Ya either love cars or ya don't and in my life the price of gas bothers me but doesn't stop me from traveling. I look at it this way: What is going to give me more pleasure than driving my vehicles besides sex. I find the optimum RPM for cruising and fuel mileage and build from there and its a simple task which involves a little more than just gear ratios for both transmission, tires and rear end. This is similar to manufacturers and how they determine their optimum which is on the sticker of new vehicles. No vehicle I own is new and I drive a pickup truck most everywhere but mostly on the highways and I am determined to get better gas mileage than what was offered in that year and I do by almost 7 mpg more and will better that with an updated engine with more horsepower.
America's first love was the automobile and still is to persons like us