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Old 05-27-2012, 11:52 AM   #33 (permalink)
Xringer
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Location: Woburn Mass USA
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I remember something about aerodynamic drag increasing with speed, not being linear.
Something like drag increasing at the square of the speed??

It's real easy to see in the (brick-like) Escape. On a flat road at 35-40 MPH, it gets 40+ MPG..
But on the highway it starts dropping off..

It's going to drop down to around 26 MPG at 60MPH and likely be less than 20 mpg at 70 MPH..
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