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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).
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Yeah, I get around 60 mpg at 70 mph, but if I drive 55 the whole way I get more like 85 mpg. If I never had to stop and start and it was all highway miles, I could drive 55 mph and go way over 900 miles.
My wife wondered what it would cost us if we drove from central Florida up to southern Illinois to see her family. She was hoping maybe we could do it for less than 300 bucks. I told her if we took our time I could fill up as we left Lakeland and make it to Illinois on one tank, which is less than twenty bucks at this point. Round trip, including driving around for a couple hundred miles up there, would be about fifty bucks.
She doesn't get shocked easily after living with me, but that did it!