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Originally posted by Majisto:
Prove it then. If you don't want to take the challenge than that's fine, but you better not make up anymore lies.
OK? Come on down or over. 
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So you're telling me that wind resistance is exactly equal at 80 versus 60 MPH? I don't know what physics you studied, but it wasn't what I took. It's true that cars today cruise more comfortably at higher speeds, but wind is still there, and gearing still plays a vital role in mileage. For the Contuor at least, the biggest problem is getting going. 1st gear is so short. This car needs a CVT or an additional ratio between 1st and 2nd badly.
The Explorer has a 5-speed auto (OD clutch band is applied to 1st giving a 2nd speed between 1 and 2) and it is amazing how much smoother it is. Mileage is usually 20/25 for me. Not too bad. There's a member on Explorer 4X4 who gets 30 with the same vehicle because he uses all synthetic fluids with an electric fan and always tracks his speed and keeps it around 75 or slightly below on the interstate. His son took the same vehicle and went 80-82 and dropped the mileage by over 3. Speed kills.
I've been in F-bodies that can get 30 MPG on the highway. It's amazing how tall that T-56's 6-speed is, but speed is still the factor in every circumstance.
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55mph is optimal for gas mileage.
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Originally posted by Majisto:
So you're telling me that wind resistance is exactly equal at 80 versus 60 MPH? I don't know what physics you studied, but it wasn't what I took.
Didn't say that buddy. There is a lot more to gas mileage than wind resistance. Gearing and a lotta other things come into play. I don't understand it all, nor do I care to. I also don't care if you believe me or whatnot. But you're welcome to come find out if you're so inclined to. You can even sleep on my dorm room couch.
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96 ATX Zetec (i brake to watch you swerve)
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Originally posted by Corbett:
55mph is optimal for gas mileage.
Not for all cars. It is very complicated, and depends on many factors. That is a good rough estimate, but could be way off, especially for modified cars.
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Majisto do whatever you want, just stay out of the left lane. 
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I will continue to go 62 on the 65 MPH speed limit highway, because we all stop at the same red light anyway. Everytime I see someone pass me at 5-10 or more MPH over the speed limit, I just laugh
And I just laugh whenever someone else uses that old tired line "Why speed if you're just gonna hurry up and wait at the same light I am?"
Well, yes, that's a possibility. It's also just as likely that the person speeding will make it through the light and you won't, putting him even further ahead. But he might get caught at the next one, and you won't. Or his speed might make him get through all of them and you'll stop at every one of them.
It's not a reason to speed. But "because we're all gonna get caught at the same light" isn't either.
As for Kremit's mileage, I will say this -- In the entire time I owned my '97 Contour (ATX Zetec just like Kremit's) I got my best mileage driving in excess of 80mph. Time in and time out I could reproduce it. The best tank I ever had was just over 493 miles on a tank (and it wasn't quite dry, I fit just over 14 gallons in it), driving through empty South Texas with the AirCon on and going between 80 and 95mph the entire tank. Why, I haven't the foggiest idea. I've made the same run in the same weather at closer to 70 (Spring Break so lots of cops) and didn't get anywhere close to that, more ike 29mpg. But on several trips I got well over 33mpg, and of course that one record tank. The weather is almost always the same in South Texas and I always get my gas at the same stations.
It doesn't exactly make any sense, but it's the way it worked out. Multiple times, so it wasn't some fluke.
I have noticed a very similar, but not so extreme, trend in my Mazda6s. When driving South, I will often drive only about 70mph (usually have someone in the car, so I don't drive so fast) and get abour 25mpg. When driving West out to New Mexico on business, I drive much faster as I'm alone and there's few cops (few anything really), usually around 80-85, and get about 28mpg. Done those trips many times, and the results are very consistent.
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Same thing has happened with other zetecers as well, I believe there was a thread about it a year or two ago.
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Good. I would love it if they did that here.
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I like the highway speed limits here... 75 on the interstates, 70 on the 2 lane highways.
Still wish they had the old "reasonable" limit on the interstates...
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