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Re: Gas Mileage?
What are your driving habits? Do you accelerate aggressively from stops, or just ease up to speed? Do you accelerate into, through, and/or out of corners, or coast through them? Do you make an effort to catch green lights, or accelerate to the red light, then wait for it to turn green?
All of these driving habits can greatly affect fuel economy, and unless you are driving exactly the same as someone else, it's apples to oranges to try to compare your fuel economy with someone elses.
I get around 13 mpg if I drive aggresively in town, or 15 if I drive reasonably, even with the air on. On the highway, with the A/C on, I can get 27 mpg. I've watched the exhaust air/fuel ratio and O2SCC so I'm comfortable the fuel management system is doing what it should.
You can check out the EPA fuel economy website to see how the EPA fuel economy ratings are calculated. Other than creating a standard to compare relative numbers from one car to another, they do not reflect what I would consider any real-world situation.
-Rod
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