thread: Petrol Challenge - Will you participate?

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  1. #1
    BellyBelly Member
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    Jan 2007
    VIC
    2,199

    Ok I can NEVER let my car run to empty.... the closest service station is 30kms away and we'd be totally stuffed!
    My V8 Ford BA Fairlane G220 will do approx 10-12L/100kms mainly highway/country road driving. It guzzles much more fuel when running around town and if we lived in town we would not own it.
    I'm still shocked to see that it's reasonably economical considering it's engine size. It has a display that tells me average fuel consumption and instantaneous fuel consumption and I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it, but I have gotten it into the 90's once or twice - that's instantaneous.... not average.

  2. #2

    Mar 2004
    Sparta
    12,662

    My car insists on the posh petrol. I think it usually costs about $120 to fill the tank. A full tank will take me from here to Sydney and back - so somewhere between 550 and 600 kms.
    That's in normal mode. In sports mode I may as well just slice up dolphins....

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Sep 2005
    In the middle of nowhere
    9,362

    We have an 06 Outlander that gets 450-500 per tank. I will not put the cost in though, as we pay anywhere from $1.66 - $2.80 a litre (of regular unleaded). I get 20km once the second fuel light comes on (it gives you a quick flash when it's quite low) and once it starts to flash I have about 1km.