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Old 04-23-2009, 06:16 PM   #37 (permalink)
Southcross
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Slow-n-Low - '81 Volkswagen Rabbit S
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90 day: 33.97 mpg (US)
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I started with a good 50/50 mix of city/highway to work... was getting a range of 30-32MPG (not driving ecofriendly on the highway)

started new job, all city and a "shorter" drive... FE started to drop down to about 25ish as the car doesn't reach operating temp for a good portion of the drive and that is with #200 worth of tools in the trunk and mostly "hill climbing" to and from work.

Hypermiling I've pushed my FE back to 28mpg and I think I have pushed it yet again to over 30... waiting on my next fill up, but my fuel gauge is showing more in the tank than I had last month with the same number of miles (hopefully that doesn't mean my gauge has stopped working right LOL)

Car needs a lot of fine tuning awaits to get the MPGs up for city driving, but hypermiling definately is helping
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Driven on Colorado roads, where NOTHING is flat
Present City 3x / Highway 4x
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