btw, i know this should belong into the fuel economy thread, but how much does petrol cost where you live right now? We've hit 1.70/l yesterday. At that point, I've decided that it's better to use my bike for everything I have to do in a radius of 10 km. So damn annoying -.-*
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Dream ride: red 1971 Opel Commodore GS/E
1,54€/l for 98. Spent 93€ for a full tank on friday.
I'm even considering selling the muscle car for a small diesel hatch.
That's how bad it is. Pieter will be pleased I guess.
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Yes but those are the official manufacturer figures. In real usage they can vary quite a lot.
For instance, even if my Audi has an official worse fuel consumption figure than our Hyundai, with my usage (which is about 70% motorway at 160-170km/h cruising speed, 25% normal roads and 5% city driving) the Audi nets (slitghly) better figures than the Hyundai.
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I'm going to have to agree with you there. I tested out my '93 bmw 525i which was rated at 26mpg hw
noted: Fuel Economy of the 1993 BMW 525i
I reset my mpg readout on the car and drove an hour up and down hils with windy roads, through small towns and on county highways and AVERAGED 32.7 mpg. This was with about 10G of petrol in the car. So it can be done. However that was driving the speedlimit and not putting my foot down. My normal average driving MPG for that car was around 22 and that was with driving mostly around town.
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