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Originally Posted by zimbop
Well I think it's only fair to compare mileage if you're comparing similar driving styles. If you're doing hypermileage techniques to get 263% better than standard driving techniques in an escape then it's not a fair comparison because if you drove a standard escape with hypermileage techniques appropriate to that vehicle you'd also see a significant improvement. Perhaps not as dramatic, but the point is that you can improve mileage in any car with driving technique, regardless of whether you put hybrid technology in it.
I calculated my 20% figure by driving a regular civic 1500 miles and did the same over the same route in a HCH with the same driving style and there was a 20% difference. That's the only fair way to make a comparison IMHO.
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While you don't know me, if you did, you'd know if that was a factor, I would've mentioned it. If I drive like the car is fueled by my own blood, and another drives it like it runs on tap water, I certainly would've mentioned it.
My friend, whose Escape I'm comparing it to in this case, has a V8 2004 model, and after I teased him for a few weeks about how great my MPGs were, he adopted several of the good habits, not driving over 70, coasting as much as possible, etc. (Though I thought he'd punch me out instead.
) We share 75% or so of the commute, and he was still getting 14 MPGs to my (at that point) 32 MPG.
He gave up the habits and is back to getting 12 MPGs, feeling that driving like a granny is not worth the 2 MPG difference.