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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:11 pm
by ToranaGuy
I was getting about 8L/100 with a heavy right boot and a worn out F8b & F5a 4spd before it died. It will be interesting to see how much better the new F8b is in fuel economy or performance for the same fuel.
It's heaps better than the average of my EB @ 15.5/100 of late, but i give it a hard time. Cruising on the Hwy i can get it down to 8/100 with the cruise on & in 5th gear.
Cheers
ToranaGuy
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:28 pm
by Brayden
Using L/100kms is fine by me for the purpose of comparing fuel economy as it makes the comparisons far more simple.
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:46 pm
by Unco
mowog wrote:mine was getting about 55-60 mpg but I had a big lunch.
l per 100k is a load of crap that was inflicted on us by the metric conversion people who also gave us m/2 instead of 2/m so that I always have to verify what I am actually being offerred as square metres is not the same as metres squared.
apparently these peolpe were geeks kept in a white room and never let out into the real world. When Labor was last in power I think.
I totally ignore litres per 100 k, and ask the sales rep what the kilometres per litre is, always makes them think.
the fact is that it is a pain to work out how much fuel you need or use in the l/k method. I need to know that if i put in 18 litres I am going to travel approximately 150k.
Apparently when the metric measurements were introduced motoring journalists were threatened with legal action by the govt if they used km per l, as most wanted.
i am yet to come across one person who understands litres/100km. i understand it, but i don't think many more people do.
when i tell them that i was getting 20L/100Km in the F100 and 25L/100Km in my LTD (which i have since sold), they thought the LTD had better fuel economy and when you try to explain it to them, their eyes glaze.
i don't have a problem with either way of showing fuel efficiency, but i must admit, Km per Litres makes a hell of a lot more sense and should be easier to understand.
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:42 pm
by Billie
its not very hard to understand
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:01 am
by Unco
nova_66 wrote:its not very hard to understand
you're a minority. and what are your figures, btw?
have you tried to explain it to the general public?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:24 am
by Brayden
Everyone I speak to about cars (admittedly most are <30) all use L/100kms. Most new cars these days have L/100kms as an onboard economy measurement.
Yes it is a rubbish measurement for working out how far you can get on a tank of fuel, but when comparing the economy of two cars it makes the job far simpler.
Personally I find trying to compare economy figures using km/L is more difficult, kind of like trying to compare acceleration by using distance travelled in a fixed time value, rather than time taken to go 0-100kph.
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:56 am
by Tez
trying to compare economy figures using km/L is more difficult
Sorry Brayden, but I'll have to take you to task on this...
Whilst I don't have any particular problem with L/100k I still think Kms/L is simpler... - It is no different really to Mi/Gal. which was the old measurement.
Car A goes 16.2k's / litre
Car B goes 22.7k's / litre
Car C goes 12.9k's / litre
Which one is more fuel efficient?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:01 am
by Brokenshire
Car A 6.17L/100km
Car B 4.41L/100km
Car C 7.75L/100km
Is the same car still as efficent?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:28 pm
by Billie
if i could get my mb to run long enough to get figures i would be really happy
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:01 pm
by Karu
I know that if I am, say, 40 kilometres from home and I am running on empty with a little money in my pocket I can put just over 2 litres in my tank and be safe. Using litres per 100 km I am stuffed for an equation.
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:33 pm
by suzutey
my f8b is 8 or 9 lt/100k
but its screwed.
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:07 pm
by ToranaGuy
suzutey wrote:my f8b is 8 or 9 lt/100k
but its screwed.
That's petrol, how's about oil L/100kms? lol. Mine was using 2.5/100 of oil until i removed it from service.
Cheers
ToranaGuy
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:27 pm
by Tez
Mine was using 2.5/100 of oil until i removed it from service
ROTFL
Thats a fair effort Jay given, the capacity of the oil system is only 2.5L
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:34 pm
by Karu
705 km trip F10A Super Carry with 265,000 original km with speeds up to 125 = 100ml oil.
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:07 pm
by cam
My F8b running turbo carby and no turbo gets 10L/100 but over fuels on anything more than half throttle! cant wait to get the turbo back on as soon as uni exams are over!