sedan (Well, that's the wife's).
And a 1907 Baldwin Steam Locomotive (Really)
I tend to convert to Mobil-1 around the 8K mark
I'm also a believer in "Tufoil"-been adding that in my vehicles for 20+ years (And yes, I'm experimented with Duralube, Slick50, Prolong and zmax, and what did I find? No improvement in MPG. I keep on coming back to Tufoil).
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