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    #11
    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    Well, my choice is either a 2l or a 2.9l engine. Petrol is 116.9p per litre.

    If I wanted to use the EU standard units, I'd talk in watts.
    If I wanted to use the SI standard units, it's also watts. That's the global standard and is named after a Scotsman.
    So, much as you'd like to bash the EU (as ever and at every opportunity), you'd look as big an idiot as usual for doing so.

    Perhaps you'd prefer we used the FFF system?


    http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf...chure_8_en.pdf
    But is that two, four or five star petrol? That's what I want to know.

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      #12
      Originally posted by The_Equalizer View Post
      But is that two, four or five star petrol? That's what I want to know.
      Ah, BS4040
      "Specification for leaded petrol (gasoline) for motor vehicles" from 1967

      1-Star (89 RON)
      2-Star (92 RON)
      3-Star (95 RON)
      4-Star (98 RON)
      5-Star (101 RON)

      (But I could be wrong)
      …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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        #13
        Originally posted by WTFH View Post
        Ah, BS4040
        "Specification for leaded petrol (gasoline) for motor vehicles" from 1967

        1-Star (89 RON)
        2-Star (92 RON)
        3-Star (95 RON)
        4-Star (98 RON)
        5-Star (101 RON)

        (But I could be wrong)
        Petrol in the UK is 95 RON, with 98 RON being these Shell and Esso special grades, which you only really need in top end turbo charged motors.

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          #14
          Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
          oh yes, the price of petrol

          on the mainland most of the west and central European countries are paying the equivalent of 1eur at the pump for a litre of diesel

          remind me how much they were charging last week at membury services

          Milan.
          At current rates, apparently, about 1 euro per litre...
          Blog? What blog...?

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            #15
            good one

            1.35pound a liter last thursday

            Milan

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              #16
              I need to get a new car. Maybe I should start a thread on the merits of a Vauxhall Vectra. Obviously I will go get something else...
              "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                #17
                Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
                I need to get a new car. Maybe I should start a thread on the merits of a Vauxhall Vectra. Obviously I will go get something else...
                It's a Peugeot Vectra now.
                …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by WTFH View Post
                  It's a Peugeot Vectra now.
                  Whatever...

                  Not touching either of them.
                  "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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