In a message dated 4/10/03 12:57:19 AM, lbusch@IX.NETCOM.COM writes: << result: just over 22mpg at 55, just under 18mpg at 70 >> I've had to make a certain trip many times during the past 2 years. I usually buzz my Syncro near redline in order to stay even with the crowd. This results in about 18 mpg for the trip. On one occasion this past winter the weather turned especially nasty which forced me to drive about 100 miles of the return leg at 35-45 mph. Thinking the gas gauge had queefed out and was reading high, I stop to fill up when I was almost home. I ended up standing in a pool of gas because I could not believe how little it was taking. At the snail's pace I had been driving, the van returned over 25 mpg! A nearly 40% decrease in fuel consumption can give one pause. George |
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