[SentraSE-R]

Kris,

Yes, that's the right Denny's. The weather report right now is 100% chance of rain each of the next three days, 80% on Thursday, and 70% on Friday.

I took my wife shopping and to lunch yesterday, and had to run the lights and wipers while driving in the rain. Despite the fact it's a 20 mile drive each way on my country roads, and the car gets completely warmed up, I couldn't come close to my lifetime average of 38.0 mpg in my SE-R. I could only pull 33 mpg yesterday. Ouch! In the summer, I've gotten 50 mpg on the same drive in the same car.

So, we might be looking at only achieving 40 mpg in my xB if I have to run the lights, wipers, heater fan, and (shudder) possibly the A/C to keep the windows fog-free. It will all be relative, but under the current conditions, our mileage will not be impressive. I'll probably drive us 10 miles down the road, half on the back roads with cruise control, half on the freeway, to get some baseline mpg figures. Then I'll drive back demonstrating my techniques. Hopefully a significant 10 mpg improvement compared to baseline will be more impressive than telling you I got 5 mpg less than my lifetime average that day.