newbie from new Zealand
Hi all, and thanks for the nice site.
I joined so i could post my fuel usage, and hopefully pick up a few more tips on reducing it. The Ford Falcon is built in Australia, is a great car and can go forever on a tankful. Next thing for me is to convert a few of my numbers (litres and km over here) and get some logs going. thanks, Duncan |
Welcome to ecomodder! Could I ask for a picture? I've never heard of the falcon before.
|
[IMG]/home/dunc3/Photos/2000/01/01/pict0020.jpg[/IMG] and http:///home/dunc3/Photos/2000/01/01/pict0021.jpg Its a large car for NZ, weighs 1650kg (not sure what pounds), but is light for its size. I can get 540km on 60 liters (longer holiday trip) - sorry have not converted any of this to mpg yet - i guess i need to use US gallons for my conversions
|
Hi Duncan - welcome to the site. And congrats on being the first NZ member! (I think.)
Darin |
doh - i should have realized those links wouldn't work - this may be a better place to see some action shots of the mighty falcon....
|
Welcome to the forum!
|
i just did some calculations to get USmpg , and posted to con (my falCON) - can someone check my spreadsheet and confirm my calculations/conversions? Hope you can see it....
|
Hello,
Here's a program (for Windows) called Convert, and it really can convert any unit to any other unit: http://joshmadison.com/article/convert-for-windows/ 18mpg, huh? You have some room for improvement! :) That's a big car for New Zealand! When I was there (in 1982) with my family, the big cars were Volvos. My family are all over 6', so we rented a Toyota van. |
thanks Neil - i was just trying to get a handle on the mpg numbers you all use on this site - are they US gallons or UK gallons - the conversion i used for liters to US gallons is 0.264172 - does this sound right? I have windoze installed somewhere on so will try it out
|
Hi Duncan, I'm a n00b from just across the river in Aus and born in NZ (christchurch).
Good to see someone else in our hemisphere on here. Here in Aus people are still a bit stupid about fuel I think... every 2nd car is a V8 and we complain about paying AU$1.70/L, I believe you guys are over NZ$2/L now? As for your conversion dilemma, the great god Google has us covered, you can simply key in your 'equation' as a search, such as "540km/60L in mpg": http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=e...m%2F60L+in+mpg And Google will tell you: "(540 km) / (60 L) = 21.1693125 miles per gallon" I don't know if that is US or UK gallon, changing the google locale (using google.com instead of .com.au) doesn't seem to have any effect. 21mpg seems more reasonable than 16mpg (edit: ignore that, I read your spreadsheet wrong) for a falcon though... surely our cars are not _that_ bad? hahah. |
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 02:07 AM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Content Relevant URLs by vBSEO 3.5.2
All content copyright EcoModder.com