Thread: RRC v Cruiser fuel usage

Originally Posted by BigJon

You travel at 42 kph on the open road?

You don't use maths?

Originally Posted by BigJon

You travel at 42 kph on the open road?

Certainly don't! - not even around town... (got the roadside portraits to prove it )

Point is/was, stopping 5 more times than the diesel, means 25 minutes lost, which you can't make up by chasing him... 'cos you won't break the speed-limit.... Not many of us can limit a stop to 'only' 5 minutes, especially if you have family on board.

Stopping 3 times more means 15 minutes behind = 24km behind.

Apologies, should have used more words to make it clearer...

My own example:-
On a 1:45 hour country trip driving a 100+km/h Coach, the same can be done in 1:50 ~1:55 in another, differantly geared bus limited to 87km/h. Hills are involved...

Disclaimer:- I muchly prefer the sound and 'inexorableness' of a diesel engine, to the poncy 'hundred firings per revolution' noise that is the background to the v-8 rumble, which I find annoying. ! - Have driven too many perfectly balanced 6 cyl. engines that simply purrrrrr......