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Originally Posted by arpad_m
Not sure why you guys think going down the highway with a pack of other vehicles in dense traffic would somehow justify keeping the V8 in a low gear, say, to brag about single digit fuel economy.
I wish I lived in an area with no traffic, but that's not the case, so sometimes you just cruise in top gear at 1500 rpm, and that's where these good numbers (25-26 mpg in my case) are coming from. Obviously when I'm driving "properly", mpgs never reach 20, sometimes even 10, but the car is capable of both extremes and anything inbetween.
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100% agree - my regular DD around town driving is in the teens mpg as well but recently went on a ~1,000 mile round trip to/from West Virginia and had plenty of highway miles where traffic was moving ~70-75. For that I just let it cruise in 6th gear ~1500 or so RPM and get similar ~25-28 mpg for those stretches. When in that situation I am happy to use the engines low rpm power to save some gas and gas money for when things open up more!
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