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Old 04-30-2019, 04:46 PM   #245 (permalink)
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Last 3: 70.09 mpg (US)

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90 day: 70.75 mpg (US)

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First 70 MPG round trip of 2019



I got a pretty easy 70 MPG US round trip, over 180 km yesterday. 12 C / 54 F.

That's with DWL on the back roads/scenic route, at a cruising target speed of ~75 km/h in order to compare the Metro's MPG against the Prius Prime's ICE-only MPG on the same route at similar speeds.

Outcome: The Prius won, and did it in wet weather vs. dry for the Metro.

The Metro's summer tires are back on (RE92's), plus it recently got a fresh oil change and a cleaned up distributor cap & rotor (electrodes were getting pretty carbon-y). I should check the spark plugs.
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