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Originally Posted by dirtydave
cowmeat I wouldn't be suprized if you had a higher top speed too.
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Let's do some math. The speed limit is 65 the whole way, and Cow decides to do 55 or 60. 800 miles would be ~13.5 hours with no stops. Now let's assume that for every 10 gallons you go through, you spend an average of 5 minutes per gas station (some fill fast, others slow). With a 32 gallon tank, we will assume that Striker refills every 30 gallons for simplicity's sake. 5miles / 8 gal would be 0.625 MPG. That would be 1280 gallons of gas. So Striker will go 18 miles at around 120 MPH between each fillup. That means ~9 minutes between fillups. With no fillups, going 800 miles at 120 MPH, Striker would do the run in about 6.5 hours. But, for every 9 minutes, he has to wait 15 minutes to fill up the tank. The total trip would make Striker spend 1035 minutes or 17.5 hours. The average speed of the trip would be about 45 MPH.
As for highest top speed, Cow would be able to maintain top speed of about 120(?) for significantly longer than Striker's (assumed) top speed of 145(?). I think it's safe to assume that Cow could probably maintain top speed the whole time while Striker does 60 and still get there faster using less gas (maybe, my car does 8 MPG floored at 72, not sure how the Insight does).