My Favorite Serious Game: Prius really made me chuckle.
Anyone who knows me even a little will agree that I am a petrolhead, through and through. I simply love engines, power, speed and the freedom that cars gave the world a hundred years ago. They are the greatest invention for the common man, I know that is an exaggeration but to a petrol head it rings true. For years I charged around in fast cars and bikes and generally helped a great deal to ruin the planet.
My last stab at global warming was my old work car, a 185mph Audi S8. 4.2 litres of burbling V8 packing nearly 350bhp. This was how I traveled the 3 miles to work, at 15mpg. It’s not clever, responsible and with petrol now touching £6 a gallon it’s also none too bright.
Last year I changed my car and got a puny 3.0 diesel Audi and rather than flying around everywhere at mach 1 I started playing a game. The MPG game, the Audi A8 is a little special considering it’s size and I manage to get over 45mpg on most journeys. Better than that I also tow my race car with it….the old V8 struggled to get over 15mpg at (ahem) decent towing speeds yet the new one sees nearly 30mpg when I am towing 2 tonnes of trailer and race car.
Whilst I don’t have the rather natty display that the Toyota has I do have a selection of mpg-based computers telling what I am doing and how many miles to the next fuel stop. My crowning glory was a moment a few months back where the computer told me I had another 930 miles in the tank and I had traveled over 80 since the last fill. Am I sad? Yes, probably. But I am using far less fuel, drive far better.
Signed,
An ex-petrolhead 