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Originally Posted by NJSPEEDER
Flooring it to get the car up to speed is actually accurate. If you put out max effort for a short distance, it increases the distance they you spend at max efficiency. This is how the colleges do those max mileage engineering challenges every year.
-Tim
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I suppose the reason for slower driving getting better gas mileage could be that once you are up to speed you cannot maintain it because of other traffic and traffic lights. I'll have to give the WOT theory a try when I live somewhere with exponentially less traffic because around here getting up to speed slower gets me better fuel economy.