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Old 07-04-2006, 09:45 PM
birchman2 birchman2 is offline
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Real Name: James
Location: Southern California
Hybrids: 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid
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Default Re: Road Trip Report

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Originally Posted by Casper49
Baskersfiled (up Grapevine at ~70-75MPH) - 40MPG (cumulative)
Magic Mountain to 405 S - ~60 miles - 42 MPG (cumulative)
405S to Buena Park ~60 miles - 43MPG @65MPH

Overall - 43MPG
If it's the mountain I'm thinking it is a monster to get up. Coming down is really fun though very little gas was used. Also from the 405 S to the 101 is actually all downgrade if you experiment you can maintain a very high FE going between 65-71mph.

The car is really weird on the mountains going north on the mountain I babied the car and found if I'm willing to give up speed you can keep the car at 50mpg on the meter.

And with cruise control I agree I tried using it and got a better MPG just driving my style.

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James


Best MPG tank: 57.7 calculated
Best Trip: 73.8mpg displayed(Palmdale"LACR" to LAX)

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