Cha-ching! Fill 'er up!

[FM]

A litre here would go for, roughly, 1.30 dollars. But of course, we do not get paid in dollars!

[Anonymous Prodigy]

$1.59.

[macheteman]

man, you all in England could start a business buying gas in the usa and selling it in Europe.

[lem0nhead]

Yeah costs me about 89 pence at the moment per litre which is dirt cheap for over here. Takes me £45 to fill my 1.8 toyota celica coupe and i get about 25 mpg.

So in your terms $70 like the Jord.

[macheteman]

1.8 liter, man, small engines. all my friends laugh at how small my eclipse's 2.0 liter engine is. but i still get 25 miles to the gallon. and i can probably still beat them in a race so...

[lem0nhead]

I really like the eclipse, shame i would have to buy it on import as its not a UK car.

Americans have an amazing ability to use a huge powerful engine and get a poxy amount of power out of it, the size of some of your v8s, would produce monumental power if they were made over here. (By the way this is in no way meant to start a war of nations, but i speaketh the truth if you check generally).

On average our engines are MUCh smaller than US ones but i wouldnt discount that meaning theyre slow.

Yes we have cars that have 0.9l! And 1.2 and 1.4 are very common engine sizes, which get around 60mpg at least, and even more for diesel, but our fastest cars dont tend to have much over 3 litres. The mitsubishi lancer evo produces anywhere between 300 and 400 bhp for a 2 litre.

This is a debate ive had before though. How much bhp does your 2 litre produce mm?

[TheJord]

I know what you mean lem0n I drove a 3.5 V6 when I lived over there and it was no faster than an average Saxo

[lem0nhead]

Unfortunately Jord the average Saxo is driven by a chav so it will probably be modded to heck and be fast as #$&*@! That or just make a loud noise for no reason! Hehe.

But i get your point dude Cheers.

mm, i wanna know what bhp your eclipse produces. Any ideas?

[TheJord]

Lol you may have to explain CHAV to the masses lem0n

[macheteman]

ok "bhp" that would be, something to do with horse power?

and chav while you're at it...

[TheJord]

BHP = brake horse power

CHAV = Council Housed and Violent

[lem0nhead]

A chav is a scally or a pikey. #$&*@!, these yanks wont get this. They wear stupid hats and silly tracksuit bottoms and lots of jewellery and pimp their rides and think theyre cool when theyre total scum and losers.

Anyway.... yeah mm how much brake horse power has ur car got. That is the true measurement of how powerful a car (in relation to the weight of course) not the engine size....

U any idea?

[TheJord]

HAHAHA trying to explain chavs to Americans... I have never found it easy. Sitting around in there done up Nova's and Saxo's, blasting up and down the road with BOOM BOOM BOOM coming out the stereo... sound similar to anything in the US?

[macheteman]

haha, ok, well, its hard to say how much power my car has. its a very old eclipse, '96 with 218,000 miles on it.

but i actually have no idea how to find out how what kind of bph it has.

any ideas?

and yes, we do have tons of chavs in america, they're usually part of the ghetto. but yeah, same deal, stupid hats (they don't take the stickers off) wear lots of bling (shiny jewelry) and pimp their rides and think they're cool. TONS of sub-whoofer blasts from their cars... haha

[DáinIronfoot]

Yeah, well...well...the metric system is stupid! HA!

For the record, I cannot STAND when people "pimp out their rides" and/or blast sounds that some call "music" (I call simply "noise") to every eardrum within half a mile. If I want to listen to that crap, I'll play it myself, thank you very much. No need to drown out my good music with your misguided attempt at sounding cool. Oy.