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Old 09-09-2010, 09:42 PM   #145 (permalink)
Mustang Dave
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Originally Posted by evilskillit View Post
...occasionally stomping it from 0-60... or so, doesn't hurt gas mileage nearly as much as driving at 80 does. So if you lose your cool every now and then and speed up real quick, just chill back out and you probably won't have done much damage.
That's been my experience, as well. As long as you do everything right most of the time, the occasional "Toyota moment" won't hurt your FE as much as habitually driving over the speed limit on the highway. Red lights suck.
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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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