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Old 10-14-2011, 10:40 PM   #28 (permalink)
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I was just reading somewhere about the old EPA ratings... you can basically ignore the "highway" number and go by the other one.
Most people can. I've never gotten the "old" EPA city rating (19 MPG) with my Mustang. And since I found ecomodder.com, I only (occasionally) get less than the old "highway" rating on road trips. I must be doing something wrong.
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The presence of traffic is the single most complicating factor of hypermiling. I know what I'm going to do, it's contending with whatever the hell all these other people are going to do that makes things hard.
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