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OT: High Gas Prices -- Tune Up Your Bike
Mr ChriZ:
It cost me £57/$112 (Aprox 45 litres) to fill my car the other day. :(
On the plus side I've worked out that by driving at 60mph, I can get 700 miles out of that.
Also I walk everywhere for the most part, so fill it up once every 2 months
JONCAT:
I'm tuning up my bus butt down here in southern Florida; students ride free! Even a four cylinder is costing us too much.
DC
AustinBike:
Just got back from spain where gas was $8/gal.
I am a strong proponent of biking everywhere.
Yaobing:
--- Quote from: Mr ChriZ on June 21, 2008, 03:40:35 am ---It cost me £57/$112 (Aprox 45 litres) to fill my car the other day. :(
--- End quote ---
That is $9.42 / gal. Why are we so upset about $4/gal here in the US?
--- Quote ---On the plus side I've worked out that by driving at 60mph, I can get 700 miles out of that.
--- End quote ---
59 miles / gal. Great mileage. What kind of car is it?
Mr ChriZ:
One that they don't make any more, since going bust!
Rover 45 Turbo Diesel. My friends call it the Grandad Mobile. Not fashionable but for a student car it made a lot of sense!
I know you can get similar figures and probably even better driving a modern 1.6TDCI Ford Focus.
I hear they don't do many diesels over in the states though.
Most our cars are manual as well which helps quite a lot.
We drive hire cars for work and i test the fuel economy on each one i get.
Suprisingly the smaller cars actually tend to do quite badly ie the Fiesta size cars.
I think it's because they're not really designed for the highways.
The focus i think was the most most economical i've driven so far.
VW Golf GT Automatic petrol was the worst. I spent more time at the fuel station
than out of it! Good fun drive though!
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