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Old 05-29-2012, 10:49 PM   #9 (permalink)
Mustang Dave
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Originally Posted by Flakbadger View Post
... and I am literally paying my car payment in money I'm not spending on gas, especially at $4.29/gallon US.
Fixed it for you.

I tried premium fuel in my Mustang for a few fills with the premium fuel power program on my Hypertech power programmer. FE was the same or even down a couple of tenths of an MPG. Not worth $.20/gallon for same or less FE, but performance was better.
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Just 'cuz you can't do it, don't mean it can't be done...
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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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