Go big (As gas prices drop, America resumes big car love affair)

[serialk11r]

Well since gas has dropped so much, I've started going 65 instead of 55 on the freeway because I don't even drive much and my car doesn't use much gas in the first place, and now that gas is even cheaper I'm not sure that the few dollars a tank is worth saving. I have a feeling the rest of the cars on the freeway started going faster too, but maybe it's just because I started using the lanes with faster cars in them lol.

Funny thing is, since I'm so used to going slow and saving fuel, I have a much stronger urge to do some highway friendly mods to my car now that I can hear the wind noise and see the rev counter at an uncomfortably high place.

[Hypermiler1995]

Originally Posted by serialk11r

Well since gas has dropped so much, I've started going 65 instead of 55 on the freeway because I don't even drive much and my car doesn't use much gas in the first place, and now that gas is even cheaper I'm not sure that the few dollars a tank is worth saving. I have a feeling the rest of the cars on the freeway started going faster too, but maybe it's just because I started using the lanes with faster cars in them lol.

Funny thing is, since I'm so used to going slow and saving fuel, I have a much stronger urge to do some highway friendly mods to my car now that I can hear the wind noise and see the rev counter at an uncomfortably high place.

NO! He's fading fast, somebody help!

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by Old Mechanic

I paid 1 cpm in 1968 for my 59 Sprite.

But since - thanks to inflation - that 1968 cent was worth 7* of today's cents, not much has changed. Except the Sentra isn't nearly as much fun as a Sprite :-(



*OK, I rounded. 6.82 to be precise: CPI Inflation Calculator

[jcp123]

I have actually been craving a bit of a unicorn - a Passat W8 wagon with a 6-speed. Only about 100 were sold in the US.

[awcook]

Originally Posted by serialk11r

Well since gas has dropped so much, I've started going 65 instead of 55 on the freeway because I don't even drive much and my car doesn't use much gas in the first place, and now that gas is even cheaper I'm not sure that the few dollars a tank is worth saving. I have a feeling the rest of the cars on the freeway started going faster too, but maybe it's just because I started using the lanes with faster cars in them lol.

Funny thing is, since I'm so used to going slow and saving fuel, I have a much stronger urge to do some highway friendly mods to my car now that I can hear the wind noise and see the rev counter at an uncomfortably high place.

I've started going 60 instead of 70-85 since I've started hypermiling. I don't have the courage to do 55 yet (too slow man) and have saved tons of fuel. Weird thing is that once I started doing that, gas prices have been dropping, so I guess that leaves more money in my pocket

The hardest thing about going slow is that if I wanted to draft from a truck, I have to speed up to 70 to catch up. Oh well, guess that means that I've got some modding to do to balance out the lack of draft.

[jcp123]

Some of my best mileage was drafting a truck at about 68-70mph. 50.75mpg from here to Fort Worth, over two hours' drive. And only one hour of that was behind the truck! I think I had it up to around 52 or 53mpg when the truck made its exit. Another time I made about a 50min trip to tender an application for a city job, up and down that highway there are plenty of trucks and a lot of 55-60psl. It's been a while now but I recall getting up to 56 or so mpg.

Highway driving, I use a constant throttle rather than constant speed, although about 40 min out from here towards Dallas (my usual destination when I'm on the highway) it flattens out enough that cruise control would probably work almost as well.

[Cd]

YKYAEM when you don't even notice - or care - what the price of gas is.