If your ever in Weyewega try speeding, lots of stories about “that guy”
3 times of being pulled over with said line by Waupaca and Weyewega was enough for me, don’t get highway tickets anymore.
In the same area My mom got pulled over for not slowing down enough (she was under the limit)
while an officer had someone else pulled over and got a repair ticket for her license plate because the number wasn’t in the lower rh corner (pile of years of stickers and my father started placing them in different spots so they would stick)
You don't have regenerative braking, engine stop, a high-efficiency Atkinson-cycle engine, low drag coefficient, not to mention that your engine is old and out-of-tune and you run a very thick HDEO, and yet you get brand-new-Prius-like efficiency. I wonder if your odometer calibration is way off. Also, you need to fill at the same pump every time and same position to get an accurate gallons reading. Over 60 mpg would give you over 800 miles on a tank, and I find that hard to believe. EPA rating is only 29 mpg, whereas like 55 mpg for Prius.
Nope, my odometer usually underestimates my distance about 0.5 miles on a hundred per my gps
I know how to drive a stick, I have 48psi in my 52psi rated energy savers
And my Prius like efficiency is at low speeds, with lots of 99.9mpg coasting.
a Prius would beat me MPG wise going normal speeds with normal driving.
Said car has never shown any change in fuel economy because of oil, my father put synthetic 0w20 in it once because he had too much of it and besides sounding like hammer and rattle time my gas mileage seemed identical
Anyone with a manual can EOC, DWL, or P&G
If you don’t know how to drive efficiently I recommend visiting cleanmpg or ecomodder
The tricks I use pretty much won’t work on an automatic, which is why I no longer own them
(Years ago, I had access to both a 5mt and Auto cobalt, in cold weather on my short work trip I couldn’t break 16mpg on the auto cobalt while my 5mt car would get in the 40’s on the same trip in 20 below, glad that car went away, completely different car stick to auto)
I’m pretty good at hypermiling but not to the level of Wayne Gerdes and anymore don’t have the time or the roads to do it on. Was glad to see my old car could still get good fuel economy with the right conditions, I almost thought it couldn’t do so but nowadays I just basically drive the car.
Driving similarly I have hit a tad over 100mpg when I was driving my old Insight .
Understanding how and when your engine outputs the best economy using a scan gage is important to starting to understand how changes to your tires, pressure, shift points and driving technique can affect your efficiency in a big way.
I almost ended up in a fuel economy competition during engineering college so I’m no stranger to the subject, I was hypermiling before there was such a thing, my father kept a vacuum gage on his Yugo to better MPGs.
Most folks don’t concentrate and pay attention to gages, my same cobalt if I use run flats at the door sticker pressure drops my gas MPGs 10+ without changing anything else. Lots of little things make a big difference, when I was stuck in traffic on the highway I could usually break 50mpg motor off moving 5mph.
Hypermiling works best in extremely boring slow traffic to keep your mind from wandering