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Originally Posted by Christ
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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+1 for rolling hills. I have a couple good ones on my commute and coasting in N with my auto Neon helps the mileage quite a bit. I'm not afraid to speed on them either but usually I don't go more than 25km/h over. The key to hills I think is climbling them, for my cars it seems top gear is always best so even though it seems unnatural to get a run at a hill, if it helps you stay in top gear to the top I think you come out ahead.