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      08-31-2014, 02:45 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by PunjabiM3 View Post
If you look at his info, he lives in the UK. Their gallon is larger than the US Gallon and they have a different system to arrive at the fuel economy than the EPA of the USA.
Imperial would account for 20% of the difference, which would bring adjusted MPG to 37 MPG, EPA equivalent. There rest as, as you accurately point out, is methodology, which is far more aggressive, and not realistic in my view. They should be calling it maximum in the UK.

Did a basic converter with starting input as US MPG. Feel free to download and change. Now set to 31 mpg.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2C...it?usp=sharing
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