06-05-2014, 11:08 AM
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YKYAEM when you're driving a borrowed F-150 crew cab pickup pulling an enclosed 16 foot cargo trailer down the highway and you notice a Corolla tuck in to draft your trailer and your first thought is...
"Well, I guess we're saving more fuel together than if we were driving separately..."
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06-05-2014, 11:19 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MetroMPG
YKYAEM when you're driving a borrowed F-150 crew cab pickup pulling an enclosed 16 foot cargo trailer down the highway and you notice a Corolla tuck in to draft your trailer and your first thought is...
"Well, I guess we're saving more fuel together than if we were driving separately..."
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06-05-2014, 11:26 AM
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No, I was just thinking basic drafting. The Corolla was saving, I probably wasn't. But collectively we used less than if we'd each been on our own.
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06-05-2014, 11:25 PM
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You know you are an ecomodder if.
You find yourself hypermiling in a videogame!
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06-05-2014, 11:39 PM
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Lol, it's happened to me in GT4 and 5. I just think how smooth it is to coast around a turn- then four cars pass me and zoom off.
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06-26-2014, 06:51 PM
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...when your first post on EM is after reading 174 pages of a "You know you're an ecomodder" thread and relate to over 90% of them.
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06-26-2014, 09:49 PM
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When your car is in the shop and a brother loans you his moter cycle and you ask the mpg and he said I get 50 you'll get less and you take it as a challenge to beat your cars mpg of 60 
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06-26-2014, 10:30 PM
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When you use an attic vent fan you bought at a yard sale for $2 to cool down your motorcycle so the engine heat doesn't make the fuel in the tank vaporize and blow gas fumes out the vent and lower your mileage.
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06-26-2014, 11:38 PM
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If you spend more time coasting then you do accelerating.
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06-27-2014, 09:02 AM
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If your MPG just from accelerating (not including EOC) is higher than 95% of your fuelly competition.
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