New Mini Coming!
Mini has announced the third generation Cooper to be available in March. Of course, I already have one on order. ;) Specs are impressive! Cooper gets 52 mpg, Cooper S gets 41 mpg and Cooper D is 67...
Forum Discussion
Francesca Knowles wrote:
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I don't think there's anything negative about folks' confusion about the mileage figures....are we sure that WNY Pat's post below is wrong?wny_pat wrote:
An Imperial gallon is 1.2 U.S. gallons, or a U.S. gallon is 0.83 Imperial gallons. Roughly speaking, discount the Times numbers by one-fifth: a 50 mpg vehicle to them is a 40 mpg vehicle to us Yanks. Another reason we should all go metric.
I ask because that language about difference in volume appears in many other places related to fuel economy including this one
Francesca, Pat is talking about the "race" staged by the London Times between a BMW diesel and a Prius, where the beemer won. It doesn't matter how the gallons were measured because both vehicles were using the same measurement. You could measure the fuel as quarts per furlong and as long as both vehicles were measured the same it wouldn't matter.
As for the mileage for the new Mini, I did the conversion from liters per 100 kilometers into US mpg. Liters are the same everywhere, so imperial gallons don't enter into the equation.
