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This website, jointly maintained by the US Department of Energy and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), provides information such as official EPA “window label” fueleconomy estimates for city, highway, and combined driving for all U.S.-legal drop in fueleconomy due to traveling 80 mph rather than 70 mph.
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liter direct-injected four-cylinder engine mated to Hyundai’s first dual-clutch transmission and is estimated to deliver up to 40 mpg highway. D-CVVT (intake and exhaust camshaft phaser) camshafts and hydraulic engine mounts provide optimum power, efficiency and refinement. The 2012 Veloster features a new 1.6-liter liter engine.
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liter V-8 Mustang GT deliver projected fueleconomy of up to 25 mpg US on the highway cycle—better than the pervious model—despite its performance. Ti-VCT provides extremely precise variable—yet independent—control of timing for intake and exhaust valves. This is up from 23 mpg US highway and 17 city for the 2010 model.
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