MPG When Towing

I'm frightened to look.  

If I cared I would get another vehicle, but it does its job well at 24 mpg towing and 38 mpg solo.

agree. my son owns his own butchers and he says that out of all his customers there is only 1 that asks for meat by the kilo, the rest by pounds ( both weight and money )

My family have butchers business the only ones that ask for pound weights are those over 55 all the young ask in kilo's. Even l do everything in imperial and then convert to kilo's and millimetre, l even workout in my head what it was in old money, sad isn't it

I am happy with a combination. Length measurements usually cms and metres, except for road distances where I use miles. Fuel, buy in litres but calculate mpg. Weight, usually kilos / grams. Liquid ml / litres, except for beer. Pressure, psi.

As far as the butcher is concerned I just point to where he should cut, or buy a number of slices, however if I was to give a weight it would be metric.

Same as Steve, it's just the unit you can imagine, like I can imagine long long it would take me to walk a mile, or drive say 60 miles (and give a good estimate towing and not towing. but would have to work out how long that would take if given in km. I can visualise and more or less accurately a draw a meter but not two feet?

When I was teaching this stuff I always started with what size telly you got then? It was quite funny to see how they bragged about who had the biggest telly but had no idea what inches really meant or looked like?. 

Also I buy stuff by the actual money value, those steaks, a full tank, or go by the pack price. I do work in metric weights though, never understood why anyone wants to work in ounces pounds and stones?

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Bring back firkins, bushels and groats, that's what I say.

I have just completed my last trip of the year from North Lancashire to the Cotswolds.  The run down on congested M6/M5, 210 miles @ 34.2 mpg.  Coming home on M5, A roads from Worcester to Warrington, M56 & M6 took about 30 minutes longer, 219 miles @ 33.9 mpg.

This is with a Euro 5 Merc C220 Cdi estate with manual gearbox towing 1,450 Kg.  My annual average towing mpg. this year is 33.14.  Last years figure was slightly better @ 33.65 with an overall average including mainly urban solo running of 40.45 mpg..  With 7 weeks still to go, I have not done the overall calculation for this year yet.

wow Chris, working out your mpg to 2 decimal points, i bet you can peel an orange in your back pocket.