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Or buy the wine that comes in screw top bottles.
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Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2024 9:46 pm Image
Holy shit .. the X-Adv is still there?? :wtf:
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Rockburner wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2024 5:45 am
Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2024 9:46 pm Image
Holy shit .. the X-Adv is still there?? :wtf:
The CB1000R has been here since July 2023 and the X-ADV since January 2024 and my ca you can also see there has been here since November 2022. I'm a hoarder! :crazy:
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I think this is a record!

Just under 60mpg on this morning's commute... In a car that weighs 5004lb (according to the app).
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Did the wife drive you in?
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No, she's got a lead foot, gets mid 40's ;)
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This is a Volvo S90, the Volvo competitor to the 5er and the E class.

It's fucking massive with the poverty spec D4 engine. The gear box does clever things to help with the mpg, but it shoots up massively when the weather is warm.
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I once got 73mpg out of my enormous great German saloon with all the bells and whistles :thumbup:
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I can get late 60's on the motorway.

I don't go on the motorway for my commute.
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The hybrid shopping trolley indicates 70.1mpg over 5k miles.

All the others I've 'measured' in fill-ups/month although I think my LWB petrol Landy did about 17mpg.
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TBF that 73mpg was in a German diesel car, so it was probably lying through its teeth and chucking a few back handers to the European Comission to boot.
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Potter wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2024 8:22 am I still resented the tax, but 73mpg was pretty decent....until my wife crashed it with less than 100 miles on the clock :lol:
So that mpg figure was for running-in miles?
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KungFooBob wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2024 7:51 am I think this is a record!

Just under 60mpg on this morning's commute... In a car that weighs 5004lb (according to the app).
You might have got even more if you'd reduced drag by taking the PRIDE flags off! :lol:
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One of the guys in the Triple Club,part of his man cave. 8-)
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A Dalek! :shock: :crazy: :thumbup:
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Taipan wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2024 10:27 am A Dalek! :shock: :crazy: :thumbup:
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Potter wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2024 12:10 pm
mangocrazy wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2024 10:04 am
Potter wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2024 8:22 am I still resented the tax, but 73mpg was pretty decent....until my wife crashed it with less than 100 miles on the clock :lol:
So that mpg figure was for running-in miles?
I don’t think cars need “running in” these days.
Certainly not company cars that get given back every year.
FWIW, I knew a guy who kept meticulous fuel and mileage records. He bought a new BMW K75S, mpg gradually improved and only levelled out after 15,000 miles.
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Missus' big EV SUV gets 350mpg :)

*In equivalent cost to current petrol prices.