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enough talking lol; i actually went out and did an experiment yesterday.
I did three types of highway cruising; Each test was along a flat section of the highway. I did the experiments consistently across roughly a 30 km (18.6 miles for you americans) stretch each (i was driving from niagara falls to toronto and was bored). All windows were open, Air conditioner was off; and stereo was off. After the results of each test, id reset the mpg counter and restart the next one.
The tests:
1. in 6th gear; accelerating to 120kmph (74.56 MPH), lifting foot off pedal and letting car slow to 90kmph(55.92 MPH) without touching clutch or gear shifter. Average speed was ~105kmph (65.24 MPH).
2. Cruise control on 6th gear set at 105KMPH (65.24MPH).
3. Accelerating in 6th gear to 120kmph (75 MPH), putting it in neutral, coasting down to 90 (56MPH) ; then rev matching and accelerating back up to 120kmph (75 MPH).
The results:
1. Coasting in gear: 32.7 mpg
2. Cruise control: 33.1 mpg
3. Coasting in neutral: 38.6 mpg
After deciding coasting in neutral was the most efficient, i drove the remaining part of my trip like so. I turned on AC for the last bit noticed my idle rpm when coasting in neutral went from about 800rpm to 1.1k rpm. This dropped my coasting in neutral mpg from 38.6 to 37.8
Those are the results guys.
p.s ive already started heel toeing two weeks into learning manual (^^,)
EDIT:
regarding thunderchicken's post.
Sure you get 5 seconds of no fuel, while we get 10 secs of rich idling, but at the end of the day; you have to get on the accelerator pedal twice as many times as we do.
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