Steve turned on the Etch-A-Sketch and wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
>
>>
>> Yet, in the same model year, the less powerful engine almost always
gets
>> better fuel economy.
>
> Saying it over and over doesn't make it true. Go spend a few weeks
> researching magazine road tests (don't just use EPA figures, they're
> flawed badly). In real world driving, engine in today's cars makes
> *very* little difference unless the driver is a consistent lead-foot.
> There are even quite a few cases where moving up to the next engine size
> will yield better mileage because acceptable performance can be achieved
> with a lower (numerical) rear-end ratio, plus the bigger engines often
> get an extra gear in the transmission too .
I have a great example.
A former manager of mine lives in Hesperia and works in San Bernardino.
On his daily roundtrip - about thirty miles and 4000 ft elevation change -
he figured he'd do better buying an I4 than a V6.
Well, because of the flat torque of the I4, he ended up with worse gas
mileage over the first year in his new I4 than he had in his old V6.
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