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Originally Posted by Jamesons Viggen
I love the concept of the D's too. But they don't offer them with manuals so they are not on my radar.
When I first got the car I compared the trip computer to my actual calculations and they were quite close.
My 30-32 averages typically show 40-45mph as the average speed.
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That's understandable. I like a good manual transmission too (which is why I'd be very excited at the prospect of a 320d with a stickshift), but I'm still plenty satisfied with the auto in the D. Different strokes, and all that.
Do you use the start-stop function or do you turn it off? Kind of going on a tangent here, but I'm wondering if having the start-stop enabled inflates the average speed the computer reports. That is to say, you could be in stop-n-go traffic, and the computer might show an average speed of 30 or 35 because that's the speed you're going when the car is moving and the engine's on. And in reality, your true average speed might be slower, if the computer isn't accounting for the time that the car spends stopped with the engine off.