Miles per gallon?I

bryanb

Is it time the UK adopted a sensible measure of road fuel use? Fuel is sold by the litre, so arriving at MPG figures involves converting litres to gallons. Why not miles per litre? It would make no sense to adopt the litres per hundred kilometers used on the mainland of Europe as we have not adopted the kilometer yet. Any other suggestions, Pence per mile would obviously be no good as the baseline would change weekly.

vikingaero

Maybe we should change fuel sold per litre to per gallons?

RichyRich

MPG...there are 568ml to a pint and 8 pints to a gallon. There are therefore 4544 (i.e. 4.544 litres) to a gallon, so divide miles driven by litres used, then divide by 4.544 to get MPG. Miles per litre would mean comparing a metric to an imperial measurement, which doesn't sit right with me.

Zeitgeist

But you are mixing Imperial and metric measurements aren't you?

:rolleyes:

Like your 2 litre car with a 60 litre fuel tank which does 35 miles to the gallon when cruising at 70 miles per hour which have 16 inch alloy wheels with tyres 225mm wide.

RichyRich

That doesn't sound anything like my car

alastairq

my 21 year old volvo estate is currently delivering around 30 mpg......therefore I feel justified in getting in everyone's way.

boatman

People still use MPG because litres per 100km doesn't mean anything to anybody!!
http://www.markporthouse.net/rangie/fuelconsumptionconversion.htm#

bryanb

But what about miles per litre? Not a difficult concept.

movilogo

I prefer to use km/L - which is metric and appears better than L/100 km

lilac_lady

Whatever way you work it out petrol is nearly £5.00 per gallon. If you need your car for journeys to work it's VERY expensive now.

boatman

I think mpg remains popular because there is a large enough differential between the figures for the frugal and the gas guzzlers. No one uses l/100km because no one cares if your car does 6.3 or 8.8.