> I still get 30mph, and RPM around 4500. 30mph? Pretty good for a KIA. I thought you said it would get up to 70... <snickers>
-----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 5:40 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: American automotive (was: Is Exchange Doomed?) I've made several trips in my 2002 Kia between my home near Seattle and destinations in Eastern WA (minimum trip time, 4 hours, maximum 7 hrs) at sustained speeds over 70mph, usually pushing 80. I still get 30mph, and RPM around 4500. I love the little beast, even if acceleration is dismal, and the roofer left a huge dent in the front driver-side quarter panel.. Kurt On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:47, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Ben Scott<mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Amazingly enough, doing 80 MPH in 5th gear > >> yields lower MPG than doing 65 MPH in 5th gear. :-) > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Micheal Espinola > Jr<michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I believe it. I've def. had cars that had lower MPG at 75+. I've > > never seen savings at 55. > > Gah, I'm an idiot. I reversed the intended sense in my statement. > I was trying to be sarcastic with the "Amazingly", and so reinforced > the confusion. > > MPG is better at 65 MPH than 80 MPH. How much, I'm not sure, but I > know I can use less gas if I drive less aggressively. > > I do tend to drive aggressively. I also haven't had the plugs > changed in too long. And I'm an AC junky. So I typically get between > 21 and 25 MPG in my 9-year-old Forrester. On all-highway trips when > it was new, 28 to 30 MPG, easily. > > 80 MPH is pushing the engine a bit, I think. Not "oh my God it's > going to explode", but it's starting to whine a little. I got it up > to just over 90 MPH once, then concern for both road safety and the > engine won over and I backed off. The speedometer goes up to 120 MPH > but I think that's being optimistic. 90 was already getting close to > redline, and the engine sounded like a blender on puree. This is on > the 4-cylinder base engine. They have an H6 on some models that's > considerably beefier, or so I've read. > > It's interesting to hear that some cars get lower MPG at higher > speeds. I wouldn't have expected that. > > -- Ben > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
