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Old 09-05-2013, 07:08 PM   #38 (permalink)
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I understand the idea behind social media and getting the word out to the masses but I think the best advertisement would be a car sticker. Considering almost all of us drive slower than traffic on the highway there is ample opportunity for people to see our back and side windows.

Just an ecomodder.com sticker wouldn't be all the effective though. There should be a spot to put each car's MPG on the sticker. The sticker (and/or magnet?) should be of some material where you could write on it semi-permenantly; kinda like a dry erase board idea but better. Being able to change it lets your advertise your gains to the people that pass you on the road...some of them on a daily basis. Next time they fill up, they might check their MPG, time after that they might start wondering "how does that guy get such high mpg? Maybe I'll check out that website".

Most of us have small economy cars that get good mpg unlike "most" of America who pass us in the their SUVs but I think that the members here who have pickups, SUVs and other "not-so-economical" cars could really make an impression on the masses by using the sticker idea...for a "hey, that guy gets 20 more MPG than me in the same truck, what is he doing to get that kind of economy?" type situation.
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2007 Ford Focus ZX5 - 91k - SGII, pending upper and lower grill bocks - auto trans
1987 Monte Carlo SS - 5.3/4L80E swap - 13.67 @ 106
2007 Ford Focus Estate - 230k - 33mpg - Retired 4/2018
1995 Saturn SL2 - 256K miles - 44mpg - Retired 9/2014

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