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LOL everyone saw through it all pretty quick.
I suppose the moral is that small MPG increases in a larger car are to be preferred to large mpg increases in the smaller car.
The car manufacturers have it all wrong in how they try to boost their fleet economy. Instead of making the big vehicles get better economy, they take a 1.5L small sedan and add an electric motor and battery pack and make it even more economical. Why not do that with their pickups? Or their minivans?
If a family has 2 vehicles seeing similar miles, but 1 is getting much worse economy, the focus should be to get the 10 mpg truck up 5 mpg rather than to get the 40 mpg car to 50 mpg. Sure, a smaller car gets much better mileage, but you can't haul 4x8 sheets of plywood in the back of the Metro. (well, not easily :P)
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I think you missed the point I was trying to make, which is that it's not rational to do either speed or fuel economy mods for economic reasons. You do it as a form of recreation, for the fun and for the challenge.
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