sonza68
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Anymore, I think it's notable if a car has major problems before 100k miles.
So I'll just park the car but keep the engine running when I'm at a rest stop, correct?
(...) I go reasonably quick (German resonableness that is...) and stop without any chance for it to cool off at slower speeds.
Just use the car as you would.
What's so special about towns and villages?
Agreed. A 700 mile drive isn't particularly taxing for a modern car. I do 3-400 mile days pretty regularly and have gone up to 1000 miles in a day. The only thing I'll do different on the long drives is to check the fluids before I leave.
So I'll just park the car but keep the engine running when I'm at a rest stop, correct?
Let me add that the otto cycle internal combustion engine is most happy and efficient when it is running at a constant revolution, be it 1000, 3000 or 5000 rpms.
What is inefficient is driving at 85 mph when you could be getting far better gas mileage driving lets say 78 mph (just throwing a number out). I figured out that my engine in particular is most efficient at 2800 rpms, or roughly 76 mph.
I do 3-400 mile days pretty regularly and have gone up to 1000 miles in a day.
I just did a 400 or so mile round trip doing around 85 pretty much the whole way in my Fairlane.
And I occasionally do brake on the interstate (from 85MPH to 60MPH and back to 85)
Would this be the same as stop/go or not because I don't fully stop?
That's no problem, since you don't really use the brakes heavily changing from 85 to 60 mph.