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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Double PS - also discovered a thread by Toyota UK themselves about "Hypermiling" an IQ (same engine as George, smaller car) - Part 1 and Part 2. |
There's also a part 3
500 miles in the Toyota iQ | Toyota UK news, reviews, video and pictures | Today Tomorrow
This is the funny part :
Our attempt has attracted criticism in the cleanmpg forums, much of it around our use of ‘hypermiling‘: the term was coined by cleanmpg.com owner Wayne Gerdes. Strictly speaking, having beaten iQ’s combined fuel economy figures we qualify as hypermilers, but Wayne and some of the forum’s members feel that by using the term to describe only a modest improvement over the car’s official figures, we’ve attracted criticism to the concept of hypermiling itself - that certainly isn’t what we intended.
Beating the unrealistic NEDC numbers by over 9% with a lot of city driving, you ARE hypermiling.