>Did anyone see that article in Road&Track (I think) a couple months ago
>where they theorized that you could get the best mileage by running wide
>open throttle at low revs in high gear? That sounds whack to me (not to
>mention bad for the car), but they swore this was the case. The claimed
>reason was that while friction goes up as engine speeds increase, pumping
>losses are minimized when the throttle is wide open. So you can peel out
>with reckless abandon from every stop light as long as you remember to
>short-shift before 2000rpm. Uh, ok...
Yeah, and they didn't show the scale for either axis on any of the graphs,
which seemed pretty weird?
phil
_________________________________________________________________
|