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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

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6. Yep. Strong reason for a clash box. There used to be a big MPG diff,

Tue May 6, 2014, 10:44 PM

May 2014

but that is fading away. With Constant Velocity Transmissions, milege may be better.

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How to survive when your car stalls... [View all] Eleanors38 Apr 2014 OP

Once you know what happens, you can get out of harm's way Eleanors38 Apr 2014 #4

I had a car stall on me once Curmudgeoness Apr 2014 #2

On older cars, excessive coasting using automatic transmission. Eleanors38 Apr 2014 #3

and then people wonder why I like manual gejohnston May 2014 #5

Yep. Strong reason for a clash box. There used to be a big MPG diff, Eleanors38 May 2014 #6

but my Cruze has electric power steering and brakes happyslug Sep 2014 #7