Unless people do upwards of 30,000 miles a year, why the obsession with fuel economy?
Do people not realise the other costs of motoring tend to be just as, significant, or in many cases much more so?
Is it because fuel is something you hand your debit card over to purchase every week, as opposed to just a direct debit or a yearly cost like insurance or servicing?
I know of people paying thousands more for a more economical engine, only to not do enough miles to “break even” on fuel economy - they’d have been better off banking the saving and spending some of it on extra fuel.
I don’t know if it’s just a British thing, or maybe a thing among all countries where fuel is taxed. Understandably, I don’t know of any Americans who worry about economy…I also once met someone who worked in the Middle East and fuel was so cheap there (and presumably crime so low) that people would leave their cars running while at work just so the air conditioning still had the cabin nice and cool when they got back in