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New Personal Best- 45.73mpg ALL CITY!!!
Well, the $250 Metro just keeps getting better! Delivering pizza for 5 days with it I saw 45.73 MPG today. My latest mod is a freebie warm air intake that I did by simply removing the inlet hose to the air cleaner. As for other stuff, I have 0W-30 Mobil 1 oil, 42 psi tire pressure, removed the passenger seat (for cargo space, not weight reduction) and a crappy partial grille block that is made of an old pizza sign and zip ties. That's it. It even has the original hub caps and 12 inch wheels. I also added a factory tachometer cluster and some extra interior lighting and a second power port for my GPS but that has little to do with fuel economy.
As for driving technique, I use a lot of engine off coasting-maybe 20-30 miles a tank. I also drive without brakes as much as possible and hit corners so hard that the brake light comes on in the dash. Now you would think that a hypermiling pizza delivery driver would be slow and lose money due to a lack of tips but not me. I am always in the top three of driver rankings and within 20 seconds of the top leg time when the times are posted. I'm also my store's top grossing driver most weeks as well. So, hypermiling need not slow you down if you can figure out how to do it properly. It helps to spend 40-50 hours a week behind the wheel of the same little car too...
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(Note: the car sees 100% city driving and is EPA rated at 37 mpg city)
Last edited by Jim-Bob; 02-23-2011 at 01:55 AM..
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