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It can be any kind of record, not necessarily measured by mpg. It can be a record that you beat since but you remember that moment as a great one, may be that changed something... (if so then tell what).

Here are a few others :

• First week arriving before 8:05 AM in office every morning (always 1st in my company and once 1st in the building) and got no morning or evening commute lasting more than 55 minutes.

• First coasting in neutral on 1 km with tires pumped-up at 3.0 bar (44 psi).
• First coasting in neutral on 1.6 km with tires pumped-up at 3.2 bar (47 psi). On this segment I'm currently coasting only on 1.2 km because I use a slower max speed as the last 400 m contains 2 round about that are generally under traffic.
• First heavy use of pulse and coast in neutral in city with tires pumped-up at 3.5 bar (51 psi = max sidewall). I had the feeling to fly... since I want an hybrid conceived to stop the ICE in such situations (I don't feel comfortable with the idea of stopping the engine in my current cars : the steering wheel and the brakes are too hard when not assisted).

• First commute with 12 engine stops instead of idling. Before that I was stopping only 2/3 times before worrying too much about the battery, now I can stop 5/6 times before beginning to worry.

• The first EPA+50% (52 mpg) tank in megane with rear wheel skirts.
• The first 50 mpg tank in megane without rear wheel skirts.
• The first EPA+40% (56 mpg) day in scenic with full grill block and wiper cover.

• The first 1000+ km (620 mi) tank in megane then in scenic. Now I know that both trip odometers display only 3 digits... I also know that coasting in neutral is efficient.
• The first 1100+ km (680 mi) tank in scenic. Now I know that I can be more consistent in my daily commutes, but also that a single trip in city can kill your tank.

• The first time I made a trip last 10% more time and saved 30% gas compared to what I was doing previously on that trip.
• The first time I didn't took the highway and consumed less gas than through the highway.
• My first 400+ mi 3 days trip at 53 mpg in scenic with wife, child and lots of Xmas gifts, included a 64 mi leg at 59 mpg.

• The first 900+ km tank by my wife
• Our first 50 mpg shared tank my wife and I in the scenic.

• The great feeling of having a cleaner car when you change air&oil filters and oil from 10w to 5w.

About the coasting time, I have only 2 hands : one on the wheel and one on the manual stick; so I used 2 methods :

• my wife activating a stopwatch when I was saying stop (in neutral) and start (in gear), but she didn't really appreciated to be used as such and so she got the feeling the trip was never ending...
• a voice recorder

I tried to count orally a couple times but when traffic is too heavy I can't concentrate me on traffic and counting. Anyway when you are at "two hundred and seventy seven, two..." then you spend more than one second per second...

Denis.