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Old 03-31-2015, 09:54 AM   #60 (permalink)
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It partly depends on your normal driving routes. If you do lots of highway driving, sure, aerodynamics would be a big improvement. If, like me, most of your time is spent at city speeds (below 45 mph), the big costs to mileage are in accelerating and braking and idling. A gauge is useful to know how to manage those optimally. On the highway, aerodynamic drag is the biggest cost and there's not much accelerating and braking and idling.
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