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Originally Posted by dssence
Hi well like the post says.. I own a toyota 86 FT manual, and I'd like to know what 's the best way to shift gears and have a nice fuel economy rate about 25mpg like most ppl state.
I don't know if my driving habits are bad or whats up , but I've taken my car from the dealer with the tank filled up have done like 89km and have half a tank left.
So maybe I'm shifting gears badly at bad rpms. A friend of mine told me to keep rpms below 3000rpm not to consume excesive fuel.
but what would be the best manual shifting practice. Start car 1st gear, then 2nd gear those gears are the most fuel demanding ones.. then 3rd .. move to 4th .. Then should I stay driving the car in 5th and 6th gear?
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I drive 40 minutes to and from work 5 days a week, and drive around weekends to play. I get stuck in ~30 min of traffic each day, and I average 30mpg per tank.
Here are things I do that I've picked up from hypermiling.
1) Don't jackrabbit the gas pedal.
2) try to stay out of neutral- coast in gear.
3) I change gears between 3k-3.5k
4) I keep 2 car distance between me and cars in front of me, because I'm scared of rockchips. If you are not, feel free to draft behind trucks (you get a mpg boost from as far as 100 feet gap if I remember correctly)
5) have a steady foot- accelerating uses more gas than staying constant speed