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Litres/100km is the most logic way, at least in my opinion.
Where does this miles per gallon come originally?
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It's more helpful than hogsheads per furlong?
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People complained that cars didn't get anywhere near the rated fuel economy. So EPA tweaked their numbers buy running the CAFE numbers through an equation to get a more realistic number. It was still high and people still complained. This cycle has repeated over the past 4 decades so that today the combined fuel economy on the window sticker is about 25% lower than CAFE.
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The tyranny of low expectations.