Date   : Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:08:19 +0000
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: [OT] Who'da thought...

Mark Usher wrote:
>> > The Rover 618 I've been lent/given does 18MPG on a good day...
>> > ?120 in petrol Sheffield -> Tarland, have to fill the tank twice.
>
> That does sound very broken.

I got it from my exwife, who never looked after it. First thing I'm
going to do with it now is get it properly serviced.

> be getting at least 30 mpg, especially doing motorway miles - unless of
> course you are still driving around in 2nd gear all the time ;-)

It's an automatic, and no, of course I haven't been doing any motorway
miles, I've had L-plates on it until today ;)

However, most of the A90, the A720 Edinburgh bypass and the A1 east
of Edinburgh is D3M.

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