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·I have just filled up after my first 50 m.p.g. tank this year. Summer gasoline, with its higher energy density, is back, the air is warming and there is less rain (and no snow) to hold the car back. It's good to put the 44 m.p.g. tanks of winter behind for a while!
This tank was dominated by my commute, which is 13 miles and 25 to 30 minutes each way. It is partly on two-lane roads through residential areas with 30 or 35 m.p.h. limits and partly in "Route 1" conditions, that is four lanes and 45 to 55 m.p.h. limits but with frequent lights, turnoffs and other reasons to slow down. So, it is neither "city" nor "highway". There are plenty of ups and downs, almost nothing flat. In my Mazda 626, I would get 32 m.p.g. in the same circumstances.
By the way, my mileage figures are always corrected for the optimism of the Consumption Display. By tracking the gas I put in I have figured that mine is about 4.5% off. The display reading for this tank was 52.5 m.p.g.
For the next tank, I'm going to try to avoid "Consumption Display Obsession" by switching the screen onto something else. If I keep track in my head of general conditions and any abnormal journeys, I might be able to guess what affect CDO is having on my economy.
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This tank was dominated by my commute, which is 13 miles and 25 to 30 minutes each way. It is partly on two-lane roads through residential areas with 30 or 35 m.p.h. limits and partly in "Route 1" conditions, that is four lanes and 45 to 55 m.p.h. limits but with frequent lights, turnoffs and other reasons to slow down. So, it is neither "city" nor "highway". There are plenty of ups and downs, almost nothing flat. In my Mazda 626, I would get 32 m.p.g. in the same circumstances.
By the way, my mileage figures are always corrected for the optimism of the Consumption Display. By tracking the gas I put in I have figured that mine is about 4.5% off. The display reading for this tank was 52.5 m.p.g.
For the next tank, I'm going to try to avoid "Consumption Display Obsession" by switching the screen onto something else. If I keep track in my head of general conditions and any abnormal journeys, I might be able to guess what affect CDO is having on my economy.
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. However, isn't it a little less reliable to do manual mpg measurements because of the 'plastic bubble' in our tanks that depending on the temperature it is outside when you fill it up at can hold more or less gas?
