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Originally Posted by Frodo
...The sum of these advantages is what's responsible for the 57% boost in the city cycle of the TCH vs the "regular" 4 cylinder Camry. Given consistent driving styles (e.g. "hypermiling"), the advantage would hold up. For all its criticism and the 'lack of correspondence to reality', the EPA cycle does give decent relative ratios that do hold up. Now, some drivetrains may be more optimized to the test cycles than others, and might 'break' the ratios, but that's another day's discussion.  |
It holds up. I ran the numbers from my earlier post and got 46% over the 4 cylinder Camry. The difference between the 46 and 57 can easily be rationalized by the rural highway content where the "city" advantage is lost.