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Old 05-21-2016, 01:45 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Lonesome Trail View Post
There was an episode of Top Gear where they raced a Prius and a BMW around their track for a bit, the BMW was chasing the Prius which the Stig was driving as hard as he could. They compared fuel economy numbers at the end of the race, and the BMW M-Series got twice the fuel economy as the Prius...
...you misremember--they claimed 14mpg for the Prius and 16mpg for the BMW. And the BMW was drafting the Prius for the duration of the "test."
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