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Posted by Gavin on April 12, 2002 at 02:15:38:

In Reply to: Re: Explanation for Car & Driver / Jag discre posted by chris on April 11, 2002 at 15:24:16:


Well, your cheapest gas is 2 octane higher than our best...And, since prices have gone up ($1.99/gal), I may as well just move to europe...you guys get better cars, better gas, have better music, better working schedules, health care...And you're Bush-less!!!
So Jealous...!

Since we are talking about octane here, what is the octane in europe? I wonder if Jaguar tests their cars with the nice high-octane premium that europe gets (103, I think), yet C&D may have tested the car stateside, possibly in CA where we only get 91....Perhaps the engine electronics are that tuned to the octane...?


Here in Belgium I can get 95 97 or 99 octane. Don't think I've seen anything as high as 103. Uk is 95 and 99 I think but I don't drive much there.



unfortunately we also pay about a dollar per litre and quite a few countries here have rediculously high taxes on cars. Denmark for example has 180 per cent tax plus 25 per cent vat!

a loaded three litre x-type on Danish plates thus costs just under 100.000 dollars!

Gavin

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