Re: Yeeeeeeee-ha!

[Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>]

In article <200108301735.AA297926966@141.com>, Laura Gharazeddine
<Laura.G@141.com> writes

>>Traffic does
>>go that fast when it can around here (and 85-90 the interstates)
>>My car has no trouble doing that all day (two road trips
>>to AZ demonstrated that... even got 29 MPG at that speed)
>
>Wow! 29 mpg! I get more like 20 when cruising in 4th above 
>4000rpm. I get probably closer to 25 with I drop the speed down.

Then something's wrong.   Even allowing for the fact that your gallons
are smaller than ours, that's still very poor performance.   The only
time I did a long drive at high speed (200 miles, averaging 80 mph) my
fuel consumption was just a shade under 40 miles per imperial gallon.
I get about 32 mpg commuting in rush hour.

ATB
-- 
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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