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Originally Posted by ConnClark
Just get a diesel and you can run it as lean as you want by taking your foot of the accelerator  |
It's actually one of the first things I started doing around mid 2008.
I had seen that reducing the throttle a bit after overshooting the target speed by a few kph gave better FE than accelerating to the target speed and staying there.
So I made it into a habit to lightly and slightly lift my right foot to increase fuel economy while the speed remained constant - but overdoing it made the speed drop considerably.
Very tiring, as I had to keep my foot in the exact same position - a bit of a bump was enough to ruin the effect.
Even now with the CC, I hit the "-" button after setting the speed.
It hardly changes the speed, but it improves the (indicated) FE instantly.