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Stu
Alan said:
When was it last done?
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ephraim_pule
I drive a 2002 Volvo V70 T5 Estate
Built to UK Standards
I get an average mpg 25 to 28 UK with a mix of urban and motorway
(freeway)
miles.
On the open road with cruise control at 80 mph over a distance I still
get 31-32 UK mpg.
1 UK Gallons = 1.2 US Gallons
Easier if we all use grown-up units like everyone else in the world:
1 UK Gallon = 4.546 litres
1 US Gallon = 3.785 litres
So the ratio ( 4.548/3.786) is a UK Gallon is 1.2 US Gallons, ish
If my Volvo does 30 mpg UK that will be 25 US mpg. ish.
Why can't everyone get this sorted and go metric?
Although I am in UK , I buy my petrol (gas) in litres as I would
absolutely everywhere else in the rest of Europe, Canada or indeed the
whole world!
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Except the US, which wants to be different for no reason that anyone
understands.
(A Mars-lander crashed a few years ago 'cos NASA didn't understand
that not everyone uses the antiquated units that the US inherited from
their UK colonial masters.
Odd that the rest of the British Empire/Commonwealth, when it grew up,
all went metric)
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Anyway my good old V70 T5 at 60,000 miles (100k kms or so) is still
doing more that 30 UK mpg on a run and about 25 ish in town
EP
Built to UK Standards
I get an average mpg 25 to 28 UK with a mix of urban and motorway
(freeway)
miles.
On the open road with cruise control at 80 mph over a distance I still
get 31-32 UK mpg.
1 UK Gallons = 1.2 US Gallons
Easier if we all use grown-up units like everyone else in the world:
1 UK Gallon = 4.546 litres
1 US Gallon = 3.785 litres
So the ratio ( 4.548/3.786) is a UK Gallon is 1.2 US Gallons, ish
If my Volvo does 30 mpg UK that will be 25 US mpg. ish.
Why can't everyone get this sorted and go metric?
Although I am in UK , I buy my petrol (gas) in litres as I would
absolutely everywhere else in the rest of Europe, Canada or indeed the
whole world!
**************************************
Except the US, which wants to be different for no reason that anyone
understands.
(A Mars-lander crashed a few years ago 'cos NASA didn't understand
that not everyone uses the antiquated units that the US inherited from
their UK colonial masters.
Odd that the rest of the British Empire/Commonwealth, when it grew up,
all went metric)
**************************************
Anyway my good old V70 T5 at 60,000 miles (100k kms or so) is still
doing more that 30 UK mpg on a run and about 25 ish in town
EP
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Nick
I drive a 2002 Volvo V70 T5 Estate
Built to UK Standards
I get an average mpg 25 to 28 UK with a mix of urban and motorway
(freeway)
miles.
On the open road with cruise control at 80 mph over a distance I still
get 31-32 UK mpg.
1 UK Gallons = 1.2 US Gallons
Easier if we all use grown-up units like everyone else in the world:
1 UK Gallon = 4.546 litres
1 US Gallon = 3.785 litres
So the ratio ( 4.548/3.786) is a UK Gallon is 1.2 US Gallons, ish
If my Volvo does 30 mpg UK that will be 25 US mpg. ish.
Why can't everyone get this sorted and go metric?
Although I am in UK , I buy my petrol (gas) in litres as I would
absolutely everywhere else in the rest of Europe, Canada or indeed the
whole world!
**************************************
Except the US, which wants to be different for no reason that anyone
understands.
(A Mars-lander crashed a few years ago 'cos NASA didn't understand
that not everyone uses the antiquated units that the US inherited from
their UK colonial masters.
Odd that the rest of the British Empire/Commonwealth, when it grew up,
all went metric)
**************************************
Anyway my good old V70 T5 at 60,000 miles (100k kms or so) is still
doing more that 30 UK mpg on a run and about 25 ish in town
EP
Well perhaps we Brits ought to fall in and express our miles per gallon in
litres / 100km ?
Or do you propose we buy in litres, and continue to quote consumption in
miles per gallon ?
Nick
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John Horner
Alan said:What miles per gallon should I be getting from a volvo s70 2.4
automatic (non turbo, with only 1 person in the car)? Its displaying
22.5 at the moment with from a mixture of road conidtions. Is that a
bit low?
Low 20s in local driving, high 20s to low 30s at steady state highway
running is pretty much normal for these.
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Andy Cap
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Icky Thwacket
Andy Cap said:I thought everything in the US was bigger ! ;-)
Andy
Its all down to the pint!
A US pint of water is a piddling 16 ounces, whereas a good old UK pint is 20
ounces!
They even get short changed on a pint of beer!
M
Michael Pardee
Icky Thwacket said:Its all down to the pint!
A US pint of water is a piddling 16 ounces, whereas a good old UK pint is
20
ounces!
They even get short changed on a pint of beer!
Aww... when I was in grade school I was taught "a pint's a pound the world
around." So much for that!