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From: coleman@sask.UUCP (Geoff Coleman @ College of Engineering)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,rec.autos
Subject: Re: Re: Economical driving
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Date: Sun, 24-May-87 01:36:07 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 24 01:36:07 1987
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> 
>> It is generally a well known fact that if you drive a car using the 
>> accelerator a bit like an On/Off switch then you are very likely to waste
>> fuel. The most economic driving style is gradual acceleration and 
>> gentle braking.

	A couple of years ago there was an article in a Road and Track
that stated that BMW's engineers in tests had showed that the best mileage
occured when they accelerated cars to speed as fast as possible. It also
showed that shifts at 2000 rpm were better than at 5000. This test
suprised everyone especially the engineers invloved.
	 As well I work for the Engineering College which at present
are the World fuel economy record holders. Talking to the 
different people in the vehicle research group you can get a number 
of different (and contradicting) oppinions about how to increase 
economy on a bought car.

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