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Old 11-27-2008, 04:46 PM   #9 (permalink)
taco
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Originally Posted by D_Bat View Post
Mythbusters did a test on it.

100ft behind was something around a 20% gain in MPG, 50 feet was 30% about, and it scaled all the way up to 20ft behind with a grand total of about 43% gain in gas mileage. I forget what episode it was but I think it was this season, which is season 12. They used some big v8 american car.
they used a v6 dodge magnum
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