CPians and Fuel Efficent Cars ?
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Any CPians driving fuel efficient cars ? What are they and how do they rate performance versus efficiency trade off ?
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch If its fast and ugly, they will use it and curse you; if its slow they will not use it -- David Cheriton
I ride a motorbike most of the time Yamaha 600 sports which gets about 55mpg or £20 for the month. My Mrs has a Renault Senic desiel which does 40Mpg in the city and 60Mpg on motorways etc... Full tanlk has a range of 550 miles. There someone I know who uses veg oil mixed with a few litres of reg desiel and a little methanol (meths out the chemist) to run a desiel car; saves a fortune I beleive.
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I ride a motorbike most of the time Yamaha 600 sports which gets about 55mpg or £20 for the month. My Mrs has a Renault Senic desiel which does 40Mpg in the city and 60Mpg on motorways etc... Full tanlk has a range of 550 miles. There someone I know who uses veg oil mixed with a few litres of reg desiel and a little methanol (meths out the chemist) to run a desiel car; saves a fortune I beleive.
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Frank Kerrigan wrote:
There someone I know who uses veg oil mixed with a few litres of reg desiel and a little methanol (meths out the chemist) to run a desiel car; saves a fortune I beleive.
... probably right up until the powers that be realize your friend is guilty of tax evasion for not paying fuel tax on all the veg oil being put into the tank. :doh:
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Any CPians driving fuel efficient cars ? What are they and how do they rate performance versus efficiency trade off ?
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch If its fast and ugly, they will use it and curse you; if its slow they will not use it -- David Cheriton
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Any CPians driving fuel efficient cars ? What are they and how do they rate performance versus efficiency trade off ?
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch If its fast and ugly, they will use it and curse you; if its slow they will not use it -- David Cheriton
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Any CPians driving fuel efficient cars ? What are they and how do they rate performance versus efficiency trade off ?
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch If its fast and ugly, they will use it and curse you; if its slow they will not use it -- David Cheriton
I get down to 7.8l/100km, I am not sure what that calcualtes to MPG but I think it is fairly good. In the city I drive agressive, why wouldn't i I did get the V6 not the 4cyl, then it drops to 11L/100km. Those numbers calcualte to.... 30.6 US, 36.22 Euro MPG on Highway and 21.38 US, 25.6 Euro MPG in City. I am happy for now, only owe a few more months on it amybe I'll get one of those prius's or wait till they get better hybrids (affordable). My 2 cents.
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Any CPians driving fuel efficient cars ? What are they and how do they rate performance versus efficiency trade off ?
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch If its fast and ugly, they will use it and curse you; if its slow they will not use it -- David Cheriton
Come spring I ride a motorcycle. It's a heavy cruiser but still gets 50mpg woo-hoo!!!
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Chevrolet Corsa Flex (Brazilian car on gas and ethanol) On gas: 31 miles/gallon On ethanol: 22.34 miles/gallon ;P It's not very fast, but since urban traffic is always slow...
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If you want safety, longevity, and decent mpg and don't have a lot of $, find you an old, low-mileage (good luck) Volvo 240. The newer cars bounce right off of it. :wtf: You can find 15 - 20 each day on ebay. They seem to run from $500 - $7,000 or so.
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The Yaris does great. But also rember that the UK uses imperial gallons and in the US we use well, US liquid gallons. To really gauge this you need to convert apples to apples. Doing so 1 MPG (US) = .425km/L 1 MPG(Imperial) = .354km/L So your Prius is getting 19.2km/L and Colin's Yaris is getting 19.5km/L. Still impressive but also keep in mind that the Yaris is a much smaller and lighter car than the Prius. Also, I am surprised you are only getting 45MPG in your Prius, I've hit that in my Corolla on long road trips and we do consistently 50MPG on our Prius
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Chris Austin wrote:
Also, I am surprised you are only getting 45MPG in your Prius, I've hit that in my Corolla on long road trips and we do consistently 50MPG on our Prius
As you know, the Prius actually does the best MPG-wise in local stop and go traffic. We sometime take ours out on the highway, which may lower it slightly. Also, I am bad about filling up at the local Hess station, which has a certain (small) percentage of Ethanol in their gas, which may also lower it slightly. I also tend to be a lead foot more than I should when I take off from a light, etc. :-\
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Kyudos wrote:
America could lower the price of oil the world over if everyone there drove a car with a 1 litre engine. Lets face it, your speed limit is so low, you don't need anything larger...
Actually, a well designed aerodynamic shape wouldn't take all that big of an engine to go very fast, but you wouldn't have much room in it. Since half the people here are still in SUVs, they need the 4 or 5 liter engines just to get the things out of the way of other drivers at an intersection. Though, case in point, I have a 2.4 liter engine that has taken me up to 158 mph up a hill and only stopped accelerating due to knowledge of the next turn on the course. I think that is a perfect reason to restrict lambos to 4 cylinders ;)
Kyudos wrote:
And if so, why is that the only metric measure you've adopted?
We are slightly less confusing then the English who not only use MKS units, but when referring to their weight I hear many use stones... As for changing all the way over? Do you have ANY IDEA how many road signs we have? The cost of changing them would be astronomical! (Literally, we could send a robotic spacecraft to Mars for the cost of it) ;)
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True enough, and its the same in Britain. All our road signs are still in miles, people refer to MPG (not litres per 100km or whatever the f--- it is). We buy beer in pints and weigh ourselves in stones and pounds (and kilos too, sometimes, I suppose).
Kyudos wrote:
We buy beer in pints
"They come in pints!? I'm getting one!"
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Any CPians driving fuel efficient cars ? What are they and how do they rate performance versus efficiency trade off ?
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch If its fast and ugly, they will use it and curse you; if its slow they will not use it -- David Cheriton
You must live in Europe or something. I'm from America, where we like everything bigger and badder. Hello world? Not unless it's running on an IBM Blue Gene, one string per processor. I'll take an M1 Abrams (fuel hogging) tank for my car, and my entire infrastructure on Visual Basic 6. I vote for bloat! X|
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"the small 49cc Yamahas claim a fuel efficiency rating of 115 mpg!" (see reference) You must have one of the tiny ones. Works out great on flat surfaces, but can't clear a hill in excess of 4 inches. ;) Reference http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/Article_Page.aspx?ArticleID=4884&Page=1[^]
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Swap the Aston for an Aerial Atom :)
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Definitely - I had a Civic Type R, and the powertrain (especially the gearbox) was brilliant. Mated to a 400kg car (or whatever the Atom is)? Insanity, even without the supercharger :-)
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Any CPians driving fuel efficient cars ? What are they and how do they rate performance versus efficiency trade off ?
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch If its fast and ugly, they will use it and curse you; if its slow they will not use it -- David Cheriton
I'm about as fuel-efficient as you can get. I live a six-minute walk away from work -- which is pretty good, given that I'm only a ten-minute walk in any direction from the open countryside (with trees and squirrels and cows and things). I think I'm with the only IT firm in the world where you can have your lunch in a forest. A *real* forest. Don't feed the bears. I don't even keep a car, because the major automotive functions, of getting to work and/or the shops (there's almost every kind of shop, including a supermarket, in this little developed island in the wilderness) just don't apply. The costs saved by not running a car cover an awful lot of taxi fares for the long-ish distances to larger habitational centres.