Well, why don't you try go around the street and ask people would they purchase a 38k Japanese car but need 98ron petrol ? Over 1000 people, I guess there would be more people would accept a car with lower fuel requirement over high fuel reqirment for the same performance. (subject to the same car, eg: carA rated as 98ron min Vs carA rated as 95ron min)
In another way, if the car can be driven with a lower spec fuel and more people would accept it, why would they put it at higher spec? What benefit can the car dealer gain for setting a higher rate petrol? And I would believe that some Japanese cars lowered the fuel requirement even without doing any changes to the car, probably just reprogramed the fuel/air ratio so the car doesn't knock.
And Golf GTI is a euro car, euro vs jap? I think more people would say Euro cars are more prestige than Jap cars, thus, using a higher rate petrol is more acceptable for euro built cars.
10% just a rough estimation, ok, my bad, please allow me to correct it, last night I refueled @ shell, 149.95 for 98 vpower, 139.95 for 95, 135.95 for 91, ok,big deal, I'll correct it to 6.6688896298766255418472824274758% extra running cost per year, probably won't be that much but if you add everything in your daily life expenses together, and try to save everything with 6.6688896298766255418472824274758%, the total is quiet a lot. Eg: spending of 30k a year for a family, 6.6688896298766255418472824274758% saving would be $2000.67 why don't you want an extra $2000.67 bonus at the end of the year? Sorry for the number but since some people here are very concerned about the exact %.
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