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Droid13 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-08-2007, 05:52 PM

It amazes me sometimes how, out of the blue, I'll have a drive where the FE is excellent compared with my usual "pretty good". Today I had a phenomenal one, far surpassing anything I've ever experienced before. 210 km (130 miles) of rural and hiway driving after filling up yielded a computer display tank ave of 5.1L/100km (46mpg) with 2 adults, 2 kids, and a trunk stuffed full of golf clubs and luggage.

I've done this drive many times before and usually I get my "typical" highway numbers (around 6.2 or 38mpg if I'm lucky). In fact, I usually get better numbers on the "leaving home" trip, and this one was actually a "coming back home" trip which usually isn't as good. I guess it was a perfect combination of weather conditions and a busy but steady highway which kept the speeds down below the speed limit. The trip started with 30km of rural driving and I was dumbfounded to see the tank ave drop to 4.8L/100km. Something I had never seen before except a minute or two after leaving a gass station in EV. Once I got on the highway it started to climb and I figure back to normal, but as it hit 5.3 I ran into heavy traffic which slowed me down for most of the remaining trip, but also slowly brought the tank ave to 5.1. Took me 15 months to see this...