450SL - Cunsumtion of gasolin

On my 78 450sl over 1000 miles combined city highway gives 15.666 MPG. My

300DT gives me 26.435 over 1000 miles. I find due to amount of variance on tank fill ups you can not get anything accurate on MPG so I take fuel usage over 100 miles.

Tom

These are thirsty cars because their engines were detuned to meet emissions regulations - compression lowered etc. As I recall US EPA mileage estimate was about 12 mpg / city and 16 mpg highway. "mpg" is miles per (US) gallon.

I can routinely get around 15 mpg combined city/highway travel (about

50% each), but that's with the spark advanced as far as the manual permits.

I'm very curious how involved it would be to substitute European version

107 series cams into a USA model 450 SL to see how that would affect mileage & performance. My understanding is that the Euro version 107's are notoriously better performers than the USA models - particularly compared to the California version like I drive.

Jerry Wolfram '78 450 SL - 211K miles

Magnus Andreass> Hi Everyone...

That's about 18 miles per Imperial gallon.

A 450SL does sound like a thirsty car anyway, to me. However, considering that my second (and fortunately last) Daewoo Lanos was only giving me 22 to the gallon, it really doesn't sound too bad.

It's a shame that de-tuning is necessary with some cars to make them US-legal.

Still, the best thing I ever did was leasing my Merc... A160 CDI (Classic SE for those interested), 2003, giving me 43 mpg (Imperial). If it carries on this way, it will have saved me a fortune by its "retirement" in December 2006.

(I am forced to retire my car after 3 years but am free to lease another one straight away.)

Wouldn't it make more sense to just use L/100KM? Drive on the RIGHT side of the road? Or are Brits just averse to Napoleon's improvements? :-)

cp

It's to compensate for all the pollution caused by the idiotic giant sized American engines.

cp

I get 12.5 MPG consistently with my '73 SLC. This is with a mix of highway and in-town driving.

Steve

Driving on the right is not an improvement, just an arbitrary decision to sort out the variations all over Europe under the Napoleonic jackboot.

We have been driving on the left, the natural side, for at least two millennia.

So there!

DAS

not to mention the strange idea of goin on the 3rd gear.. from 45km/h to 150...200?? km/h....

guess petrol was cheap those days...

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I have to say I agree with you. However, few British people do.

At least there's consistency!

:-)

cp

Dang straight!

yeh! like that schmetterling person for example! :-)

cp

In 1970, I could buy gas for 30 cents a gallon and get a free car wash or Loony Toons glass with every fill up.

:I can routinely get around 15 mpg combined city/highway travel (about :50% each), but that's with the spark advanced as far as the manual permits.

Clearly your car is possessed by the devil..

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