(May 29, 2019 at 7:30 pm)Fireball Wrote: That's some kind of mileage driving on a track, 62 MPG. My Kia Forte got a best of 41 MPG when I did mostly highway with it, but strictly in town I get about 24. I have a truck I pull our travel trailer with. It gets 10 MPG in combined driving and 7 MPG when towing the travel trailer. It has 3 fuel tanks, for a total of 53 gallons. Drive it 350 miles and pay $200 to fill it back up. I don't take it camping much. New vehicles aren't any better. I rented a new Suburban (think truck-sized station wagon) and it got 7 MPG. I could almost see the gauge move left while I was driving it.
I get that mileage with a mix of motorway driving (around 70mph) and town driving, I average 5000 miles per month (spend more time in the car than on customers sites!) I think a UK gallon is bigger than a US gallon so that may make a difference. The car is a 1600cc deisel, aprox 3 1/2 years old with 165,000 miles on the clock
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Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups
Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud ..... after a while you realise that the pig likes it!
