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Old 02-20-2011, 07:23 PM   #4 (permalink)
bestclimb
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my guess if you are in the mountains you would be going from plenty of throttle to go up(out of lean burn) and DFCO or some type of coasting to go down. VX may not be the right car.

another advantage to a metro is less inertia coming back down, so less brakes.
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