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Originally Posted by litesong
Only by excellent luck was I able to buy my auto Elantra with lots of nice options for $15,500, but I did. Elantra is supremely beautiful, but of exceedingly low 131 lbs-ft of torque. Recently, a highway trip & return with travels into a town & a smaller city w/two major cool-downs, but freeway travel limited to GPS:62mph(mostly) to GPS:66-69mph(occasionally), netted a trip computer reading of 43.8 mpg. Your extra speed travels at 79 mph netting 36mpg, shows how the Elantra small torque will kill mpg, despite Elantra being fairly aerodynamic(no mods).
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My brother-in-law complains that the car lacks power for hills, but my sister says that he must not know how to downshift.
Sure, had I driven by myself, I would have wanted to drive fifty-five, but we needed to drop our lives, hurry out there, help the family, rush back, and try to catch up. Even though one nephew had the iPad and the other had an iPhone, hardly anybody likes traveling.