Re: [AMC-List] Mobil Oil Economy Run

["John Elle" <johnelle@xxxxxxxxx>]

I once read a driving technique that allowed you to get phenomenal
gasoline mileage for the purpose of winning economy runs that stuck with
me as many times useless trivia does. 
Keep the right foot plastered onto the floor. 
Leave the transmission (3 speed of course) in high. 
Once the car was moving you simply depressed the clutch and turn off the
engine. Allowed it to slow as slow as you can go. At some point in time,
turn on the ignition and pop the clutch and allow it to accelerate to
some value as determined by need and turn off the ignition and depress
the clutch again. 
Of course this would do nothing to make the trip fun, probably really
irk the other drivers on the freeway or side road or whatever and be
really hard on the clutch. But who cares! You got phenomenal fuel
mileage. 
Of course the lack of doing that is probably the reason my Town and
Country gets 14 mpg under certain conditions which is almost as good as
the mileage it gets out of transmissions. 
John. 
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