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Originally Posted by Cobb
FYI, driving the truck in this manner is similar to how people abuse the lean burn mode in the Insight and Civics to get supreme fuel economy. In many cases the power generated is not enough to sustain highway speeds so they drive slower like 50 mph or do a modified pulse & glide using lean burn in the glide part to extend the coasting aspect til they hit the bottom speed and reaccelerate.
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Define "abuse", We're all driving around in boxes of steel with even tinier boxes of steel which have explosive petrol and air and spark mixes, and to top it off we "abuse" the internals by skimping on oil changes, and by throwing all of this at other objects at 60-120km/h.
Most of us don't even wax the outer part of our steel boxes to keep the paint job in check.
Other people (not me) then neglect to do regular life-saving changes on the lifeblood which permits these flying bits of metal to run smoothly and operate as it was designed to.
If you ask me the human race needs to be abused for a while, poor things.
If it were up to me no engine would ever go above 1,200 rpm in any gear, it would last for 2 million miles and the body would be made from stainless steel.
But its just not practical. Can't hurt to try though on the way to church :P
Other traffic is what prevents me from driving at <40km/h speeds (25mph), I've been known to even tell my neighbours that I want the residential speed limit reduced to 25-30km/h.
Drool:
What we need is really really big flywheels.