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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic
the cable clutch [...] is light enough that I can depress the pedal to the floor with just my INDEX FINGER! This made the interstate traffic crawl much less of a pain
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The Mirage has the lightest, easiest to use clutch of any car I've ever driven. Makes the Firefly/Metro's feel like a dump truck. I keep telling people who are reluctant to choose the 5MT because of city driving to try one before going for the CVT if that's their main concern.
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my indicated mpg actually climbed from 49.1 to 49.5 in the bumper to bumper 30 mph crawl. No other car I have owned would do that
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Excellent! I also measured the car's MPG gauge at about 4% optimistic vs. MPG calculated at the pump (over 2 weeks and 3 fills, if I recall). Which isn't bad.
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Might go for 100 MPG [...] No engine off coasting.
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Just FYI, I found the onboard gauge in the car I tried wouldn't properly report engine-off coasting MPG compared to the ScanGauge (using the ignition key). The highest I could get the car to report in a brief session of low speed pulse & glide was 75-ish MPG, where the SG went past 120.