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Old 08-24-2009, 08:13 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Tygen - I believe that the gently rolling hills are perfect, even for neutral coasting w/ the engine on, because you can maximize your downhill stints with only short bursts of acceleration, and even the curves slow you down a bit if you pick up too much speed.

The longer, steeper hills aren't great, because you're wasting alot of energy in braking trying to keep your speed down.

I try to time my acceleration so that I can put it in neutral and speed up to the speed limit going down a hill, so that I don't have to waste as much gas speeding up.

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