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Old 05-05-2020, 11:18 AM   #59 (permalink)
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Last 3: 70.09 mpg (US)

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90 day: 54.46 mpg (US)

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90 day: 70.75 mpg (US)

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Originally Posted by California98Civic View Post
I'll confess that I thought of quitting the forum a while ago (a year?) because I could see all the non-modding quasi-political topics getting proposed in the lounge and little else happening on the forum.

I'm glad you didn't. (But I suspect we've quietly lost a number of members for exactly that reason, and it's why Tim & I agree it's time to clamp down on the threads that tend to bring out uncivility & partisan potshots.)

I have wondered if there's a prototypical "arc" of interest/excitement/abandonment for long-time forum members.

My interest waxes & wanes with how much I drive (which is almost nil lately), but always spikes again when I get a different car (eg. my parade of winter beaters).

I still clearly remember back in the day how astonished I was to see how well pulse & glide worked; it seemed so counter-intuitive to me.
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