Originally posted by Sparker:
I cant believe that you can only get such low octane levels. Here in Britain its a minimum of 95 octane. And quite a few people including myself run it on 98 octane fuel




Your octane ratings are on a different system than ours. Europe uses RON (Research Octane Number) and the US uses the arithmetic mean of RON and the Motor Octane Number. The latter is always lower for any given fuel - sometimes much lower. So US octane numbers can't easily be compared with European ones - US's '87' is probably close to a European '92'.

At present, most places in Europe have 98 RON and 95 RON unleaded and some have 97 RON leaded.

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