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OK, we're back online! Here's the latest in the MDX mileage saga - some data from folks who have been waiting patiently (or gave up and forgot about this) as well as some new data from this week.
First interesting point - I think we've pushed the limit on how fast you can to improve your mileage (there have been a number of posts on the empirical limits due to wind resistance, I think we've found it...). A lot of this data is from the leadfoot crowd - Roadrunner cruising around the high plains, my tour through the midwest, and DMor (or Queen Leadfoot, as she will be known in the annals of MDX.org
)clocking an average speed of 68.7! (Wow, what's it like when she's going fast??).
Remery, having midwestern sensibilities, has a nice tight set of points in the high 20's - low 30's. Or maybe its the effect of the dog he hauls around, I don't know
.
Anyway, for your amazement and amusement, here's the results of about 70 tanks of gas being run through various MDX's around the country. As others have mentioned, average speed is one of umpteen things that affect mpg, but probably one of the most important. A lot of folks have reported octane along with these numbers, I'll be mucking around - I mean analyzing - those data one of these days. In the meantime, as long as y'all send in numbers, I'll put 'em up!
BTW this is a continuation of a previous thread - the data from the older thread has been lumped into the group called "Oldies" (sorry bout that, ran out of creativity
), those are shown in gray.
First interesting point - I think we've pushed the limit on how fast you can to improve your mileage (there have been a number of posts on the empirical limits due to wind resistance, I think we've found it...). A lot of this data is from the leadfoot crowd - Roadrunner cruising around the high plains, my tour through the midwest, and DMor (or Queen Leadfoot, as she will be known in the annals of MDX.org
Remery, having midwestern sensibilities, has a nice tight set of points in the high 20's - low 30's. Or maybe its the effect of the dog he hauls around, I don't know
Anyway, for your amazement and amusement, here's the results of about 70 tanks of gas being run through various MDX's around the country. As others have mentioned, average speed is one of umpteen things that affect mpg, but probably one of the most important. A lot of folks have reported octane along with these numbers, I'll be mucking around - I mean analyzing - those data one of these days. In the meantime, as long as y'all send in numbers, I'll put 'em up!
BTW this is a continuation of a previous thread - the data from the older thread has been lumped into the group called "Oldies" (sorry bout that, ran out of creativity
