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02-02-2009, 12:49 AM	#11 (permalink)
Frank Lee (: Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: up north Posts: 12,762 Blue - '93 Ford Tempo Last 3: 27.29 mpg (US) F150 - '94 Ford F150 XLT 4x4 90 day: 18.5 mpg (US) Sport Coupe - '92 Ford Tempo GL Last 3: 69.62 mpg (US) ShWing! - '82 honda gold wing Interstate 90 day: 33.65 mpg (US) Moon Unit - '98 Mercury Sable LX Wagon 90 day: 21.24 mpg (US) Thanks: 1,585 Thanked 3,555 Times in 2,218 Posts	Maybe 5 or 6 am Sunday morning? Different road surfaces can play a part too. I'd try to do it all on the same piece of road, only when it's dead calm.

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It's not easy to collect good data in the real world

Ain't that the truth.

Still, it's good to get out and collect some data points for your car.

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I'm sure these numbers would be significantly higher in warmer weather

I'm sure you'd see a big difference. I have a couple of warm weather multiple run data points for my dad's Corolla that I should post on top of the cold weather speed vs mpg graph I did for it...

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One of the problems with 3:00 AM testing is the deer and other wild life that treat the highway as their playground about then.

Deer - is that what you call them? Around here we call the wild life - racers or teenagers.

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