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tech3149

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14. You may agree to disagree but I do not

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #10)

Mon Jun 1, 2015, 12:52 PM

Jun 2015

Your reference to 56Mph is not so much related to gearing and efficiency as to aerodynamic load for most conventional designs. While exceeding that balance point might negatively impact performance it is a small percentage of the gains from avoiding a shift to a lower gear ratio to deal with grades that will require downshifts that will severely impact fuel consumption to maintain enough speed to even keep up to the speed limit.
I may be a bit out of the loop because the newest vehicle I own is 1998 vintage and manual everything but I have been in those newer vehicles with all the bells and whistles of monitoring and display of performance.
My driving style even with a less experienced driver could return at least 20% improvement on mileage.

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