<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.
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