Acceleration and Fuel Economy Tested
 

A while back (before heading up to school, actually), I did a little late night test to find out which acceleration method worked the best with my car.

What I found out was that quicker acceleration with short shifting helped a little bit FE wise over extremely slow acceleration, and was certainly more practical.

Check out the full report at my site.

What is the best way to accelerate in an automatic ?

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Ditto Sir

Thanks for fixing, I didn't notice, :)

I've noticed that accelerating just a little quicker to get up to running speed helps just a smidge. Also helps in preventing the people behind me on the on-ramps from going crazy :)

It helps me quite a bit to accelerate briskly, enough to quickly get into the highest gear for the speed I am going to go. Mpg loss is pretty significant when spinning the engine faster in a lower gear. I also notice that accelerating slowly in a lower gear, and accelerating briskly in a lower gear, get very close to the same mileage, so it makes sense to get up to speed faster and out of the lower gears.