Why do so many Americans hate European trucks?

Yes the imperial gallon is 20% larger. Living in Canada, I saw this all the time while recently shopping for my wife's new car. The window sticker was in L/100Km but the MPG was posted in imperial gallons which I would think would be irrelevant since Canada adopted the Metric system more than three decades ago. Anything to make it appear superior without actually lying....

 

That has got to be the most inefficient ways of moving products across Europe to Asia. Seriously using trains would be 1,000x better than using trucks to ship products that far.

 

While looking for a picture of that 372(?) Peterbilt, I happened on this:



Is this a production model somewhere?

 

Feck yeah you're right, the truck did 23.29 l/100km

 

Wow good find, never seen one before, looks ok doesn't it?

 

10.10 MPG per US gal.

Respectable none the less.

 

From Wiki:

The U.S. adopted this international mile for most purposes, but retained the pre-1959 mile for some land-survey data, terming it the U.S. survey mile. In the United States, statute mile formally refers to the survey mile[citation needed], about 3.2 mm (1⁄8 inch) longer than the international mile (the international mile is exactly 0.0002% less than the U.S. survey mile).


There you go. That 1/8" has to be accounted for in any pissing contest.

 

My truck's AVG 6.36 mpg in US gallons but in Imperial gallons it is 7.63 mpg. So there is a big difference ...

 

Haha Good man bob! That's pretty thorough