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No, 5 speed manual. Optimax is a relatively new petrol in Oz - costs 7c/litre more, but has the 98 Octane rating and a lot of 'get-up-& go' It's really good stuff as it gives more performance, better fuel consumption, more responsive engine - and claimed to clean your engine by eliminating carbon build-up and have much cleaner exhaust emmissions. I'm currently doing a fuel consumption test - 5 tanks of this new Shell Optimax - get the average - then 5 tanks of normal unleaded (92 Octane rating) to get a good comparison of fuel consumption between the 2. If anyones interested - I'll email them the results. Also.....ooooooops. Make that 21 mpg for my fuel figures below. I forgot about the US Gallon differnce - I was using UK gallons. In any case - it's 11.2 litres / 100 km. BTW - just out of interest - how much is petrol in Canada? In USA? Ours has just shot from abot 75 cents per litre to the present $1/litre in the past 7 months!!!!! David Del Ben 85 - 1.9 Vanagon -----Original Message----- From: Dan Landry [SMTP:landry_skidd@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 7:24 AM To: ddelben@airinter.com.au Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: RE: petrol consumption Hello, Is your's an automatic? We are in Canada - but still can't get 98. Highest I can put in is 94, which I do. No fuel additives but engine is treated very kindly Danl Bedford, Nova Scotia
----Original Message Follows---- From: David Del Ben <ddelben@airinter.com.au> Reply-To: "ddelben@airinter.com.au" <ddelben@airinter.com.au> To: "'Dan Landry'" <landry_skidd@hotmail.com>, "vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM" <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Subject: RE: petrol consumption Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 09:48:43 +1100 Sorry Bud, I consistently get approx. 11.2 l/100km [25.2 MPG] in combined highway/city driving. By: Using Optimax high octane (98) unleaded - do you have that in USA? Nulon Engine treatment Kid glove treatment of car David Del Ben 85 - 1.9 Vanagon
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