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Interesting discussion.
Here we changed from the Imperial Miles Per Imperial Gallon to litrs/100 kms a number of years ago.
Basically people just changed over and now metric measurement is the norm.
A few rallied against the change but the general bulk of the population just made the adjustment.
The perception now is any vehicle in double numbers ( ie: 10 ltrs/ 100 kms) is pretty poor fuel efficiency and anything below is relatively good.
Anything around 5 is worth talking about and somewhere around 7.5 is still worth talking about but the bragging rights are not quite as prestigious.
Speaking of bragging rights I had a Prius driver pull in next to me on a highway service centre (gas station) recently.
The car was brand new and the driver was obviously desperate to tell someone ( other than the passengers he had who seemed bored to tears with it all going by their looks when he mentioned it. One rolled her eyes skyward when he began talking to me) about the "fantastic fuel economy" of his hybrid.
I was sitting drinking coffee and had the window down.
Prius driver's comments were along the lines of "my wiz bang hi tech enviro car gets seven (7.0 litres / 100 kms). Beat the hell out of your dinosaur I'll bet".
I tap the trip computer on my car and bring up my average for the trip : 6.5.
Prius driver accuses me of "rigging the display" and was very upset indeed.
Oh dear how sad never mind.
Pete.
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