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Old 02-28-2005, 10:41 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by TriKKy
I am not sure, but I dont think the MPG is instant. It takes an average. Check for youself...floor it when you have 5 miles on the tank and you will see it change a lot. Floor it when you have 300 miles on the tank and it probably wont move.
For the numeric MPG calc, you are exactly right - it's a rolling average. The instantaneous MPG thing I'm talking about is a little graph on the right side of the screen that's labeled from 0 to 30. It's always reading out what your current mpg is "this instant". If you're cruising at 45 mph with a light foot on the gas, it will hover around 20 mpg, under full throttle acceleration, the bottom falls out and it stays around 5 mpg until you get off the loud pedal. When you roll to a stop, it falls all the way to zero.
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