Thread: FR-S/BRZ MPG
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Old 02-02-2012, 08:38 PM   #105
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Er, where are you getting .2 from?
The ratios are apart by 10%. As I said before, this can easily be over 5% difference in fuel consumption on the highway.
People are used to cars with excessively short cruising gears, so they don't realize just how much more mpg they can pick up. Like I said any small passenger car can cruise at 45-50mpg with the correct gear ratios, as opposed to 35mpg. This is a massive difference. Now of course they know people are too lazy to downshift so they will make the gears a bit shorter but even so, most cars are cruising at around 60-70% peak efficiency or less.
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