Video: 1223 miles from Africa to the UK on one tank of fuel

27 June 2014
Feature

Is it possible to drive a super-frugal Mercedes-Benz E300 BlueTEC Hybrid from Africa to the UK on one tank of diesel? On the eve of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Autocar’s senior contributing writer Andrew Frankel finds out.

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VicciV 2 July 2014

Ha Ha

Soooo made up.
d79m 2 July 2014

And since he basically just

And since he basically just got on a ferry in Africa surely its just driving from spain to UK one tank.
ACCobra427 30 June 2014

Andrew should stick to writting.

Very boring, scruffy man drives car slowly across Europe. One helluva story that! ('Amazing adventure').