SUNRG
Top Post Dawg
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2003
- Location
- Roanoke, VA
- TDI
- None currently. Previously owned 04 Golf TDI & 05 Passat GLS Wagon TDI
10-2-04 UPDATE: Revised MPG Competition Guidelines
It's easy and fun to participate! All you have to do is:
1 - drive at least 1000 miles during the month and have some way of reporting your MPGs with reasonable accuracy.
2 - remember to absolutely never compromise safety in pursuit of MPG Competition glory.
I will post standings updates every Monday. You do not have to fill up every week [unless you want to have new data included in every standings update] you just need to have filled up at least once and driven at least 1000 miles during the month. If you have a reasonably accurate MFA, you do not even need to have one fill up! Just send in a post with the MFA computed MPGs. (incredibly, Rammstein and possibly others can drive for an entire month, more than 1200 miles, and still not need to fill up
Below is an example of how monthly MPGs should be calculated, using AudiLikeA4's Oct04 numbers:
[Driver]AudiLikeA4 [Car]04 Golf 5m [Fuel]D2
10/5 721.0m/16.1g=44.8mpg
10/10 742.4m/16.1g=46.1mpg
Oct.Total 1463.4m/32.2g=45.4mpg
At the end of every month we'll crown numerous champions.
Overall (of course this is the most coveted title), A3/B4, A4, A4PD, B5, even Touareg (and titles for any other models I've missed).
Two MPG award categories that absolutely everyone has a shot at are PR [Personal Record] awards: a "Road Trip PR" and a "Standard Driving PR".
Road Trips are often nearly all highway miles and MPG numbers (for some) are much better than their Standard Driving. Standard Driving is just your normal commuting and recreational driving. If you set your own Personal MPG Record [Road Trip and/or Standard Driving] please post and I'll record the PR you achieved in the standings.
It's going to be fun pitting all styles, years and engines against one another for the monthly overall, as well as trying to set and break Personal MPG Records!
It'd be cool if someone could make up a simple image that said something like:
TDICLUB MPG Competition
OVERALL CHAMPION
October 2004
If they want to, the winners can make their award image their avatar or signature. Eventually someone could be the "5 time champion" for example, and at the end of each year we could take an average of all the months and crown annual MPG champions!
Since we all have different daily drives and route topographies, there will probably be large variations between TDIs of even the same year/model, so while the end of month results will undoubtably be interesting, they are far from scientifically achieved.
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