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Old 01-14-2006, 05:23 AM
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Originally Posted by willrev
17MPG stinks if you ask me. I can't see why they don't get more than that - but I guess it was the high speed driving.
I read where wind resistance goes up with the square of the speed. At 140 mph, the wind resistance would be about 5.4 times more than at 60 mph.
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