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Originally Posted by Climber76
The other thing that kills fuel economy with automatics is the compensated idle: fuel flow at idle is boosted slightly to compensate for the load from the torque converter. So manuals burn a bit less sitting at a stop light. All this little stuff adds up.
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Point taken, and to address that issue, simply place the auto trans in neutral at each stop.
In my mind, though, if I had wanted to be a hyper-miler and sweat every tenth of a mpg, I would not have bought a Tacoma.