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		CaptainZapp on Feb 22, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "It's A Brick" - Tesla Motors' Devastating Design ... `Euro testing cycles are more generous, MPG figures are quoted in Imperial gallons` I have never seen a MPG notation anywhere in Europe (possibly in the UK, but certainly nowhere else). Car efficiency is quoted by liters / 100 km just about everywhere around here. Or am I missing something?

to3m on Feb 22, 2012 [–]

It is only in the UK. Nobody else uses miles, and the cutoff age for using gallons is something like 40-50 (and rising).

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