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Originally Posted by beluga
I drove a 666cc car in Japan, often up to 70mph on their toll freeways. Doable. Not comfortable but doable. 3 cylinder car. That thing had tires as skinny as the moped I also drove there. And I once drove 8 people down the road in it.
I think 1.2-1.5L is PUHLENTY for US roads. I wish my current car was 1.5L or less instead of 2.0L, but I didn't have many (in hindsight not so affordable) used options to choose from on craigslist...
If you're maxing out at 70mph, no reason to have anything over 1.5L. And if you're on ecomodder, we're all doing around 50-65mph on freeways no?
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I personally do 75 on the freeway, but in the city I never go over 2.8k rpm when taking off from lights (which i ease the engine extremely slow up to 2.8k rpm) and never over 3k on the freeway except when I climb the Cajon pass, and even then I just run 70 @ 3k rpm.