Car Mileage

[HazieDaVampire]

Just out of interest, could everybody who reads this quickly state:

Where they're from (Overal area, like country and county/state)
Car fuel Mileage
Car make and model
Car Type (Truck, SUZ, Super mini, exec, family, people carrier).

[DuncanK]

Fresno, CA
37city 40highway
2001 Honda Civic HX
compact

[Provost Harrison]

Hull, Yorkshire, England.
About 40 combined.
1999 Nissan Almera 1.4 16v
Family hatch

[Sikander]

I live in Boulder Colorado. I've never owned a car, but sometimes I drive my girlfriend's car.

It gets about 35 mpg, and it's a hatchback with a v6 overhead cam.

[Provost Harrison]

Don't you Americans have bigger sized gallons anyway?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Don't you Americans have bigger sized gallons anyway?

I thought it was you guys who had the larger gallon, the "Imperial" IIRC.

[DuncanK]

No,

It's you Euros that have smaller liters

[Zkribbler]

Los Angeles, CA
About 30 mpg
Mazda Miata
Subcompact

[DRoseDARs]

Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, United States
(city pop 200K; "metropolitan" pop 500k)

17mpg on average, mostly highway (home->work and home->college)

1992 Ford 4-Door Explorer; mid-sized(?) S.U.V.

[Lincoln]

I live in Tennessee, USA. My Honda Accord (1988) gets something over 30 miles per gallon.

[Frankychan]

Honolulu, Hawaii USA
18~23 mpg. (or maybe even less than that)
Chevrolet Blazer
SUV.

(I'm hoping to get a Camaro, Saab, Jaguar, or a GTO)

[Daz]

Zagreb
7 lit/100 km
Skoda Octavia
Family

-making a point here

[KrazyHorse]

IIRC, US has 3.78 litres to the gallon, UK has 4.5 or so.

[HazieDaVampire]

bloody hell, it is true, American cars do gussell down the gas.

I was watching a program about when all the arab nations decided to put a fuel embargo on america and within a super short length of time all the pumps ran dry.

[Japher]

San Jose, CA
17/20 mpg
GMC Sierra Z-71
Truck