I spent part of my evening watching Top Gear the most awesome motoring television programme ever. They’ve had several programmes where Hammond (the Hammster) and James have taken some form of public transport while Jeremy have driven a super car. They’ve gone to somewhere on Côte d’azur, somewhere in Switzerland, and in this episode to Oslo, Norway. Each trip started in London, first to the destination won.
While the race was interesting enough, albeit somewhat predictable (as they’ve all been), what stuck out was a tiny tidbit of information. Jeremy was driving the Mercedes McLaren SLR and said that going full out (at the top speed of 330 km/t) the SLR would drain its 95 L gas tank in 19 minutes! That is an astonishing 1.1 km/L which is, believe it or not, worse than the Hummer H2. Of course the H2 doesn’t do 330 km/t.
Tags: Thought
I guess that’s not the kind of car I’ll be getting when I get a car… seeing as I am now the proud owner of a drivers license! Yay!
But seriously, what’s on the other end? I hear the Volkswagen Lupo get’s pretty decent mileage… What about the small cheapo japanese ones?
Just don’t go for the Chevrolet Matiz, it only got 2 stars in a recent Euro NCAP crash test. The Toyota Yaris is pretty safe and has pretty good mileage, but I do believe it’s a tad pricey. To be frank, mileage hasn’t really been the focus when I’ve looked at cars, so I’m not too up-to-date about it. You could always ask FDM. Under Viden om biler they have some pointers on economy, safety, and so on (albeit a tad bit neutered when you’re not a member).
On the subject of Euro NCAP, I highly recommend going in and looking at the test reports for the cars you’re interested in (unfortunately, only available in the newest tests). It’s interesting to see why the cars scored as they did.
Thanks, that’s good advice!
By the way, is there a reason you’re not using “Subscribe to Comments” ?
Nope, I just haven’t yet.
Get going then! With my lazyness I’m completely and utterly dependant on that feature!
Fortunately v.2 is really easy to install.