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Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient by gambiting on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:37PM (#14370884)
On the other hand, I drove a VW Passat 2.0TDI Bluemotion over last weekend - did 450 miles and averaged.....60mpg. That's insane.

I mean, I'm super happy that my 2.0L petrol 381bhp beast gets 30mpg on the motorway, but we can still do a lot better.

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Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient by timelol on Thursday May 18, 2017 @05:36PM (#14371313)
You can't compare diesel and petrol cars on a fuel-volumetric basis. You have to use mass because diesel is more dense. There is 15% more fuel in a gallon of diesel than in a gallon of petrol.
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Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient by rrdharan on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:46PM (#14370951)
Was that with or without the defeat device though?
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Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient by gambiting on Thursday May 18, 2017 @05:03PM (#14371067)
It was a brand new 2017 model, rental car - so I suspect not, but who knows what they are doing internally.
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