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Last edited by Sugarphreak; 08-18-2019 at 04:57 PM.
I'd be curious to know how much the revs matter because you can get very high revs with very low throttle input. It's certainly a factor, but I'd be curious to know how much. On turbo cars especially, you can have high revs with little to no spooling, but as soon as you put a load on the motor or use heavy throttle input, it spools right up along with your fuel consumption.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I think your #2 point is more the case when passing or going up hills, and yeah if you bury your foot and nothing happens (Like my previous Civic haha), all you're doing is wasting lots of fuel. That's where it seems most noticeable anyway.
I feel like most cars around 120-140km/h start to fall off that efficiency cliff, probably mostly due to drag and having to feed it a really noticeable amount of throttle to maintain the speed rather than just barely touching the pedal. The big German sedans don't seem to care though, they aren't even working doing 2,000 RPM at 150km/h and I can't imagine they are that much less efficient there than at 120 Km/h. I remember being on the Autobahn in a BMW 760Li and you feel like you're doing 50km/h at 200 Km/h haha.
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Last edited by Sugarphreak; 08-18-2019 at 04:57 PM.
Also having a drag coefficient and frontal area of a semi-truckThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote