Miata Mailing List: February 1994, Message #123
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   From: tkacik@adtaz.sps.mot.com (Thomas Tkacik)
Subject: Re: AutoGids article
   Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 10:38:52 -0500


Piet RUYSSINCK writes:
>Well, my personal average is about 8 liters of unleaded fuel (95 octane) per 100 kilometers.
>That should be around 29.4 mpg if my calculations are correct.

Why such high octane?  In the US. we use 87 octane, and the highest I've seen is
about 93 octane.  Are octane ratings higher in Europe than in the US?

Tom Tkacik
tkacik@adtaz.sps.mot.com