2L Engine 30MPG VS 1.4L Enginge 30MPG - Difference?
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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...
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:
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
It's purely a Maths failing masqueraded as a car thread.
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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.
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.
The size of a man's bun box is solely between him and his physician and has no place in a thread about fuel consumption!
