{"id":280,"date":"2007-04-03T10:48:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T09:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2009-01-25T21:20:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T21:20:23","slug":"a-different-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/03\/a-different-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"A different perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just seen a laughable web advert for Chevrolet cars, proudly claiming <em>&#8220;Chevy offers 8 models with 30mpg highway or better. Fuel efficiency with a choice at chevy.com&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now firstly, a little translation: 30mpg (US gallons) is 36mpg (imperial gallons) or 7.8 litres\/100km.<\/p>\n<p>It just shows how Americans view fuel efficiency if they think that 36mpg is something to shout about. It is not!<\/p>\n<p>Note that &#8216;highway&#8217; means extra-urban, not urban &#8216;about-town&#8217; traffic. I would be very disappointed to be getting a figure as low as 36mpg in city traffic never mind on the open road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just seen a laughable web advert for Chevrolet cars, proudly claiming &#8220;Chevy offers 8 models with 30mpg highway or better. Fuel efficiency with a choice at chevy.com&#8221; Now firstly, a little translation: 30mpg (US gallons) is 36mpg (imperial gallons) or 7.8 litres\/100km. It just shows how Americans view fuel efficiency if they think that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-merkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}