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Old 02-15-2015, 11:46 PM   #39 (permalink)
Mustang Dave
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Trigger - '07 Ford Mustang V6 Premium Coupe
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90 day: 32.76 mpg (US)

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90 day: 18.13 mpg (US)

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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic View Post
Above 80% the ecu enrichens the mixture for more power and mpg suffers due to enrichment.
That doesn't seem to be the case with my '07 Mustang. Accelerating on the freeway on-ramp leaving work, I regularly hit 100% load on my UltraGauge without going into open-loop. Shifting @ 2500 RPM, I'm getting 6-8 MPG in 3rd, 8-10 MPG in 4th, and 13-15 MPG in 5th while accelerating to 65 MPH. YMMV.
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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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