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Old 02-23-2011, 06:55 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Old Tele man View Post
...my experience has been that the dashboard display (DIC) MPG numbers are consistently about 5-10% overly optimistic for our 1.4LT with 6A tranny.

...so, unless GM re-calibrated the Eco electronics, I'll bet those (original article) numbers are too high as well.
Ok then, let's redo these numbers :

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Our stop-and-go driving gave us 32.3 MPG,
our suburban driving with a mix of streets ended up at 39.8 MPG.
Extremely careful cruising on the interstate at exactly 55 MPH resulted in a stunning 57.9 MPG.
If you take advantage of the slipstream of a semi-truck (which we, of course, do not recommend), you can easily approach 65 MPG.
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0%      5% less  10% less
32.30    30.69    29.07
39.80    37.81    35.82
57.90    55.01    52.11
65.00    61.75    58.50
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