11-19-2012, 05:09 PM
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Originally Posted by niky
as how the less aerodynamic cars with smaller engines (Soul, Veloster) lost out more, I'm betting most of the fudge was in aero versus coastdown...
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Hyundai and Kia said Nov. 2 the flawed mpg ratings were the result of how engineers in South Korea conducted the EPA’s “coastdown” test. The test, in which a vehicle accelerates to about 80 miles an hour on a flat, straight road, is put into neutral and then allowed to coast down to about 9 mph, wasn’t done correctly, the companies said.
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Source: Hyundai Fuel-Economy Flap Seen as Turned Tables for Honda - Bloomberg
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