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Old 09-24-2015, 09:26 PM   #28 (permalink)
Mustang Dave
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Location: Northern Arizona - It's a DRY cold..
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Trigger - '07 Ford Mustang V6 Premium Coupe
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Sports Cars
90 day: 32.76 mpg (US)

Big Red (retired) - '89 Ford F-250 4wd Custom
90 day: 18.13 mpg (US)

Big Red II - '13 Ford F-150 FX4
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90 day: 19.61 mpg (US)
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I looked at your log. You're doing really, really well, pushing an '04 to a lifetime average over 30. That's fantastic.
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It took me almost 8 years to get my lifetime average over 30. It's NOT impossible to get over 30 MPG with a Mustang. I've done it for over 90 fill-ups. My lifetime average would likely be better if I had found ecomodder.com before I bought my Mustang.
Mine is actually an '07, and the displacement is 2.5% larger than an '04 3.9 Liter. I have overhead cams, while the '04 (if I'm not mistaken) is a push-rod engine. My "EPA combined" estimate is 20 MPG (same as for "04). My daily driving conditions are (mostly) ideal for fuel economy (with a few exceptions).
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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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