Just made a test with my new car on motorway, and it makes around 47mpg
(imperial) by doing 70mph using the aircon. As I am just about travelling
throughout Europe I have calculated that it is about to spend 450 pounds in
a 2186 miles journey, including EuroTunnel tickets and motorway fees in
Austria and Hungary.  Quite steep compared to the flight ticket...

Anyway, I also started to be curious how much time can I save by driving
fast. So I took the speed limit in each countries, calculated the distance
in each of them and played "what if". What if going on limit, or driving
slower or higher. In a 3 hours journey from Calais to Luxembourg (which is
my first stop) I can only save 30 minutes if I constantly speeding by 20
km/h (compared to driving on the limit). Then from there to Budapest, if I
go really fast on the German motorways (around 200 km/h), then I can save
about 2 hours through the 650 km distance have to make there. That is
something significant, however, even the fact that there is no speed limit
in Germany, I have some doubt if it is possible to maintain that high speed
(someone is always in front of you or there is a construction, or there are
speed limits on bends and bridges etc... so shall we say 1 hour saving would
be realistic?

Now here is the hard part: How much extra fuel my car need for the higher
speed? I could not find any information to that. Is there any good page or
statistics for this kind of information?

Tamas
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