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Old 09-29-2014, 09:40 AM   #26 (permalink)
SilverCrown9701
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Originally Posted by 2000mc View Post
Your car should most definitely get significantly better mileage going down hill, or when coasting / light load.
This would also be why you can see a higher mpg at a higher speed when coasting. When coasting your car will only consume engough fuel to keep the engine spinning with no load, at that relatively fixed rate of fuel consuption, if your car happens to be moving at 80mph while coasting, your instant mpg would probably be near double that of coasting at 40mph
I completely agree! DWL has certainly been useful.

What I don't like is having to use slightly more throttle to keep myself in top gear on relatively flat terrain with little to no wind.

Anything below 16 TPS and I start to slow down. It's truly aggravating.

Did you happen to see what I said about using cruise control?
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