Showing posts with label gas mileage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gas mileage. Show all posts

Fuel consumption with no equal


The above dump truck is using 3 liters of fuel a minute, and in one trip from the bottom to the top of this open pit mine, which is 10 kilometers, it burns as much fuel in that one trip as a normal passenger car uses in a year

found on Tamerlane's Thoughts http://karakullake.blogspot.com/

Fuel mileage comparison by Top Gear

The Toyota Prius gets 17.2
the M3 BMW gets 19.4

When tested at the Prius top speed around a race track, and the BMW following at the top speed the Prius could do around the racetrack.
No joke, Top Gear, Season 11 episode 1, 8 minutes into the episode.

At racing speed around a track, worst to best mileage of supercars as determined when they ran out of the one gallon of gas they were given.

Ferrari 599: 1.7 miles per gallon
Aston Martin: 2nd to run out of gas
McLaren: 3 rd to run out of gas
Lambo Murcialrgo: 4.1 mpg
Audi A8: 5 miles per gallon

Pickuptrucks.com top 10 list of "better than average gas mileage" classic trucks

Number 10: the 1928-31 Model A... 17-21 mpg
Number 9: 1937-47 Austin Bantam 35 to 50 mpg
Number 8: 1940-62 Crosley 41 mpg
Number 7: 1950 Austin A40 28 to 35 mpg
Number 6: 1954 -56 Powell Sport 28 mpg
Number 5: 1961 Volkswagen Pickup 20-25 mpg
Number 4: 1960-1966 Ford Ranchero 24-30 mpg with the smallest engine
Number 3: 1960 Crofton Bug (A Crosley at heart) 44-50 mpg
Number 2: 1964-1966 Chevrolet El Camino 14-20 mpg with the smallest engine
Number 1: 1961-1971 International Harvester Scout Pickup 25-28 mpg with the smallest engine

http://www.pickuptrucks.com/html/stories/history/pumppassing/page1.html