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Old 04-29-2011, 07:37 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by kc7ekk View Post
With a cold engine, coasting in neutral uses 12% less fuel than coasting in gear. (at least for the default values in the computer of my wife's 2002 Chevy Venture). When the engine is warmed up, it flips the other way and coasting in gear saves on average 2.7% more fuel than coasting in neutral.
What do you mean with "coasting in gear" ?
Pushing in the clutch and leaving the gear lever in the gear it was in ?
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