Safe Speed Forums

In the good old days, when people knew how to travel properly, One used to have a "Ships sweap"! The idea was that you had a compitician whereby the passangers would place bets on how far the ship would travel over the next 24 hours.

Well, heres mine.

The Ship...

1994 Landcruiser 80 4.2TD (12 Valve, no bothersome electronics!) GVW somewhere around 2 1/4 tons (and a bit! Was carrieing a replacement engine in the back for one of my other vehicles. Looked like a box of kleenex in a shopping trolly! )

Distance covererd, just under 400 miles round trip.

Now, bearing in mind that this is the absolute classic baby eating 4X4 gas guzzler!

Anybody care to guess what the round trip fuel consumption was for this (admittadly mostly motorway/trunk road with no hold ups) journey??

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"The road to a police state is paved with public safety legislation"

32MPG so 12/13 gallons?

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

7 miles per litre.

It is "sweep" by the way not "sweap"

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