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- From: jdrout@scott.skidmore.edu (JTD is lost)
- Subject: Gas Mileage and Headlights
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.072901.6084@scott.skidmore.edu>
- Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:29:01 GMT
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- In my MR (85, 5spd, no wing) I get better mileage with the lights
- down. My comparison data is:
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- Drive to New jersey from Saratoga Springs
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- Night - 27-30 mpg
- Dusk - 30+
- Day - 30-38
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- I got 45 driving up here once, but that was tailing a Ford Explorer
- the whole way. I am sure that I was drafting enough that that
- explains the awesome mileage. Driving @ night definately cuts the
- mileage down. I have done this over a course of 2 years driving here
- and back, so its not just one or two trips to average from.
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- Jonathan
- jdrout@scott.skidmore.edu
- 4A-GE w/107300mi @ 7krpm in the snow = fishtail!
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