Keith,

Thanks for this clarification

Mother England strikes again!

Well as they say if you're going to go metric, make sure you go every inch of the way!

I found it interesting that there were a number of variations in Imperial measurments such as the UK Gal and US Gal. What I found out early in my engineering trades days in the 70's that there were a several metric's! It seems that most everybody has settled on the ISO Metric Standard.

Regards,

Chris

Chris
Before anyone gets too excited about Chris' fuel mileage,
note that in Aus (and Canada as well) that's a UK gallon.
His fuel mileage in US gallons is 20.2 mpg.
This drove me nuts when I first got my Golf, because in
Canada, all fuel consumption figures are first given in
l/100 km, then mpgUK.  I couldn't figure out why I was
getting such terrible gas mileage compared to the Cdn specs
because of course, I used a US gallon).  I have a
spreadsheet that does all the calculations for me in any
unit I want now.  Doh.
Keith Adams
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia "Roxy"
Chris Mundy wrote:

> Hi,
 >
 > Some of you may be interested in these figures.
 >
 > Last week our family took a trip from the Australia Capital Territory (ACT)
 > in Australia to lower part of Victoria to stay at Point Hicks lighthouse on
 > the edge of Bass straight. The road was a mixture of 2 lane highway driving,
 > mountain driving, and  100kms of Dirt(Yuk!).
 >
 > I kept a records of my kms/miles to analysis my fuel consumption based on my
 > fuel stops.
 >
 > Leg 1: Dickson, Canberra ACT -> Cooma NSW
 > Road type between destinations: Monaro Highway with some hills
 > Fuel used: Shell Optimax RON 98
 > Fuel used (Litres): 12.98
 > Km's Travelled: 121
 > L/100Km: 10.73
 > Fuel used (Gallons):2.85
 > Miles Travelled :75.63
 > MPG: 26.51