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Prince Charles has converted his vintage Aston Martin DB6 to run on bioethanol distilled from surplus British wine.
Eco-friendly Charles was given the Aston by the Queen on his 21st birthday. It only clocks up 300 miles per year and averages ten miles a gallon - that’s roughly five bottles of wine per mile.
The biofuel costs £1.10 a litre, but its net output of CO2 is considerably less than normal petrol as the gas is absorbed during the growing process of the vines.
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Obviously the car, like its royal owner, likes a drink or two.  Hope the bioethanol was distilled from burgundy to match the color of the car.  A genuinely superb and well-preserved example it is too - I am referring to the Aston.

Nice story but please get your maths right. Its more like 2/3 bottles per mile.

If an average bottle is .75L then that makes 6.6 bottles per gallon (gallon = 4.55L) so 10 miles per 6.6 bottle equals about 2/3 bottle per mile.

 However if you assume that a bottle of wine is 9 units and he does 300 miles a year then the aston consumes about the recommended number of alchohol units per week (28 units) :-)
 

Gives a whole new meaning to drink driving!!

 

A R Chen:

Hope the bioethanol was distilled from burgundy to match the color of the car. 

Sorry to disappoint but the photograph was not of the Prince's car. His is a blue soft top. Err, don't know which grape variety would produce blue wine.

 

You know the French had their revolution; better late than never I say…get started.

GD:

A R Chen:

Hope the bioethanol was distilled from burgundy to match the color of the car. 

Sorry to disappoint but the photograph was not of the Prince's car. His is a blue soft top. Err, don't know which grape variety would produce blue wine.

 

Maybe he could run it on 'the blue nun'? 

NiallOswald:

GD:

A R Chen:

Hope the bioethanol was distilled from burgundy to match the color of the car. 

Sorry to disappoint but the photograph was not of the Prince's car. His is a blue soft top. Err, don't know which grape variety would produce blue wine.

 

Maybe he could run it on 'the blue nun'? 

  I think that all 3 of us need to discuss this over a bottle or Cabernet Sauvignon!