What is it with travelling? How can it take massively longer to do the outward leg of a journey than the return leg?
I left home at 6.30am and got to my destination, 200.45 miles away at 11.10. The return leg took exactly 3hrs 15min.
Admittedly I had two ‘toilet break’ stops on the way up but they were five minute affairs – out, wee, coffee, in, go (drink on the go), whereas the return trip had no stops.
But four and a half hours vs 3 and a quarter hours?
Anyway, because I am slightly geeky nerdy bloke (why did you chortle over the word ‘slightly’?), I just wanted to share my mileage with you:
- 400.9 miles, round trip
- 33.56 litres/diesel expended, equals
- 54.41 miles per gallon (or if you’re from the United States, 65.34 mpg), at a
- £/mile cost of £0.10p
- Driving style: as per my advanced motorbike instruction – very hard/fast acceleration up to the speed limit, then sit there at 30/40/50/70 (or whatever).
Smugness abounds here, oh yes, there is much smug in this house tonight.
What a geek! What car were you driving by the way, because your fuel consumption seems quite attractive!
Just don’t ask to see the horsebox MPG figures! An 8.2l turbo diesel in a 10-T lorry with half a ton of equine on board? It’d shock the unshockable. Today’s trip was in my Vectra which has a 1.9l TDCI engine.
I guess you are talking GPM rather than MPG based on those stats!
54.41 mpg 🙁
I’m going to have to buy a diesel as a run around / mile muncher soon I think.
54.41 mpg 🙁
Annie, the best I’ve had from Tom’s Taxi is 16.29mpg 🙁
Perp, aye, with the miles you do it might be worth the expense. Or… I have a friend who had her V6 Shogun converted to LPG. She now pays something like 52p/litre
54 to the gallon, a figure I can only dream of.