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Old 02-18-2011, 09:10 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I've personally never found P&G to be much good in an automatic. The main enemy is the torque converter. The higher the load on the engine, the more efficient it becomes, but the greater the losses through the torque converter. I generally just drive conservatively with automatics and find it not too hard to achieve 30% above EPA rating.
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