bikendan wrote:
your thinking is kinda wrong.
it's frontal air resistance that is a mpg killer, not the weight. so the faster you drive, the lower your mpg will be. and your tires may rated for 65 mph, not 72 mph.
and putting a camper shell will make very little difference. almost not enough to even calculate.
and a rounded or v-nose trailer will have very minimal improvement in mpg. only something completely streamlined, like an Airstream, will show a slight improvement in mpg.
I want to apologize I think I just notified the moderator on you accidentally. I'm on phone so everything is smudged close together. Any way to unnotify the moderator? I figured to faster I go the more resistance there is. At the same time like I said it didn't seem to care if it was 65 or 72 on mpg through the hills so figured I might as well make good time and less shifting at that speed it seemed. Itd be a long way out before I could buy an airstream so with the brick we continue.