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To: Thud
I’m wondering if the new numbers were developed in Manhattan or Los Angeles traffic. If you’re in a constant stop-and-go on either city streets or highway driving, the mileage will drop considerably.
33 posted on 05/14/2007 12:38:57 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: DeFault User

It’s probably a mix. My freeway commute is fairly easy. Rush hour has gotten bad over the past ten years but I have flex time so I can stagger my hours so as to just miss rush hour both ways.

A fair amount of my Camry’s milage has also been 250-400 mile roundtrip mostly cruise-control freeway drives to the coast, where my children have been in college, or on vacations.

Cruise-control at freeway speeds does a lot to increase milage, especially if you stay below the speed where milage drops off sharply for a given vehicle (@ 73 mph for my Camry, but @ 67 mph for my Ford Freestyle).

I’ve been lucky that more than half my total Camry milage, perhaps as much as 2/3, has been on freeways with the cruise-control on. That has pushed my average mpg up close to the theoretical maximum.


35 posted on 05/14/2007 12:46:06 PM PDT by Thud
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