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Originally Posted by Hersbird
What's wrong with going 55mph? The point is what a car is capable of and what trade offs the person is willing to live with. There are plenty of road trips I can take around here and comfortably set the cruise at 55 and run through a tank. I can also get on the interstate and set the cruise at 85 mph and run through a tank. Guess what, even a Prius is probably not going to get 40 mpg doing the latter but every time I'm on the interstate they pass me doing just that.
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I wonder if anyone's done a study on actual highway speeds over the last fifteen years? Just in that time, I feel like the average speed has crept upward, to the point where on this last road trip to NY I felt like I was poking along going 70-72 mph with traffic still flying past me, where in 2004 when I drove across the country for the first time I could comfortably go 65 mph and not feel like I was holding up trucks and whatnot.