Great gas mileage on my long trip

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Old 10-29-2001, 06:50 PM
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Great gas mileage on my long trip

I averaged over 30MPG on my trip to Florida & back last week.
The cruise control was set between 80-85 for most of the highway portions.

These are the gas stops going down and back on the Interstates.
While in Florida, I only averaged about 20MPG on the tank I used for around town driving.

Here are the numbers for my SIX highway gas stops:
13.05-GAL used over 389-miles = 29.80 MPG
11.78-GAL used over 386-miles = 32.76 MPG
13.60-GAL used over 431-miles = 31.69 MPG
14.79-GAL used over 435-miles = 29.41 MPG
13.40-GAL used over 372-miles = 27.76 MPG
11.68-GAL used over 358-miles = 30.65 MPG

I guess the multiple coats of ZAINO makes my car nice and slippery for less wind resistance.

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Old 10-29-2001, 08:12 PM
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Woah did you set your car on cruise or something? I get tempted too easily when I set it to cruise on 70~75. I just get a urge to go into vtec then it ruins my gas mileage
Old 10-29-2001, 08:14 PM
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Hi Shawn,
Welcome back. Pretty good mileage. Dang that Zaino is some slippery stuff. Probably almost as slick as goose poop!
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