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Old 03-30-2007, 11:35 PM   #1
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The government estimated mileages leave no room at all for any agressive driving at all. None. If you don't drive it very gently, you won't get the 39mpg. 36.6 is above average for any kind of mixed driving. If it was 100% highway, well...

three main things I've noticed will drag the Yaris mpg down :
1) Hotdogging. Enjoy it, but you will pay in reduced mpg. You knew it, come on.
2) Cold temperatures drag the mpg down during the cold engine (rich mix) time, drops mpg 1 to 1.5 less.
3) Using the AC drops mpg 1 to 1.5 less. It really is a little engine...
It is true, what hurts most is the size of the engine. it can be economic only when driven smoothly. For some reason I enjoy smaller engines... There are even something like 1.3 and 1.0 Yaris engines. Those don't have that much power, somewhere about 60-70Hp I guess, but then who really needs 100Hp

90% of the time most people will only use 50% of the available engine power
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Old 03-31-2007, 11:30 AM   #2
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90% of the time most people will only use 50% of the available engine power
Yup, and as for the other 10% of the time, they don't really NEED to. I'm getting a kick out of all types of people (especially soccar moms) out-doing themselves in their strained efforts to get ahead of my anemic arse, just gunning the piss out of their Explorers to get in front of me (me not even trying), exhaust fumes sickly spewing out their tailpipes enough to choke the life out of any small animal nearby, then slowing down, thinking they have won some kind of fight or something, only to watch me coast on by them, later on down the road... Petty, shallow, insignificant fools that they are...
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