For all the yacking about fuel mileage...

Started by VTEC_Inside, December 14, 2009, 09:29:46 AM

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Rupert

#30
December 18, 2009, 08:31:06 PM
Quote from: NACar on December 18, 2009, 03:34:12 PM
Wow. That's even worse than the Rodeo. :lol:

Right about Explorer territory, in fact.
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dazzleman

#31
December 19, 2009, 04:18:21 AM
Charlie, I think your car is similar to mine.  I get very good highway mileage.  If I can keep myself from going too fast on the highway (and unlikely proposition)an I can get around 33 mpg.  Even driving fast, I can get around 28 or 29 mpg on the highway.  But in the city, I'm stuck in the 15-20 mpg range.  Your car is worse because the AWD saps gas mileage.
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dazzleman

#32
December 19, 2009, 04:46:41 AM
Teuton, what makes your brother think you drive like a maniac?  Is he a nervous nellie type?  I have the impression that you drive pretty conservatively because you fear getting pulled over.  If your brother's right, good for you, man...:ohyeah:
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Eye of the Tiger

#33
December 19, 2009, 05:29:17 AM
Quote from: Psilos on December 18, 2009, 08:31:06 PM
Right about Explorer territory, in fact.

If you're going to use all of that gas, you might as well hear it going to waste. FLOWMASTER!
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the Teuton

#34
December 19, 2009, 04:09:44 PM
Quote from: dazzleman on December 19, 2009, 04:46:41 AM
Teuton, what makes your brother think you drive like a maniac?  Is he a nervous nellie type?  I have the impression that you drive pretty conservatively because you fear getting pulled over.  If your brother's right, good for you, man...:ohyeah:

I just have a tendency to tailgate, right lane pass if people don't know how to use the left lane, and otherwise drive as if I owned a BMW.

I don't much care for the way he drives, either. It bugs the bajeezus out of me.
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dazzleman

#35
December 19, 2009, 04:16:39 PM
Quote from: the Teuton on December 19, 2009, 04:09:44 PM
I just have a tendency to tailgate, right lane pass if people don't know how to use the left lane, and otherwise drive as if I owned a BMW.

I don't much care for the way he drives, either. It bugs the bajeezus out of me.

How does your brother drive?

I have one brother whose driving makes me crazy.  He goes very fast, but he also weaves in and out of traffic, tailgates, does other things while driving, etc.  I also like to drive fast, as conditions allow, but I prefer to concentrate on my driving and I don't like all that weaving and tailgating.  I'm a much more relaxed driver than he is and it appears that I speed for a different reason than he does.  One time he was driving with my mom, and she forced him to stop the car and she took the wheel.  I don't let him drive my car, and I prefer to avoid riding with him.
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SVT_Power

#36
December 20, 2009, 07:46:07 PM
Quote from: the Teuton on December 19, 2009, 04:09:44 PM
I just have a tendency to tailgate, right lane pass if people don't know how to use the left lane, and otherwise drive as if I owned a BMW.

I don't much care for the way he drives, either. It bugs the bajeezus out of me.

I don't really tailgate people, but I just get close enough for people to realize and get out of the way. Well my definition of tailgaiting is within 2 car lengths, so I stay at least that far back but maybe that is tailgating.

I hate right lane passing. For fuck's sake why do I have to run the chance of plowing into the back of a slower moving car I might not be able to see in the right lane because the idiot in front of me won't get out of the way? I'll flash and tailgate the guy in front of me rather than use the right lane. Unless I know for sure that there's basically no traffic and I know there's nobody in the right lane.
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#37
December 20, 2009, 09:58:03 PM
That's usually the case here in California--the right lane is usually open for passing the whole line of left lane campers.
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#38
December 22, 2009, 01:48:58 PM
Quote from: dazzleman on December 19, 2009, 04:18:21 AM
Charlie, I think your car is similar to mine.  I get very good highway mileage.  If I can keep myself from going too fast on the highway (and unlikely proposition)an I can get around 33 mpg.  Even driving fast, I can get around 28 or 29 mpg on the highway.  But in the city, I'm stuck in the 15-20 mpg range.  Your car is worse because the AWD saps gas mileage.

Yup, it's pretty unimpressive, really. Some SUV's get better mileage than I do around town, and that is ridiculous.

Quote from: SVT_Power on December 20, 2009, 07:46:07 PM
I don't really tailgate people, but I just get close enough for people to realize and get out of the way. Well my definition of tailgaiting is within 2 car lengths, so I stay at least that far back but maybe that is tailgating.

I hate right lane passing. For fuck's sake why do I have to run the chance of plowing into the back of a slower moving car I might not be able to see in the right lane because the idiot in front of me won't get out of the way? I'll flash and tailgate the guy in front of me rather than use the right lane. Unless I know for sure that there's basically no traffic and I know there's nobody in the right lane.

I've completely stopped caring about passing on the right. If I can pass somewhere, I'll do it. I think it does throw off the slow moving southerners sometimes, but for some reason they all understand that it's appropriate to make sure you're not holding someone up behind you and merge right fairly quickly if I get behind them, so down there I don't pass on the right nearly as often. 
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