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      05-28-2014, 11:15 AM   #298
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Originally Posted by mkoesel View Post
I strongly suspect that, with this particular car, burning through a tank in high gear at legal and quasi-legal speeds will net you better than the advertised highway number. In any case with the ~16 gallon tank we are talking about a minimum range of 400 miles in this scenario which is already doing much better than the E9x's low 300's that most could achieve as a best case. And it would not surprise me at all to eventually see reports of 450 miles or perhaps even more.
I hope you are right, I really do. 450 miles would be acceptable, 400 is still on the low side given that when I'm taking long trips the only reason I stop is to fill the car's tank not empty mine.
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