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Old 02-19-2014, 11:20 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by chrisl View Post
I haven't had that experience with my cars - if anything, my outback in particular seems to really like mountain driving, and I routinely get better gas mileage up in the mountains at high altitude than anywhere else.
I was told years ago, when visiting people in Boulder, that the cars sold there were "tuned" expressly for high altitude. Our "flat-lander" new Datsun (it was a few years ago) was feeble up there.

I always wondered about the cars sold up there. Is there any truth to this, or is it something that is no longer applicable to modern computer controlled cars?

Turbos are good at altitude, of course.
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