[Vwdiesel] finally made 50 mpg

[travis gottschalk]

I have found the biggest thing to getting better MPG is your foot and your foot alone. Taking any extra weight out helps and reducing any drag also helps but constant speed at a slower speed where the engine/turbo is the most efficient with the least amount of drag possible helps. During Thanksgiving 08 I drove the 750 mile trip home from Sheridan WY to near St. Cloud MN and got there on one tank at 58.5 mpg. I drove with the rpm at 2000 the whole way in 5th gear. Took a long time. But we were going to get home in the middle of the night no matter how fast we drove because we left after work. 

Then there was the time pulling a trailer with my fathers bike (the largest heaviest Harley they make) after his bike wreck in Elko NV back to MN (1500 miles). I was doing 80 the whole way with the AC wide open (he was burning up from 12 broken bones) and my seat heater on high with the wife, dog, and all of our gear and his gear and we got 23 MPG. I didn't know a vw could get so low and it was the same car. I average the lower 40's though (town, interstate, and mountain roads). Not many flate 55 mph roads around here to get better mpg. 
Travis G
 		 	   		  
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