Do we do it in an HCH with CVT or MT? My vote is MT, but I may be biased since that is what I choose to drive. We also need to decide what the course characteristics should be. Length to turn-around, number of stop lights, terrain, etc. Flat is good, but too flat may be bad. Pulse up a slight grade is not too bad, but gliding down a slight grade is much better than on the flat.

We should also borrow the Super MID from Dan Kroushl in Pittsburgh if it can work in an HCH. It would be good to help us track our progress with more precision, but then again, the HCH instrumentation is better for this than the Prius instrumentation for a number of reasons.

Also, if this is going to happen, somebody needs to host it and find the right stretch of road near their home. It worked out very well that there was a hotel (nothing to right home about, but adequate) on the course that we used as our base of operations and for changing drivers. I know of a great stretch of road near my house, relatively flat (yes, some hills, but nothing worse than the hills the Prius marathon ran on, and fewer of them), 4 lanes and no traffic lights for a 15 mile stretch, relatively light traffic and a 55 mph speed limit the whole way, a Walmart/Sheetz at one end and a Food Lion shopping center at the other end, but no hotel. There are some hotels/motels about 4 miles from the Walmart/Sheetz end, and my house is about 5 miles from the Food Lion end, so we could make do here.

Maybe I will take a test run and see what the HCH can really do here when pushed. I think I have never run it right after fillup to see how absolutely high my mpgs could be on this stretch.

Are you guys game to come to Fredericksburg, Virginia?