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50-60 miles per U.K. gallon. Or 11-13 miles per litre.

20 miles per us gallon is terrible, but it’s more like 25 miles per U.K. gallon, which isn’t much below what by 1984 Nissan mid sized car used to get 27 years ago.

I tend to use 45mpg/10mpl now, as both my old micra and my newer Skoda got about that. That’s about 37mpg (us).

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I had an automatic Micra (2016). It was a gas guzzler in the city, striking at 10l/100km at times. When shopping for a car to replace it, I did check out the 5 speed manual version. That stupidly asks you to rev 3000 RPM in 5th gear at 100 km/h. There is a 6th gear missing there, or a taller fifth: oops, fail! And they thought that someone who wants a manual car won't be needing air conditioning or power windows, etc. the idiotic, outdated thinking that the manual transmission is just an ingredient in making the cheapest possible version of the car, and not somehing that is a special feature to the enthusiast. Double fail ...

Manual 2005 micra which I drove until last January was reliably 6.3l/100km. No aircon but did have electric windows. And a cd player.

Manual skoda kamiq which I drove until May was about 6l/100km

Those are real “how many miles did I drive, how many litres did I put in to fill the tank” figuresc although tend not to do a lot of inner city driving - because that’s what public transports for.

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