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Well I reset the counter before cruising to work today. Its about 12 miles highway and 4 or 5 miles of stop and go. Usually I push it to the limit on the highway, my speed limiter (set at 90) usually dings at least 3 or 4 times. As NoSole said, resisting darting in and out of traffic when there are plenty of gaps and I'm familiar with cop locations is difficult. Its equally tough to resist flooring it on the on-ramp (and the off ramp which is one of those 2 lane, 360 degree ones - a natural skidpad).
So, I mostly resisted today. I still dropped it into DS on the on-ramp, (I wasn't going to let a Boxter with his spoiler set to raise at 15 mph get ahead of me) and I still cruised around 80-90 most of the way, with 1 or 2 bursts to pass but that got 25 mpg. I'm happy to see that these high 20s mpg aren't impossible with a little restraint.
I guess that video on BimmerFile comparing the Prius and M3 is right, its how you drive that really matters. Thanks for all the input guys.
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