Fuel Consumption Conversion

 

We've all had this conversation at Club runs:

Curious spectator: "What's the fuel consumption like?"

Proud Owner: "Oh, about 14 miles per gallon around town . . "

CP: "Er - what's that in kilometres per litre?"

PO: "In whats???"

(Oddly, the official fuel consumption unit is "Litres per 100 km", but I don't think too many people actually use it. I always get asked about km/litre.)

I usually go into a mental fog: let me see, 4.54 litres per gallon, 1.61 km per mile; divide something into something else, put it all over 100 - and then say (slightly embarrassed by my ignorance) , "She drinks like a fish."

No more. Here's a handy conversion table to save you the trouble of using up several ball points pens and half a ream of paper working it all out. I've only gone up to 32 mpg on the theory that very few if any Proper Motor Cars will ever achieve that sort of economy. I started at 1 mpg because under certain circumstances I can imagine one of our PMCs doing as bad as that (say a Phantom 2 hauling another Phantom 2 on a car trailer up Hardknott Pass in England's Lakes District . .)

 

MPG	Km/Litre	MPG	Km/Litre	MPG	Km/Litre	MPG	Km/Litre
1	0.354	9	3.186	17	6.018	25	8.850
2	0.708	10	3.540	18	6.372	26	9.204
3	1.062	11	3.894	19	6.726	27	9.558
4	1.416	12	4.248	20	7.080	28	9.912
5	1.771	13	4.602	21	7.434	29	10.266
6	2.124	14	4.956	22	7.788	30	10.620
7	2.478	15	5.310	23	8.142	31	10.980
8	2.832	16	5.664	24	8.496	32	11.328

 

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