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Old 08-19-2014, 12:55 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Can you pick up a drafting partner, big rig or bus and let them push the air away for you, at say three stripes separation, about 130 feet? How does the Accord do shifting from neutral to drive while moving at speed? My Fiesta is good for close to 50 MPG pulse drafting a larger slower moving vehicle, even at 65 MPH. Sounds like your speed limit is 70 or more to do to do 72 miles in 65 minutes, close to a 70 average?

40 should be doable with a 31 highway rating but you need to find or create opportunities to coast, even if you pulse to 5 over on a deserted road and coast down any grade that extends your coast.

If thta commute is all you drive the car then 28 is not even epa highway. Local driving also?

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