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From: halle1@houxz.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: 55 Saves Gas?
Message-ID: <872@houxz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Jun-84 11:11:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 26 11:11:27 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Jun-84 03:17:57 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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To those of you who dispute the savings at 55 by claiming your car does
better at 65 (or 75 or 105), you are looking at the problem wrong.
Your car probably does do better at 65 since it was designed to have its
peak efficiency there.  But suppose you took the same car and changed a few
internal things, such as gear ratios, axle, and whatever else is necessary
(I'm not a mechanic), such as would be done on the production line, you could
make the car most efficient at 55 with no significant effect on performance
(below 55) other than mileage.  The mileage you will get at peak efficiency
of 55 is virtually certain to be better than you got at 65 when that was the
most efficient point.