Hi, That's good mileage (kilometerage?). We did a shorter version of your trip: Vancouver - Hope - Coquihalla Hwy - Merritt - Kelowna - Vernon then return Vernon - Kamloops - Nicola Valley -- Coq Hwy - Hope
- Vancouver. Round trip about 1,000 km.
Average consumption 6.25 litres/100 km. That's 45.2 miles per Imperial gallon or 37.2 miles per US gallon.
The car: 1990 Golf 1.8L Stock GX SOHC with 143,000 km on clock. Back in 1990 you could order a car from the factory. I spec'd it with factory cruise control as only option. No air conditioning, no power steering, no power brakes.
Cruising speed of 105 km/hr also. Return trip fully loaded with family and 10 cases of canned Okanagan fruit plus luggage. Mud flaps dragging on speed bumps in our alley way!!
PS. Any relation to the Hallidays of Kingcome Inlet? PS2. ICBM?? Coordinates for inter continental ballistic missle?
-Tony
I just got back from a week off, driving around B.C
>in my 1986 Jetta (SOHC gas 1.8 engine, about 270,000 km
>on the odometer). The final numbers:
>
> Distance driven: 2043.1 km
> Fuel used: 130.113 litres
>
> Fuel consumption: 6.37 litres/100 km
>
>I have no complaints. :-)
>
>In case you're curious (get out your map of B.C.),
>I drove Vancouver to Hope on Highway 1, Hope to
>Osoyoos on Highway 3
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Osoyoos>through Penticton to Kelowna on Highway 97, on to>Merritt on Highway 97C, to Spences Bridge on Highway 8,>then Highway 1 to Cache Creek and Highway 97 to>Quesnel. My return trip was Highway 97 to Cache Creek,>then Highway 1 to Vancouver. Typical cruising speed>105 klicks. The speed limit is 100 on most main>highways in B.C. It's 110 on a few roads.>
>I wouldn't have minded having air conditioning on this
>trip - it was 40 in Osoyoos, 38 in Penticton, and mid-
>to-high 30s most of the rest of the trip.
>
>Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
>Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..."
>ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte
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