RON? Not your next-door neighbour.

What does the RON number mean in regard to petrol?
Unleaded fuels carry a RON (Research Octane Number) rating. Put simply, RON determines petrol’s ‘anti-knock’ quality or resistance to pre-ignition; or if you want to put in another way, the Octane Number denotes its resistance to detonation.
If you run your [...]

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There’s been plenty of talk of alternative fuels where the output of their use generates no pollutants, but these are mostly all still little more than pipe dreams.

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Bernd Pischetsrieder the Chief Executive of Volkswagen AG believes that diesel-powered cars are a better way to reduce fuel consumption and pollution than hybrid petrol-electric vehicles.

Pischetsrieder announced his beliefs at the Los Angeles auto show and went on to say

“Any significant reduction of fuel consumption under all conditions requires diesel technology,” said Pischetsrieder

Pischetsrieder also said [...]

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