equiraptor
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- Houston, Texas, USA
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The last time I compared by gender lines, I found the opposite. In the same car, in the same conditions, my mother got 18.8mpg, I got 16.6mpg, and my father got 14.4.Have you noticed that women tend to get less MPG? My mum is always asking me how to get better fuel economy, because she only manages 21mpg from the C300. When I drive it, I get 24mpg. On the same route. The main problem, she stays on the throttle constantly, rather than setting a speed and maintaining it.
My mother drives reasonably - defensively, not aggressively, but not really timidly either (did back then, too). At the time, I drove quite aggressively, but thinking ahead quite a bit. My father drove very aggressively, didn't think as far ahead as I did, and treated pedals like binary toggles rather than the gradual tools they are. Oh, Dad would also use the AC more than Mom and I did.
This is ignoring mileage on track, where I seem to be great at setting low miles-per-gallon records.
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