[MetroMPG]

Greetings from Madison, WI!

Ben (SVOboy) picked me up at the in the company car at the Milwaukee airport and I got my first ride in a lowered, lean-burned, MPGuino-equipped (thank you, dcb!) vehicle.

Conclusion: lean burn is awesome fuel economy for the lazy. Holy cow - do nothing more than take it easy on the gas, avoid the dropping-out-of-lean-burn-stumble and be richly rewarded. Or less penalized. Depending on how you look at it. How about 68 mpg on the airport trip at around 60 mph.

The CRX, and later Ben Nelson's electric motorcycle and a bunch of signs and a couple of laptop slide shows made up the EM display. People liked the CRX ("68 mpg @ 60 mph signs taped to the windows), and loved the e-motorbike.

Met a bunch of people from the forums (quite a few CMPG hybrid owners in attendance) including EM members Arminius, bestmapman, Daox, bennelson (of course) and semi-lurker krousdb. Sorry if I forget anybody else. My brain was a bit fried by the end of the day.

Also got to check out krousdb's Prius (thanks for the HSD driving clinic), Daox's Paseo and bennelson's S-10.

We'll be there again tomorrow if anybody's in the neighbourhood (Alliant Energy Centre.

Madison's nice, but I'm looking forward to getting back to Ottawa and driving that Kammback down the highway to gather more butt-o-meter readings on how well it seemed to work...

And I'll get and post a bunch of pics tomorrow. Some interesting vehicles here.