[s-cars] Interesting state re: fuel consumption

[calvinlc at earthlink.net]

I know all that stuff makes a difference, but it seems to me that a 50%
difference in highway only driving, which eliminates a lot of what you are
talking about, is huge.
--Calvin


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Myers [mailto:bob at chips-ur-s.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 8:56 AM
To: calvinlc at earthlink.net
Cc: J. Khang; s-car-list at audifans.com; Fred Munro
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Interesting state re: fuel consumption



Just how quickly do you get to your cruising speed and how well do
you judge traffic so that brake application is minimized and
acceleration is limited?  Driving techniques can make a
difference.  How much pressure are you running in your tires?  Are
you running wide tires or skinnies?  Are your windows/sun roof open
or closed?  Is your splash guard panel under the engine in place or
not?  What brand of fuel are you running?  Are you a skinny guy or
fat like me?  Did you leave the wife and kids at home?  How do you
lash down your tool kit and box of spare parts in the trunk?  Or do
you leave all that stuff at home?

Bob


At 10:45 AM 5/10/2008, calvinlc at earthlink.net wrote:

>Yeah, but 30mpg?  Holy cow.  The best I have ever seen in a roundtrip is 27
>and that was 2 better than I usually would get when the car is in peak
>tune....I would love to know how we get such wildly varying figures of gas
>mileage...I know the drivers are different but on a highway run, if we are
>all going a similar speed (70-80mph) I would think we would see within 1-2
>mpg of each other, yet there seems to be variances from 20mpg to
>30mpg...that is a HUGE variance.