My car has drunk £100,000 in petrol!

[DSM10000]

I think I may be popular with the public

Just reassure us that you are not either Alistair Darling George Osborne in disguise?

 

[therogg]

no the worst thing is you have given the goverment what 75% of that figure in tax etc !! well keep it up your doing a good job !!! ha ha ha

 

[Dieselman]

no the worst thing is you have given the goverment what 75% of that figure in tax etc !! well keep it up your doing a good job !!! ha ha ha

For unleaded petrol;
the Fuel duty is 60.97p
the Vat is 23p
60.97+23 = 83.97p

The retail price is 140p

How is 83.97p 75% of 140p?

 

[mika]

If Dallas is 5000 miles from London (4750 so some say) and the fuel bill was £5000

then my C63 shapes up quite well having done 30,000 miles for say £10,000

...i think ( i will get my "double maths" son to check that when he gets in ) unless DM can oblige!

even better if its £50,000 ...a frugal C63 whatever next

 

[Dieselman]

If Dallas is 5000 miles from London (4750 so some say) and the fuel bill was £5000

then my C63 shapes up quite well having done 30,000 miles for say £10,000

...i think ( i will get my "double maths" son to check that when he gets in ) unless DM can oblige!

even better if its £50,000 ...a frugal C63 whatever next

One that can go 5000 miles at 565mph.

I hope you've got in car TV...I think your 4 passengers might get a bit bored non stop to Dallas.


How many trips will you have to do to ferry all 660 passengers?

30k miles to £10k is (as I'm sure you know) 30p per mile.
Lets be generous and say you have been a taxi driver with 3 passengers on board for all those miles, so it 10p per passenger mile...at ~40mph average.

Now lets look at the 747...
4750 miles and £50k gives £10.52 per mile.

...But the plane flies nearly full for all journeys so £10.52/660 = 0.15p per passenger mile at 565 mph.

not looking so good...

 

[mika]

haha ! brilliant !

even with a delimit i'll be a few mph short
no tv
who said ive got four friends !

agree its not looking so good....

 

[therogg]

its a rough guess , !!!!! its gone up more while you where working that out lol , !! very good i am impressed ! bet you work at the coop !!

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

A fact that shocked me yesterday was that only in 2006 the fuel price was 89p.... now its pushing £1.50 just 6 years later... amazing.

In fact I recall it being touch and go as to whether a member of this forum would be true to his word and dance naked on the Town Hall steps as the petrol price dipped to 80p per litre.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

In fact I recall it being touch and go as to whether a member of this forum would be true to his word and dance naked on the Town Hall steps as the petrol price dipped to 80p per litre.

Just searched: Coupe deville in fact!!

As recently as Jan 2009: 81.9p litres

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/694487-post48.html

 

[Shude]

For my car at nearly 115000 miles, over nearly 11 years, at 5.5 miles per litre (25mpg) and an average of £1.12 per litre ((then+now)/2) comes to £23.4k.

Not bad really! The depreciation is at least twice that much.

 

[Biglips]

For my car at nearly 115000 miles, over nearly 11 years, at 5.5 miles per litre (25mpg) and an average of £1.12 per litre ((then+now)/2) comes to £23.4k.

Not bad really! The depreciation is at least twice that much.

25mpg? You are clearly not driving your car how AMG intended!!!!

 

[Shude]

25mpg? You are clearly not driving your car how AMG intended!!!!

I'd love to but sadly slower things tend to get in the way! Unless I have a clear run I tend to take it easy, there is usually another queue around the corner!

The CLK55 isn't bad on juice tbh.

 

[Aerialmark]

Seeing you are quoting figures last year I went to Manchester airport 1,163 times and never flew anywhere

 

[BillyW124]

A fact that shocked me yesterday was that only in 2006 the fuel price was 89p.... now its pushing £1.50 just 6 years later... amazing.

I remember when my mother used to drive me about, unleaded was 45p!

 

[tali]

All the stats here
Petrol Prices

and here
http://www.staveleyhead.co.uk/utilities/petrol-prices/

 

[Shude]

25mpg? You are clearly not driving your car how AMG intended!!!!

I'd love to but sadly slower things tend to get in the way! Unless I have a clear run I tend to take it easy, there is usually another queue around the corner!

The CLK55 isn't bad on juice tbh.

This is a phone-pic of my instrument cluster after my evening commute home last night. I should add that this was a 75% motorway trip, I didn't bust 70mph at any point and there is a 50-section during the roadworks on the M6.

This is exceptional though as traffic was fairly light, I typically get around 26-27mpg when there is more stop-start.

 

[mika]

when i started driving i remember petrol was 69p a gallon - 4 star of course
my friends and i used to have a whip round gather a few quid and drive off happily for the afternoon
(not in an AMG)

 

[LESTAYLOR]

25p a gallon of 4star then rationing books and this was in the mid 70's