Best tank so far this year!

[whokilledthejams]

I just squeezed out 35.8mpg this weekend-- most of my last tank was driving to the suburbs of Toronto and back on Friday (296 miles round-trip-- it was for a seminar for work). This included spending an hour in stop'n'go rush hour traffic on the way home, too. Not too shabby.

Now that the threat of snow is minimal, I need to reapply the coroplast under my front bumper. I think I'm going to switch from christmas trees to hollow wall anchors as fasteners.

In other news, I should have a Rostra cruise control system arriving tomorrow. Hopefully, the weather will turn a little nicer by the weekend, so I can get it in. I find that long drives (over an hour at a stretch) are tough-- I just don't have the stamina to be steady enough to get really great mpg. I regularly managed in the high 30s last summer-- setting cruise to 65 on the I-90 could probably get me 40+.

[SVOboy]

Good stuff,

[UfoTofU]

Keep up the good work

[Matt Herring]

whokilledthejams,

Was this record tank on the QEW to Toronto? You gotta go 80 mph to not get run over on that crazy highway!

Good job bro!

[whokilledthejams]

Originally Posted by Matt Herring

whokilledthejams,

Was this record tank on the QEW to Toronto? You gotta go 80 mph to not get run over on that crazy highway!

Good job bro!

Yes, 2/3 of this last tank was on the QEW and 403. When traffic isn't backed up, everyone there drives way too fast. Early in the morning, it wasn't bad-- there wasn't any traffic (and 6am is a great time to cross the Peace Bridge), so I could not-speed pretty effectively.

I probably could have done better, mpg-wise, if I had to drive that same distance anywhere else, really. All things considered, I didn't do too badly.

[whokilledthejams]

Thanks, guys!

[Matt Herring]

I went to college and live in Buffalo for 9 years and took quite a few trips to Toronto on the QEW. I wasn't familiar with hypermiling at that time but can only imagine trying to do it on the QEW...crazy!