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Old 04-06-2008, 11:51 PM   #32 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RH77 View Post
Yeah, that sounds to be an oversimplified statement -- probably to appeal to city-only drivers to focus mostly on tires, etc. The graph doesn't seem to equate. I used the x=0 as well (which is confirmed by the legend). Probably what their doing is stating that aero and tires are equal at 50, but is actually double, which negates the x=0 assumption of evenness -- which happens at, what ~18 mph?
I figured it out... Zero is at the line of the item below the one you're looking at. The zero for tires occurs at the top of "other" and the zero for aero occurs at the line for tires. When you calculate the range based on that - it matches the data written (and a graph a few pages down)...

A poor method to communicate data
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