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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
By changing some driving habits and keeping your vehicle in top condition, you can increase your fuel mileage.
I own a 95 gas wagon and over my year-and-a-half experience (around 17k miles) during which I consistently tracked and calculated fuel economy at every fill-up (and there are a LOT of ´em in there, believe me), I have never realized less than 9 mpg for a single tank of gas.
Your Palm Powered PDA and the Rand McNally Mileage Calculator deliver half a million mileages between hundreds of cities and attractions.
The strongest selling point to choosing the TDI Beetle over the other trim lines was that the gas mileage was out of this world!
You can´t do much to reduce the cost of each fill-up, but you can learn to drive smarter and be a fuel miser.
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