How many liters

[television]

Just for fun, anyone like to guess how many liters the V8 will consume driving the 252 miles home, 210 of motorway 42 on B roads, I will fill to the top before I start and again this end.

malcolm

 

[malcolm E53 AMG]

As you will be driving it like a kitten I would imagine 45.5l

If you join the business brigade up that to 50l

 

[Blobcat]

I think you will use 44 ltrs

 

[davidsl500]

47.1 Litres, if its less Malcolm then spill the rest on the forcourt...

 

[hawk20]

Just for fun, anyone like to guess how many liters the V8 will consume driving the 252 miles home, 210 of motorway 42 on B roads, I will fill to the top before I start and again this end.

malcolm

What is all this continental rubbish with litres. The answer is 10 to 12 gallons. Oh all right - say 50 litres.
Enjoy the drive.

 

[MercAl]

52 litres...Enjoy!

 

[turnipsock]

My car does about £10/hour in the fuel dept. Petrol at about a £1/litre you should burn about 25.2 litres...or is my logic flawed somewhere?

 

[Blobcat]

My car does about £10/hour in the fuel dept. Petrol at about a £1/litre you should burn about 25.2 litres...or is my logic flawed somewhere?

I think your logic is off slightly, 25.2lts for 252 miles = 45.46mpg, if you can get that for a SL500 then I will trade my E320CDI today.

 

[alexspurs61]

50.45 litres exactly. Precisely. No doubts at all.

 

[mioba]

52 litres...Enjoy!

i will second you on that

 

[G MAN]

I make it 51.54 litres but do you trust the fuel pump??

 

[kth286]

45.82 litres

 

[SLinKyjoe]

if you drive like i did last week, 38.6ltrs!. but shall we say for fun around 40 (38-42)

mine averaged 28 mpg last week over the 750miles i did.

 

[Shambolic]

39.5 litres

 

[Bobthebuilder58]

If you drive like a old fart (as I do!!)59 litres............if you cane it 69 litres

Bob

 

[turnipsock]

I think your logic is off slightly, 25.2lts for 252 miles = 45.46mpg, if you can get that for a SL500 then I will trade my E320CDI today.

I can't see it.

252 miles at 100mph, £10/hr, fuel at £1/l = 25.2l

 

[television]

The way home

Left Liverpool, got onto the M58, that was easy, then M6 wonderful, sailing along and get to the choice of M6 or M6 Toll, so I thinks to myself, you spend all this money on a car,and you are too tight to pay a Toll, then I thought to myself "did not see it on the way up" are well never mind Toll road here we come. Nice and quite on this piece, so lets have a fiddle with "Distronic". Get all the info up, it was great OK 50 feet distance, all set sitting there and my car slows down when a car cuts in,and pulls away again.
After a bit I thought I would check where I was, the next sign said Loughbourgh, huuuurm I think, I could drop in on DavidsSL, then no, I do not have the address, next one said Northhampton, I could drop in on my sister, then the penny dropped, I was on the M1, s--- what do I do now, so stopped at the Watford Gap services. The only thing missing on the car is the handbook for Command, anyway 5 mins later I had Lyme Regis up and had to turn round and go back up the M42 to join the M5 and home, in all 360 miles.
Sorry folks that I messed up, but the 360 mile journey consumed 55.46 liters or 12.198 imp gallons.That = 29.51 miles per gallon, 80mph on the motorways, and the speed limit on B roads
If someone can work out who was the clossest, I will send a box of chocolates to the winner.

Malcolm

Went to bed at 12pm, woke up at 2am, went and made a coffee,better check that the car is still there, sat in it till 4am, and back to bed

 

[Blobcat]

Hi Malcolm and welcome home, are you sure you messed up the journey? I would have probably made it a 1,000 mile trip home
As for the fuel economy, assuming you had gone direct at 29.51mpg you would have used 38.82 ltrs for the 252 miles, so looking at the post's Shambolic is closest with 39.5.

 

[SLinKyjoe]

As for the fuel economy, assuming you had gone direct at 29.51mpg you would have used 38.82 ltrs for the 252 miles, so looking at the post's Shambolic is closest with 39.5.

i think you will find i had 38.6. thus meaning i was 0.2 out.!!!

if you drive like i did last week, 38.6ltrs

Sorry and all that but the choccies are mine!

 

[Blobcat]

i think you will find i had 38.6. thus meaning i was 0.2 out.!!!




Sorry and all that but the choccies are mine!

if you drive like i did last week, 38.6ltrs!. but shall we say for fun around 40 (38-42)

But you gave 4 possible answers, therefore an average of your ammounts has to be taken which would be 39.65 therefore Shambolic still wins...