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What is the best fuel for my car?

I currently own a Mini One 1.6 and want to know what the best fuel is for my car, the fuel stations near me are Morrisons, Shell, Texaco and Sainsburys. I don't know whether to pay a premium for Texaco or Shell (or even V Power)? The car is only 4 years old.

Thanks

that car uses the siemens ems 2000, which is good! you can run between 87 and 98 octane fuel, and the computer will adjust the timing etc. to suit the octane rating of the fuel (active knock control). less advanced cars, even many current ones, can't dynamically sense the fuel octane and dynamically adjust to it, so you're lucky. there's an advantage to bmw in doing this, because it allows them to sell the same car in multiple countries without having to have the ecu set up for the specific fuel available in that country.

if by best, you mean best performance, I personally like tesco 99, now called momentum99, it's 99 RON! the highest you can get. (its safe, although perhaps wasteful since the engine can't use the extra power, to exceed the ron rating your engine is set up for. its unsafe to use a fuel with a lower ron than what your engine's set up for.)

http://www.tesco.com/Momentum99/

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