Wanagetmuddy
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I Don't feel robbed now with the petrol V8 with you diesel boys not getting much more than us ! In fact with gas lpg money to mileage wise we would get more !
2.0_hippo
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(yeah ok bix and Hippo come get the comments in)
awwww.... a little fairy
here he is now getting out of his fairy'mobile ...
gold rover
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I still think the mpg is a dream. I had a Disco1 V8 before and got around 9mpg around town and 15mpg on a motorway run
gold rover
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awwww.... a little fairy
here he is now getting out of his fairy'mobile ...
How dare you!! I shave daily!
p.s it's a bit scary how quickly you found that picture. anything you want to share :hysterically_laughi
2.0_hippo
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How dare you!! I shave daily!
LMAO !!!!!!!
:hysterically_laughi :hysterically_laughi :hysterically_laughi
gold rover
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Wanagetmuddy
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I still think the mpg is a dream. I had a Disco1 V8 before and got around 9mpg around town and 15mpg on a motorway run
Really 9mpg
To be fair there is nearly 20 years difference with the engine.
Our normal run around wife driving to work and child minders 15mpg
I have driven it on the motorway about 25mpg sensible driving.
This is all running on petrol no lpg involved.
Now this is based on the trip computer reading.
With other cars I have driven its never the true consumption !
gold rover
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Yep 9mpg, stop start, traffic lights and damn school runners. 15mpg was based on fill and refill over several 400mile drives mainly motorway. I think I got 18 once and wondered what went wrong
Although I will say that veh was a Friday afternoon/Monday morning one.
Wanagetmuddy
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Yep 9mpg, stop start, traffic lights and damn school runners. 15mpg was based on fill and refill over several 400mile drives mainly motorway. I think I got 18 once and wondered what went wrong
Although I will say that veh was a Friday afternoon/Monday morning one.
Geees was it traffic light gran prix every time.
To be fair I drive a astra diesel work car and at the weekend I tend to go out on the RR and enjoy the power of the v8.
gold rover
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Geees was it traffic light gran prix every time.
To be fair I drive a astra diesel work car and at the weekend I tend to go out on the RR and enjoy the power of the v8.
Nope as said before I drive with fairy feet.
StuckAgainSteve
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Jeez - that's hardly any better than my 4.6 petrol P38!
2.0_hippo
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Believe me, it would be
If I had a 4.6 it would be doing 12mpg lol
Datatek
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A mate with an L322 gets around 26/28mpg locally and over 31 mpg on the autoroute, my P38 diesel locally averages 24mpg from brim to brim and close to 30mpg on a run.
gold rover
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I'd be upset if I only got 3-5 mpg more on a motorway run than I get around town. If I had the magic to get 26/28mpg around town, I'd expect the same magic to give me almost 40mpg on a motorway run. Although 'locally' can mean anything, including dual carriageway. Not necessarily stop /start.
At low speeds Drag increases proportional to speed, but as speed increases, drag increases at the square of the speed...
Cd= 1/2P V2 S (Half Rho V Squared S)
Rho is the density of air
V is velocity (Squared)
S is the Cross Sectional Surface Area
Hence why you won't get much better MPG the faster you go...!
True, looked at another way. If you have a car with 100 BHP that does 100 MPH. To get 200 MPH you would need 400 BHP.
gold rover
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Ok but my point was more one about the magic behind getting 28mpg 'around town' and the fact that I would be disappointed if that magic worked in town but not on the motorway. I wouldn't mind knowing the secret of his unusually high mpg. Is it that 'locally' is not suburban roads, with stop/start traffic.
Much simpler putTrue, looked at another way. If you have a car with 100 BHP that does 100 MPH. To get 200 MPH you would need 400 BHP.
