Thread: U.S. FTC: rules concerning fuel economy advertising may be updated
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Old 05-08-2014, 11:07 PM   #29 (permalink)
Mustang Dave
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
Baloney! 1st gen EPA were darned high and virtually unobtainable by non-hypermilers. 2nd gen EPA was easily obtainable by simply driving sensibly. 3rd gen EPA has been dumbed down to reward idiotic driving. Anyone that can't get EPA now ain't doing it right.
I've only gotten under EPA HIGHWAY mpg with my Mustang ONCE. And I had to do a few things wrong to achieve that. YMMV
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Just 'cuz you can't do it, don't mean it can't be done...
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The presence of traffic is the single most complicating factor of hypermiling. I know what I'm going to do, it's contending with whatever the hell all these other people are going to do that makes things hard.
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