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Old 12-01-2015, 02:36 PM   #109
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
One possible reason for the difference is that petrol (gasoline) has always been much, MUCH more expensive in the UK than the US, and manual cars are significantly more fuel efficient than automatics. Efficiency is a big factor in choice of cars here for most people.

We're currently paying about £1.10 per litre for petrol, which is about $6.30 per US gallon. A year or so ago it was about £1.35 a litre, or $7.70 a gallon.
Harry with the newer auto transmissions that we have now at least on the open road they are getting better fuel efficiency than the manual transmissions. We are see 8 and 9 speed automatics and in a lot of the cars with them they are not even able to sale manual transmissions due to the lower efficiency.
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