Since everyone has been complaining about gas/petrol prices recently. How much are you paying for this dead dinosaur juice in your neck of the woods?
Its 1.90 Cad per litre here, that is with the govt waiving the tax. It cost around 200 to fill up the Yukon. Heating and electricity costs are going up also. My wife is not a very economical driver, the air was low in the tires, when I picked them up at the airport. Yukon shifts to V4 while cruising and due to low air pressure, it was constantly in V8. When I drove the truck, it used to be 11L/100k, for her it was 13.7L/100K. There are ways to drive economically.
I am on the road right now. Just put gas in my car a few minutes ago. Paid 50 bucks though I still had about a quarter left. I have paid more than that (close to $60), too. Ouch.
it’s called cylinder deactivation and GM came up with it back in the 70’s during the fuel shortages crisis. Basically, it will deactivate cylinders 1, 4, 6 & 7 on speeds of over 70 mph (120 km/h). Regardless, all Yukon/Tahoe/Escalade do terrible gas mileage. If I were you, I’d switch to Ford Expedition, the V6 is fantastic.
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I am on the road right now. Just put gas in my car a few minutes ago. Paid 50 bucks though I still had about a quarter left. I have paid more than that (close to $60), too. Ouch.
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I pay the equivalent of about $50 for a full tank of gas, which is about a little over 36 gallons (138 liters), 24 gallon (93 liters) main tank and a 12 gallon (45 liters) auxiliary tank. Premium gas costs roughly about $1.30/gallon here.
We go to mountains camping and stuff, if it rains, we sleep in it. 11litres/100k is not bad. We also have 4 other cars so don’t use Yukon that much anymore. We also right off our gas.
It’s also very sus. EPA suggests an average of 15 mpg in the combined cycle, which works out to about 16 liters/100 km, unless 90% of your driving is done on the highway at a steady speed and in top gear, in which case, how boring is your commute?
Yes. Our city has a freeway that covers 90 percent of our driving. We are a very thinly populated country. Our highways are most scenic in the world. I think we are larger than Europe with 34mill population
Still a very boring commute. Canada has some nice mountain passes and equally thrilling back roads, designed for car enthusiasts. Don’t know why I thought you’d ever be driving on them, lol.
I absolutely love my hybrid accord these days. Currently its giving 55+ mpg so its a blessing. However its fuel tank is small so it takes around 11 gallon to fiill up i.e. 50 bucks and change.
Now i've another SUV truck and that eats a lot but these days i only drive it for local routes otherwise mostly relying on the sedan. The truck fills up in around 85 bucks.
My cousin was visiting last week and rented a grand charokee Jeep. Man I love this car. Anyhow he filled in the tank for 124 bucks before returning but Jeep's tank is much bigger so thats that.
I don’t camp or hike. I drive, that’s what gets my adrenaline pumping. Going through the gears of a well built 6 speed is pure bliss. The kind a lake or some trees simply cannot be an alternative to.
So you guys are still around $5/gallon in New York? I heard Californians is paying closer to $7/gallon.
Understandable, Physical activity is not everyone’s cup of tea. Hence the 600 percent more probability of becoming a diabetic. With speed limits at 110Km/h how many gears are we changing here…lol.
Except I limit my physical activities to the gym and play a ton of sports. I’m not a lake and tree kinda guy. If I want fresh air, I go to the beach after Fajr. You see Bobby, judging someone just because they don’t follow your ideals is just plain ignorant.
I have what is called a grade A competition license which is required for participation in sanctioned FIA motorsports events. it requires me to be at my peak physical fitness levels at all times.
You should look up workout routines for racing drivers. We have to train our bodies to cope with up to 3.5g’s of sustained lateral loads, be it during braking, accelerating or taking a corner, and more than 1.5g’s of radial loads when clipping an apex. These kind of forces would turn your spinal disc’s into minced meat. 3.5g’s will also do a serious number on your neck and back when sustained over a 2 to 4 hour stint while maintaining 100% spatial awareness and quick response times.
Most twisties don’t have speed limits, but we still respect other motorists on the road and only go out when its early in the morning and there aren’t any other drivers on the road. We usually have spotters covering both ends of a road to make sure that if a vehicle is spotted coming our way, that we do not engage in any fast paced driving.
When in Kuwait, we just go to our local circuit for track days, which is grade 1 certified by the FIA, which means that it is capable of holding a Formula 1 race. The start/finish straight on the circuit is more than a mile long, and depending on the type of car, you can reach speeds in excess of 320 km/h quite easily.
If this keeps up, the SUV craze is going to die out pretty fast. The market for SUV’s has been hot during the last few years, with almost every manufacturer coming up with one. The Cayenne single-handedly saved Porsche from going under back in the '00’s.
It is nice to have hobbies and passions, I encourage my boys to do that. People come and go and your hobbies will mitigate the emotional damage. Whenever I get hurt, I go hiking. Although race car drivers need to be fairly fit, however, they are not athletes. Real athletes are gods, beyond a normal humans imagination. Every single one of my athletes in my club can run marathons, boys do average 40 chinups. I think Kayakers are the fittest athletes.
LMAO! Typical bullsh!t non-motorsports types throw around. As I said, look up top class racing driver workout routines, aap ki phatt ke haath may aajae gi. These racing drivers (not including my amateur self) are pure bred athletes, they have reaction times of fighter pilots and the physical strength of an Olympic sprinter. What rock are you living under?
You are so petty man, it’s just sad.
I don’t know much about the sport however read on the net that 2 out of 6 top racers are fairly unfit. 1 was Newman. I guess the same rock as the journalist who wrote the article.
Man, I don’t know where you get your news from. And, if you’re talking about NASCAR, its not even real motorsports. That’s just a bunch of overweight Americans getting together to drive their cars relatively fast around an oval track, going round and round in an infinite loop.
During the Canadian grand prix that was held this past week in Montreal. Danica Patrick, a former NASCAR & IndyCar driver, was a guest commentator on Sky Sports, and I’ve never seen anybody so out of their elements as she was, standing amongst titans of F1 such as Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso.
Americans are excellent at building machinery, their aircrafts are the best in the world. I’ve been around F22’s at airshows and I’ve seen them do fly-by’s at full throttle. Those things can put the fear of God in the soul of even the most devout atheists. But they couldn’t build a half decent car, or race around anything other than an oval track, even if their life depended on it. And if all you have to do is mash your throttle and turn your steering wheel slightly to the left, then you don’t need to be physically fit, just mentally unstable.
Lastly, Which Newman are you talking about? Paul Newman has been dead for the better part of a decade. He wasn’t even a proper racing driver, he was friggin’ Butch from Butch Cassidy & the Sundance kid!