PerfectReign wrote:
> 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.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
We don't how he would have done if would have had even worse gas mileage
if he replaced his V6 with a V6.
Jeff
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