Re: Plan on driving a new car on a 3000mile highway trip. Bad idea?
Hachiroku ハチ*ク wrote:
> On Sat, 10 May 2008 14:58:03 +0000, Jeff wrote:
>
>>> You will hit speeds and conditions on any car, no matter how it was
>>> broken in due to engine and mechanical efficiencies. On most 4 cylinder
>>> Toyotas I have owned, they seem to hit their stride 70~75 MPH, since I
>>> assume this is the engine's most efficient mode. I have noticed this on
>>> 4 or 5 Toyotas I have owned. Always got the best economy at about 72 MPH
>>> in 5th gear.
>> How do you know that the speeds that the cars were driven at had anything
>> to do with these "strides"? And why would driving a car a particular speed
>> cause this?
>>
>> I think you don't know what you're talking about.
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> The cars I have had new and have broken in myself have not had this
> problem. The couple of cars I bought used that do this have a tendancy to
> 'settle' around 45 and 65 or so. The 7 new cars I broke in didn't do this.
> And two of them were identical models.
>
> And my Supra seems to settle around 60. It's a Canadian car, and whne I
> say 60 I mean 60 KmH.
>
> But, you never think I know what I'm talking about anyway, so I just
> consider the source.
So do I. ;-)
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