gas prices (kinda OT)

In Holland, gasoline is about EUR 1.30 a liter, which is $1.57. (Incidentally, that's almost $6.00 to the gallon)

Your fuel consumption is fair for commuting. If it is a manual and you take it on the open road and keep it steady below 120km/h, you should be able to get almost 9l/100km. If not, have it dyno tuned. It improved my power and consumption by 15%. Ignition timing was too retarded.

Your gas price seems a bit high already, in South Africa it is currently still under $1 per litre.

MW

well

the car is stick...i drive it normally, sometimes fast. so 11-12 is what I expected. On open road about 10. but....you mentioned retarded ignition...usually when i start my car...first just insert key and turn it for control check and lights, when i start it - it usually takes him 2 seconds to start...i find that a bit retarded, every other car i had, started immediatelly when i turned the key to ignition...

any advices?

Depends on what place in holland, where i live: ?1.39,9 (?1,40) btw my 325 e36 driver 10L/100Km

1 US$ litre. Country: Chile.

10Lt/100Km

10l/100 is ok. If you want to get better than that with a 320 e30, you need to be a very economical driver. Most people just can't do it!

Don't bother with a dyno if you can still get that kind of consumption. My best was 11.5l/100 before the dyno.

Fast ignition timing, will give you better consumption and power at speed, but will cause pinging when you pull away with low revs. This does not bother me. If your timing is retarded, you get a nice pull away with no pinging but the engine has no power at high revs. That was my experience with my 320 at least.

Regards MW

Which gallon? (I suppose I could work it out from your numbers...)

DAS

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Looks like the US gallon (3.785 liter).

Pete

Southern California. As of 6-20 (my last fill) It was $2.399/gallon. or, $0.633/liter. I think that comes out to 0.529 EUR per Liter. Yeah, and Americans STILL bitch about "skyrocketing fuel prices!" I think we are just spoiled. Then again, everyone here has to have the biggest SUV or truck on the market.

I dunno. I'm satisfied with my engine's strength at both low and high rpms. it's a 1988, and i managed to drive it about 205kmh a couple of weeks ago, and I find it fast for a 320i.

And about pinging - you mean like little pulls during low revs? it only happens to me just when i start the car, for the first 5-6 seconds i drive off. after that, it drives normally.

Tomorrow I will maybe sell the car. I'm gonna go to the car fair (like a big selling yard) and if I get more money than I paid for (possible 'cause i bought it *very* cheaply), I'm gonna sell it and buy an e34. (525 hopefully)

sorry for the offtopic.

Filip

Yeah, and

my thoughts EXACTLY :)) man, you must have the biggest SUVs in the world! I once saw a Dodge Ram, I couldn't believe that it's actually a "normal car" there (us) :))

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Poland, 1 euro/L but I've LPG installation so I pay 0,425 eurocents/L

I've the same car, consumption in the city:14 (lpg) outside the city;10-11 lpg and I do not drive slowly;)

we have to remember that car with lpg has about 20% bigger consumption than on normal fuel Anax

Parents will GIVE a Dodge ram 4x4 to their 16 year old kid here as soon as they get their license. A mother will drive a Ford Excursion with two kids in the back to soccer practice. Its crazy! I would love to see some report come out to show the national average fuel economy for the countries around the world. Then, when the US comes in at the very bottom of the list with

12mpg or less, then the American Public MIGHT change a little (as the rest of the world laughs at us!) Yes, I have a Dodge Dakota, Yes, it has a 5.2 liter V8, I drive it about 2000 miles a year.The other 10,000 miles take place on a motorcycle.

Be thankful for those of us that don't live in Norway and have to pay the last I heard $6.67 a gallon!

I"ve always been anti-smart but..................

How trendy to bash US drivers because there are a fraction that waste fuel. Can you say - Generalization?

I am 100% certain that the average US driver does not get 12 mpg. I mean come-on, I get that if I drive my Explorer w/ 5.0L V8 pulling my boat trailer, which is almost all the mileage that car gets. The rest of the time I drive one of my cars, which all get 24 mpg or better.

Are there people in the US that drive gigantic SUVs everyday. No doubt there are... but (thankfully) they are a small minority.

If anyone really wanted to see signs of fuel gluttony, look around you at all of the other vehicles, even the 40mpg "econo-boxes" the next time you are in your daily commute. Almost every one of those cars has a single person in it. Even a Dodge Ram can get better efficiency than a one of the ultra mileage economy cars if we haul 3 or 4 people in one.

But I personally probably use less fuel than 98% of vehicle owners worldwide, and I'm a motorhead auto enthusiast. How so? My commute is via the internet. I don't even have to share the fuel use that the bus or commuter train burns.

-Fred W

under LPG i presume you're speakin about liquid gas, the one that comes in those orange iron bottles and is used for stoves...of course, the one you use in your car is specially modified installation for cars. it consumes about a liter more, but that liter is almost twice as cheaper than regular gas.

Here flip, this one is for you! This is what a typical parking lot looks like. the Groceries store, the local High school, College, doesn't matter. I took this pic in the Disneyland Parking lot. Every row looked just about like that.

If I could, I would walk to work. As for your comment about the dodge ram getting better mileage per person, basically (if they car pooled) Well, I will take that one even further. The 22 freeway (near my house) is serving about 200,000 cars per day, and most of them, as you say, have one person in them. If all the commuters shared their car with one other person, then there would be close to half that number of cars on the freeway, That would be that many fewer cars to fill the freeway and that much less traffic. With the less traffic, there is a higher average speed. going from an average of

30 mph to 60 mph, the cars would be able to run at a steady speed (which is more fuel efficient) and the cars would be able to run in over drive, running the engine at a lower RPM for its speed, compared to 30... My truck for example, it has the in car gas mileage read out, at 30 mph, I get about 8-10 mpg, if I am going 65, I get 16-18 mpg. Come to OC some time, Yes, there are a lot of smaller economy-type cars, but I would say the trucks and SUV are the majority here.

What kind of range do you get on a fill? how easy is it to find a filling station for it?