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With growing fuel prices and global warming, fuel economy improvement and reduced emissions are becoming order of the day. Automobile manufacturers around the world are in increasing pressure to achieve the same, also keeping in account the stiff timelines required in the product developmental cycle. Condensed duty cycle that is representative of several days of actual real life running is developed for quicker fuel economy tuning on a chassis dynamometer. This paper presents a new methodology to obtain a synthetic drive duty cycle, which matches engine operating conditions of the actual real life cycle accurately and thereby providing a more accurate match in fuel economy. Drive duty cycle (vehicle velocity profile) used in this study is extracted from the instrumented vehicle in the real traffic condition (peak/lean hour) of major cities in India at different location/load conditions. Each recorded trip is further divided into micro trips.