Back in the late 70s, early 80s I worked with a guy who bought a Volkswagon Rabbit. He would come in every day and brag about his mileage (30 mpg, according to him). So we decided to have some fun.

Every day someone would go out and add about a 1/2 gallon of gas to his tank. He soon started talking about how he's getting mileage way better than he's supposed to, almost 45 mpg. We let this go on for about a month or so.

We then started going outside at lunch time and syphoning some gas from his tank. What's going on. I'm only getting 15 mpg. He even went back to the dealership, but they could find nothing wrong.

Eventually we felt sorry for him and his mileage went back to normal.

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I still am.

Actually, as much as I'd love to take credit I wasn't the one who orchestrated the whole thing. I was just complicit in my silence. (But boy, was it funny.)

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61.5mpg lifetime - 82mpg in recent months

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"fanatic" is what the lazy call the dedicated

sounds like something I would have done. Very funny stuff.. We had a few rabbit owners when I was in the corp world and all they did was brag...

Not like us hybrid owners.