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Old 12-22-2011, 06:22 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by instarx View Post
1 mpg? I find that hard to believe.
Subaru might be eluding to a worse case scenario under crosswind.I believe that Ford Motor publishes a crosswind averaged Cd for yaw conditions up to 8-degrees.
GM-Volvo Heavy Truck Corp. published findings that a crosswind can knock an 18-wheelers mpg down by up to 12%.
1-mpg is a lot to claim.It's hard to know without being a fly on the wall.
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