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Old 09-05-2012, 05:37 AM   #63 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by UltArc View Post
I haven't been too up to date on here, and this thread is old, but coasting today in my wife's 2008 Ford Escape 4 cylinder auto had roughly a 25% loss in efficiency by putting it in neutral. It went from 80s to 60s. Watching more carefully, rpm went from 900ish to over 1200 in neutral.

Its like that car has it backwards?
It has a high rpm, well seems high to me, my car has a 850 rpm neutral idle and 1000 rpm at cruise.
Wow, big numbers you are getting, are the figures 80 to 60's with the scangauge or at the pump?
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