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Old 12-14-2009, 10:47 PM   #17 (permalink)
Mustang Dave
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90 day: 32.76 mpg (US)

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...and, there's also "engine break-in"...slowly but surely increasing MPG for no other (apparent) reason than accumulated age/miles...on both brand new engine and tires!
Absolutely. My average fuel economy with my new Mustang was steadily increasing over time even before I found ecomodder.com and made adjustments to my driving technique and commuting route. I can only attribute that increase to engine and tire break-in. I'm not looking forward to the FE hit I'll take when I have to re-tire it.
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The presence of traffic is the single most complicating factor of hypermiling. I know what I'm going to do, it's contending with whatever the hell all these other people are going to do that makes things hard.

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