The official Canadian smart website has now documented the much rumoured trip across Canada by Guy Desjardins, a driver for Le Guide de l’Auto out of Montreal. Some of you will recall hearing of this rumoured trip at one point.

Their 10 day journey one-way across 9 Canadian Provinces began in Victoria on August 25th, and ended in Halifax on September 3rd.

Guy and myself were merely days apart in some parts of the country - as I departed Victoria on August 28th. I can recall arriving into Montreal amidst rumour that I had been on TV, when in fact, it was Guy who had been on TV! (I made up for that in Newfoundland, BTW.) I also have a newspaper article from Edmundston NB dated Sept 7th showing Guy at a Days Inn with some details of his trip.

This trip by Le Guide de l’Auto was sponsored by Days Inn, Ultramar and Mercedes-Benz Canada, who supplied a car for the 10 days of travel. You can read their concise travelogue here.

The mileage obtained by the Mercedes-Benz car was not quite as good as what I achieved, but it is still impressive:

6,587 km from Victoria to Halifax on $268.70

Their fuel consumption was 4.02 L/100km, or 70 mpg (imperial)

The price of fuel ranged from $0.922 to $1.149, and averaged $1.004/litre.

No mention is made of the best mileage achieved on one tank.

This in comparison to my trip, which was:

16,344 kms total (33 days)
593 litres of fuel
$624.63 spent ($1.057 average per litre)
3.63 L/100km average, which is 78 mpg (imperial)

My top 5 tanks were all greater than 100 MPG.

You can view my tank by tank records at spritmonitor.