I just want to chime in with my two cents....I'm having a hard time buying the claim (not yours but generally speaking) understanding traction control as I do. Engineers discovered years ago that they could take advantage of the ABS system already implemented on cars to provide something they now call "Traction Control" or "Stability Control" or whatever buzz word they choose. As I understand it, traction control simply sits in idle mode until one of the tires starts to spin, independantly of the others. The sensors that are already in place for the ABS now do double duty, sensing the tire now spinning. A signal is sent to the ECM which in turn sends a message to the ABS system to start applying the brakes to the same tire in question, hence the stopping of spin. To suggest that gas consumption is saved by turning this feature off just doesn't make sense to me. Maybe someone who better understands ABS / Traction Control systems could chime in with their thoughts...