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Re: London Show, Saturday 25th October 2025

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On 24/11/2025 20:55, David Higton wrote:
> In message <5c80e70fe9Spambin@argonet.co.uk>
>            Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Gaydon is 17 miles from my home, it takes about 20 mimutes and 0.7 gallons
>> of Petrol!
> 
> Good Grief!  What on Earth do you drive that consumes petrol at that rate?
> A planet destroyer?

I'd have been happy with that, my old red sporty contraption would have 
used about 0.94 gallons to feed its twin 9000 rpm rotors. But I needed 
something with more comfort than insane handling these days, so it had 
to go and I've now got a far more economical 5.5 litre V8 bi-turbo. As 
long as that 17 miles is on the motorway I could use as little as 0.6 of 
a gallon, otherwise that might just about get it off the driveway in the 
morning.
> I drive a quite large electric car.  

Oh, my commiserations.

> 17 miles would use roughly 5 kWh,
> which, at my average unit price, would probably cost under £1.

More like £1.25 on my tariff, but I'm happy paying under a fiver for the 
exquisite auditory accompaniment to the journey, while gliding on a 
cushion of air and leather. And of course you can't turn up at the 
British Motoring Museum without paying homage to a classic form of the 
internal combustion engine by bringing your own hand built example.

---druck

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