Wow, those are still very good fuel consumption stats in my book, especially while towing.
"Yep, I'm all going for lightweight these days. Lightweight boat, lightweight car, lightweight women !"
Wouter, when you`re done with the car you can send it off to me. The boat too. Oh, and that crewmember that appears in some of your pics would also do nicely

Anyway I intended to say 12 km/liter, that is what I get when towing the stacked trailer at 100-110 km/h.




I just looked up that a gallon is 3.78 liters The speed of 100 km/hr. is about 62 miles per hour. That 3.78 liters will take you 45 km. (45 km./gal.) or 28 miles per gal.

Those numbers don't sound unrealistic. Your 15 km./liter is 35 miles per gallon. Also reasonable. I drive a 240D MB that I get 31 miles per gallon at highway speed of 65 miles per hour. That is 105 kph.

Conversions are always a problem. In Canada they use the Imperial gallon which is about 5 liters. In weight, there is the metric ton. the English ton and the American ton They are 2204 lbs., 2240 lbs., and 2000lbs. respectively.

Howard

I tow a Tiger or two with a Commodore. It has a 350 chev and will drag just about anything. The challenge is finding a servo in time

The photo was taken during a recent trip to perth. We had just driven 20 hours and was filling up for fuel on the Aussie Bite at around 7:00 am. (from memory)

My experience from a *lot* of towing is that the weight on long trips is not the issue. Moreso, the windage and lack of aero it the bit that causes the dramas. My car will do 17 l/100km at 100 km/h but increases to about 20 at 110 km/h and increases exponentially from there.

Tiger Mike

We don't often pull boats very far with it, but Mary and I have a 1990 Honda Civic that gets 49 mpg around town. We used to go to regattas in the early 80s with a VW Rabbit PU with a cap and it got 60mpg. But pulling the Hobie 18 it was hard to get it in high gear unless drafting behind a truck.
Going north to our summer home last spring, Mary was pulling 3 Waves with the Honda Odyssy and got 30 mpg.

The RV gets 10 mpg diesel fuel no matter what it is pulling.
Not enought to warrant staying away from a regatta.
Rick

Ditto Rick, We're changing from a Blazer (ultimate gas hog) to a mini-van this year to increase mileage by about 30%. Planning on 10 regattas, two of which are 7 1/2 hours one way from our home. We're also planning on dragging some newbies along to the closer events. The sailors with a passion will still show up, it's all relative to what you want to spend your money on. Is it fuel or dish network?

Flatlander, rip all the seats out of the mini-van and you can sleep in the back, Thats what us good Dutchman do to save money on Hotel costs. I've been doing that for years whenever I traveled to Round the Bay or the Steeplechase in Ohio.

I miss the Round the Bay race, Mike did a great job. Wished someone on that side of MI/OH would have picked it up.