maps.google.com

[jdbubb at verizon.net (Dan Bubb)]

To hell with that!!!
If this damn car runs at all I'll have to get into it some so I can develop 
a decent fuel map by the time I get there.
I would not want to catch the shit that Josh Able caught about his car 
puking black smoke on the boost!!
So, yeah. I'll be on it some (but discretely!!)
Dan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GGehrke" <ggehrke@gmail.com>
To: "Scirocco list" <Scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: maps.google.com


> So, if your looking at your planned route and thinking it will take a
> long time, do the math considering what YOUR speed will be and it
> shouldn't be as long as you might think.

Though if you are a bit more patient, it may be worth point out that
on such a long road trip (for many of us) you can get a lot better gas
mileage by driving a bit more slowly.  I just got done with a 600 mile
drive and I held 65 almost the entire way for the sake of fuel
economy.  There were stretches going down mountains where I would put
the car into neutral and coast for 3-4 miles.  I also made sure to go
WOT as rarely as possible and avoid quick throttle changes in general.
 By simply paying attention to gas mileage I got phenomenol range ($45
of gas from Washington, DC to Louisville, KY) and could have done it
even cheaper if I hadn't gotten antsy about 6 hours into it and drove
harder for the last few hours.
If only my odometer worked I'd come up with some real stats.  I should
go fix that...

-Grant-

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