USMA 20622 reported: >National Post (f/k/a The Financial Post) > >June 21, 2002 Friday Ontario Edition > >SECTION: Special Report: Driver's Edge; Road Rant; Pg. DO2 > >HEADLINE: A measure only engineers could love > >SOURCE: National Post > >BYLINE: David Menzies : >In the three-year history of Road Rant, your humble ink-stained wretch has >vented on subjects ranging from impaired drivers to left-lane bandits. > >But nothing has generated more reader response than my tirade two weeks ago >regarding the way fuel consumption is measured. (To recap: I lamented the >death of the old miles per gallon standard, which was long ago replaced by >the ghastly L/100 km benchmark.) With the exception of my engineer neighbour >Kornel Farkas, I have yet to come across someone who speaks of their >vehicle's fuel consumption using the less-is-more measurement standard of >L/100 km.
The Globe and Mail's weekly "Globe Megawheels" section reports fuel consumption solely in L/100 km Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
