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Old 04-11-2008, 09:48 AM   #10
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Bruce -

I'll join you in the anomaly corner. I think our numbers are about 16/13, although that was in a hilly part of southern California.

A couple interesting sidenotes. We have one of those fancy mpg meters so we can watch it in real time. Simply turning the air conditioner on and off makes more than 1 mpg difference. But if it is hot out, I'll pay the price.

And, as expected, turning off overdrive makes a lot of difference since it increases engine RPM. But in hilly country I turn it off anyway. Gasoline, expensive as it is, is cheaper than transmissions.

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