[Stan]

Sorry about not posting very often, but we've been very busy in the composites shop. I'll be able to make more time for this forum now, but wanted to let everyone know I've set a new PR for around-town fuel economy. A while back I noticed that the 5-mile drive into town on the 45 mph 2-lane county road is nearly always unimpeded by other cars, so I started slowing down from the posted limit to 32-35 mph and getting even more aggressive with my hypermiling techniques. That resulted in my first-ever 900 mile tank (919 to be exact), for an average of 61.9 mpg for the tank...all in-town and slow country driving.

I do all the same-pump, same-station, fill-it-to-the-rim stuff, so I am very confident of the FE. I also drove all but 5 of those miles. The one time I took my wife's offer to drive to town I was mortified that she was driving too *wildly* ... gasp!, she went up to 45 MPH!