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Originally Posted by cheesepuff
For my next couple thousand mile trip out west, I have a modification of the 4' high box, I think will significantly boost mpg. Going west into the wind at 65 mph I was getting 14 mpg. Which was horrifying.
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That's not horrifying - when I moved from CA to FL, on my second trip I towed a 5x8 U-Haul behind my Talon, and the mind-numbing I-10 "scenery", and temps of over 100 degrees with no AC (and windows rolled up so I could hear the radar detector) caused me to speed up more and more to "get out of there". One of my tanks I got 8mpg. I won't mention what speeds I was finally driving at, but it was "fast", trailer or not ;-) When travelling around the speed limits, I topped out at 22mpg on a tank. Still cheaper than renting another truck and flatbed for the car, though.