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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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To: Thud

That’s interesting you figured out where the most bang for the buck is on speed/mileage. As I said in a previous post the Civic will get 40 mpg when my wife is going along at 70, maybe 75, but it drops to 36-37 when I hover around 80. I have an Accord that was struggling to get 25 city but now it has limbered up and can get about 28. Highway mileage is similar to your Camry.


38 posted on 05/14/2007 12:54:17 PM PDT by DeFault User
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