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Subject: Re: Cost of driving in SA Posted on: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:18:42 +0000 (UTC)

On Mar 15, 8:51 am, Marc Lurie
wrote:
> Was that 10,000 miles or 10,000km?
>
> At R3000 for fuel, that would be around 500 litres. Even at 10,000km
> that sounds like extraordinarily good consumption.
>
> On 14 Mar 2007 15:58:02 -0700, "beulavill...@yahoo.com"
>
>
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> wrote:
> >I just got back from a 10K trip.
>
> >All of the gas bills that I could account for totaled R3,000.
>
> >?Can that be correct in a Renault clio with manual?
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> >Payment in CASH was a headache.
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> >Doug Clark- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

It was 10,000 km

(I have found 5 travel days with no gas purchase)

If I missed 5 fill ups at R200, then the total is R4,000.

This would put the MPG at between 35 and 40.

?Is this a reasonable MPG for the Renault in SA at the speed limit
with mainly highway travel?