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Imperial gallons, I would wager that most British people aren't aware that the US gallon is different.
by pacaro 7y ago
Imperial gallons, I would wager that most British people aren't aware that the US gallon is different.
- RandallBrown 7y agoWhat kind of car is it? If it was an American car, I might expect it's US gallons.
- pacaro 7y agoMy data in the UK is nearly 20 years out of date, but historically most American car manufacturers that sold cars in the UK made market specific models. Ford is a great example of this. Even if you sell the same model, you are already making significant changes for the driver side being mirrored... I think the difference in the gallon size has often been used, wittingly or otherwise, to exaggerate the poor gas mileage of American vehicles (the "yank tank" trope in British culture)
- billpg 7y agoBut the US Gallon is currently in everyday use. The Imperial Gallon hasn't been used for decades, having long since been replaced by the litre for fuel purchases.
- pacaro 7y agoBut the US gallon has never been used in the UK, and there is a temporal continuity of usage in mpg, people like to compare across time, a discontinuity would be weird