Re: [T3] Wacky Mileage

[Ben Doughney <ben_d@clear.net.nz>]

<x-flowed>On 20/05/2004, at 2:38 PM, Jim Adney wrote:
> > Last time I worked it out, my Fastback does 29 MPG on a long run. This
> > was a 350 or so mile trip, traveling between 55 - 75 MPH most of the
> > way. The interesting thing to me was I was following my friend in a
> > 1500 Beetle, and I managed to get better milage then him,
>
> If you tended to follow closely, you may have been drafting him.

I was hanging back about 3 car lengths, there were a lot of road works, 
and they don't stick down the metal very well here. As it was one of my 
headlight lenses got a chip and a crack in it.

How close do you have to get to a car to get sucked along by it?

Ben Doughney

'63 1200 - Ringo
'71 1600TL
'65 1500N - Val
'70 411L Variant
'70 NSU Ro80

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