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Old 24-10-10, 07:39 PM   #8
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Zermatt -- Aren't US gallons different to UK gallons? I just looked up on Google and got this:

...The imperial gallon is 4.546 litres, and the US (Queen Anne) gallon is 3.7853 litres; therefore 1 imperial gallon = 1.2 US gallons...

So you would expect to get lower mp(US)g. Apply conversion and you are getting about 28mpg in Imperial gallons.

In UK I get 27-28mpg locally and low 30s on a run. (2226 KV CQ)


Is this really true? 1 UK gal. = 1.2 US gal.
I honestly had no idea, there were multiple standards for the gallon.
I had wondered for a long time how some of your Audi's got such phenomenal MPG.
I still the hotter cam/higher comp. holds true as well.

Now going to go outside and look at the maximum capacity of my gas tank and do some algebra........
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