>> It looks pretty huge in the picture. ;-)
> 
> Renault Megane 4295 x 1808 x 1471 mm
> Audi A3 4328 x 1765 x 1421 mm
> 
> Seem about the same to me...

OK. I guess it just "looks" large then.

It's a bit like how the new mini somehow "looks" small, even though it's 
actually bigger than almost every car on the road! o_O

>> Mind you, have you ever noticed how when you buy a cake in a shop, the 
>> thing on the box always looks huge, while the contents generally don't 
>> resemble it closely?
> 
> I find that usually when the shop is much bigger than your house.  Like 
> when my mum bought this sofa set from a shop (which is obviously vastly 
> larger than her living room, and probably our whole road), when she got 
> it home it looked like twice the size as the one in the shop!

Heh, yeah. But usually the picture on a cake box shows the cake on a 
tiny plate, with lots of small things next to it, to make it look really 
big. ;-)

Also, at work we often have these magazines like "Perfect Interiors" and 
stuff. And you look at the front page and think "yeah, if my house was 
that big, *I* could probably make it look good too!" :-P

>> That's almost identical to my Renault Megan. (Although it's been 
>> decreasing lately...)
> 
> Mine depends how fast I drive.

Well, yes. And the terrain and so on. But remember, I drive the same 
route every day, at approximately the same speed. Driving along the 
motorway really is drastically more efficient. (Except the M45; that's 
uphill.)

> I also found out that turning the air-con off reduced the fuel 
> consumption by about 3 mpg during normal driving, I wouldn't have 
> expected quite that much, but there you go.

I haven't measured any difference.

What I *have* measured is that for the past several weeks, my fuel 
efficiency has been slowly decreasing. I recently had the car serviced 
(it was overdue) and it's gone up somewhat, but it's still not quite as 
high as it used to be.

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