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Originally Posted by drdre8424
it depends i guess on why you need to increase your speed...if its to pass someone, especially in a 1-lane hwy, i say coast down to about 55, drop down couple gears and pass the guy in front of you cuz he's making you drive slow
have some fun...unless your driving your car hard all the time, the fuel economy will level out.
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Okay. Anyway, back to the topic at hand.
Vegitto, your reasoning is kind of what I was thinking in the first place. I switched on the instant MPG readout and it seems to agree.
This all came about because I noticed how frequently when in Auto the car will downshift on acceleration when I really didn't need it to (i.e. going from 70-75, basically small increments), like most auto's will do. So I started wondering if when its doing that it also isn't as fuel efficient as staying in that higher gear, given about the same level of acceleration. It didn't seem efficient because it would shift down a gear or two for a couple seconds worth of acceleration and then after a few more seconds shift back up to 7th.