2L Engine 30MPG VS 1.4L Enginge 30MPG - Difference?

[TW]Fox;21466474 said:
Generally speaking your average 1.4 litre car has a smaller tank than your avergae 2.0 litre car, which has a smaller tank than your avergae 3.0 litre car.

Tank on mine is stupidly small. I'd prefer to only have to fill up once a month, but can just imagine the headlines:

'Man vaporized on M4 after minor shunt'.
 
Ok, let's look at the 55 quid a fill. Assume 1.37/litre that's 40.15 litres or 8.82 Gallons. 30Mpg=264 miles to the tank right? It's cost you 20.8p/mile.

90 quid fill=65.69 litres, or 14.43 Gallons. 30Mpg=432 Miles to the tank. It's cost you .... 20.8p/mile.

So, yes you go further on a single tank with a bigger tank, but at the same consumption rate it'll cost you exactly the same.

Thats all I needed to know, thanks.

Now that I look back, it was a stupid question!
 
You are too stupid to have a car. Please take the bus.

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You buy some fuel. This costs x pounds per litre.

You buy as much fuel as you need to fill your tank. So a bigger tank will hold more fuel, and thus cost more to fill.

Mpg is how many miles you can travel per gallon of fuel (a gallon is just another unit of volume, like litres). A higher mpg value= further travelled per unit fuel= cheaper per mile.

Take two cars which have the same mpg but different sized fuel tanks. They will cost different amounts to fill up because you can fit more fuel in one, but the one with the bigger tank will travel further between fill ups. But they will both cost the same amount per mile, that's much more interesting.

The size of an engine (e.g. 1.6 litre) is completely separate from the size of the fuel tank (although bigger cars tend to have bigger engines and bigger fuel tanks...)

You should have paid more attention at school...
 
[TW]Fox;21466474 said:
Generally speaking your average 1.4 litre car has a smaller tank than your avergae 2.0 litre car, which has a smaller tank than your avergae 3.0 litre car.

A 1.4 Focus has the same size tank as a 2.0 Focus. A fuel tank in a ST220 is only 5l bigger than a 1.4 Focus. It's down to the size of the car and it's class more than the size of the engine. Bit of a pointless thread unless the OP can remember what cars he's actually comparing.
 
This has epic written all over it, in 1inch writing and 25.4mm writing which is good as I could never read something only 25.4mm big.
 
alright, time for you guys to get a life :)

It was a stupid question, I always hear about people worrying about the size of the cars engine because of petrol so I got confused.
 
This is like saying if a fat man eats a bun in 1 minute and a thin man eats a bun in 1 minute, how many more buns can the fat man eat in 5 minutes than the thin man.

They are eating at the same speed.

How many more buns can the fat man carry than the thin man? You don't have sufficient information to answer this question. It depends how big their bun box is.

I'm all out of silly analogys now.
 
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