US Rental car

[jaymanek]

I always wondered how that works... even in the states the RON ratings seem to be a lot lower yet performance cars seem fine on it.

 

[flango]

I always wondered how that works... even in the states the RON ratings seem to be a lot lower yet performance cars seem fine on it.

The numbers on US pumps aren't RON ratings they are the average of the RON and MON ratings so when you see 90 on a USA pump that's the equivalent of our 95 RON unleaded

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[Meldrew2]

I know, it's hard to tell the two places apart. Particularly for someone with your ageing eyesight

Both have copious amounts of sun so I understand the confusion .

Come Thursday, when I have that wonderful return journey to enjoy (all the better when you've in that lovely 'coming home' feeling ) I'm going to wish I was as close to home as Benidorm is!

To be accurate, Benidorm has copious amounts of sun readers…

 

[Deadhead]

Two weeks in California in June. San Francisco, Sausalito, Yosemite, Bodie, Bishop, Death Valley, Vegas (never again), Palm Springs, Salton Sea, San Diego, Morro Bay, Monterrey. Thought we'd be clever and save a couple of days car hire by picking up our car in downtown San Francisco at the end of our three nights there. The thing is though there's not much choice (at least with Alamo) in a downtown multi-storey and we ended up with a Ford Edge. Next time we'll go back out to the airport and pick a car up from there.

 

[blue gnome123]

Interesting about the US petrol numbers - I didn't know that. Their AKI numbers are 4-6 lower than Ron. That makes my 87 US AKI, 91-93RON. At 93RON you probably aren't going to notice too much difference to UK 95RON.

Although at 10,000ft on Maui the 'stang needed all the RON it would get. The mountain road could have been a great drive if it wasn't limited to 15-30mph speed limits.