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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Maintenance and Repair / September 2005

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HLS@nospam.nix - 27 Sep 2005 14:13 GMT
http://cnn.edmunds.com/ownership/driving/articles/106842/article.html

Worth a read...
Don Stauffer - 27 Sep 2005 15:01 GMT
> http://cnn.edmunds.com/ownership/driving/articles/106842/article.html
>
> Worth a read...

Unfortunately, they combined too much in the featherfoot vs leadfoot
test.  Playing the lights- less braking- is a very good way to save gas.

Mashing the pedal vs feather touch leaves a lot in the middle.  Full
throttle vs barely cracking it is not proper test- one needs
intermediate values.  Optimum throttle for acceleration is somewhere in
middle- not at either end of scale.
Ed White - 27 Sep 2005 15:27 GMT
Interesting, but I don't think they can achieve the sort of accurracy
with the Mustang (using 1 fill-up) or the Land Rover (computer readout)
to say that the small improvements (less than 5%) are statisticaly
valid. Of the the two results, I believe the Land Rover results are
more credible, but not perfect when trying to detect small improvements
(less than 5%).

I also thought the comment about the tire inflation pressures for the
Mustang was ridiculous.
 
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