Does a car's "range" (how far it can travel on a tank of gas) matter to you?

Question

What does it mean when a car company tells you a car travel further? Is it good or bad? What are they trying to communicate?

Answer 1

Yes absolutely it does . In fact I would say it is one of the highest priorities today in buying materials . Gasoline is at an alltime high in this country and keeps us  fairly decent in the run for a good enough government to be concerned about everyone in this United States.

Boats , cars , and rising gasoline prices are taking a deep bite of  our budgets .

Answer 2

Since gas costs SO MUCH, they are saying you will pay less on gas.

Answer 3

>> What does it mean when a car company tells you a car travel further?

That's just "positive" speech.  People don't always understand or even want to know.  They hears words like

"more"

"better"

"faster"

and associate that as meaning something good - even if it is just meaningless jumble - like "go further"

Good Luck...

Answer 4

Honestly it communicates absolutely nothing to me unless you tell me the size of the gas tank.

As long as the tank is not ridiculously small, I'm not so concerned if I can go 300 miles until I fill up or more.

I'm more concerned about fuel economy. Miles per gallon, or should I say Miles per dollar, than how far I can go on a full tank. Now tell us a rating in miles per dollar, or even dollars per mile. That would be much more useful.

Answer 5

Range is a function of fuel mileage times fuel capacity. The more fuel you can carry, the greater your range. The important number is fuel mileage, because it determines your cost per mile. Fuel tank size only determines how far you can go, not how much it will cost. Car companies will tell you anything to get you to buy their car, and if they tell you that you can go 1,000 miles on a tank of gas, that sounds really good, but the reality is that range only determines how often you will stop for fuel, not how much you will buy.

Answer 6

Range is simply MPG times gas tank capacity in gallons.

That said, I feel that this effort is imply a disguise for lower fuel economy, since any "range" number is always a bigger number than than the mpg number.

Does this range matter to me? Well, sort of. A larger range can mean I stop for gas less often, but each time I get gas, the tank capacity is what I am filling, not the MPG, so although a high 'range' car can go further before a refuel stop, I might eat 2 times as much gas doing that larger range.

Examples, assume $4.00 per gallon:

23 MPG X 23 gallons tank = 529 miles range, $92 to fill the tank.

45 mpg X 12 gallons tank = 540 miles range, $48 to fill the tank.

Range means nothing to me

HTH.