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Old 12-17-2012, 09:04 PM   #12 (permalink)
Mustang Dave
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Trigger - '07 Ford Mustang V6 Premium Coupe
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90 day: 32.76 mpg (US)

Big Red (retired) - '89 Ford F-250 4wd Custom
90 day: 18.13 mpg (US)

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....... Or, on the other hand I can buy a new Prius and drive it a little and my wife takes it for a weekend trip and gets the 1.7% below EPA that you can see in my signature. Stuff happens, we can't all get amazing mileage 100% of the time.
But we can still try. One of my co-workers asked me in June, "Why do you drive so slow?" (he passed me with his Tacoma en route to the event) I answered, "I drive the speed limit." I set an all-time record on my next fill in my Mustang. 32.32 MPG
In some situations, the effort is worth it.
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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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