Comment Top Gear had an interesting experiment (Score 1) 403
Top Gear had an interesting experiment where they raced a Prius against a BMW M3. But what they did was have the Prius go all out and the M3 just paced it. Then they measured the actual gas consumed and found that the BMW had better mileage under those circumstances.
Some time ago I had a big old V8 car and I could pretty much halve my mileage simply by being only somewhat more aggressive. City driving would also send that car's mileage into a tailspin. The rated mileage was around 23/18Mpg but I would say that with gentle highway driving I could do 23 but with typical city driving it might have been below 12.
So what I would like to see for a metric would be something similar to the Top Gear scenario; basically they would drive the car around a test track at three(light, normal, and lead foot) given sets of reasonable accelerations, braking, speeds, etc and then tell us the consumption rate. Then we could compare apples to apples when buying cars.
Some time ago I had a big old V8 car and I could pretty much halve my mileage simply by being only somewhat more aggressive. City driving would also send that car's mileage into a tailspin. The rated mileage was around 23/18Mpg but I would say that with gentle highway driving I could do 23 but with typical city driving it might have been below 12.
So what I would like to see for a metric would be something similar to the Top Gear scenario; basically they would drive the car around a test track at three(light, normal, and lead foot) given sets of reasonable accelerations, braking, speeds, etc and then tell us the consumption rate. Then we could compare apples to apples when buying cars.