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Originally Posted by newhavenpatriot

I've gotten the best mileage with my automatic so far just by going real easy on the gas pedal. Try to look far ahead and if you see a red light and stopped cars, get your foot off the gas and coast up to it (if no one's behind you).

Keep your RPMs as low as possible, especially going uphill. I always want to step on the gas to get it to maintain speed, but I listen to the engine and back off of the gas pedal if I think it's going to downshift. That is, if no cars are behind me. If someone's behind me, I accelerate enough to match the speed limit. And I won't coast down a hill, because I don't believe in breaking the speed limit to get better mileage.

That being said, I won't drive below the speed limit and hold people up, either. That's the biggest problem for me... there's so much traffic in Connecticut and someone's always behind me, so I can't really experiment too much with all this coasting and what not, and I can't drive 55 on the 65 mph speed limit highway that's near my house, cause people drive 70-80 on it and I'd die before too long. I guess my only hope is fixing my aerodynamics somehow.