Couple set fuel efficiency record

A HUSBAND and wife team set a new fuel efficiency record yesterday for driving around the world on just 24 tanks of petrol.

Couple set fuel efficiency record

John and Helen Taylor’s epic 78-day drive took them 29,000 kilometres through Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the US and Canada using less than half of the 50 tanks they were expected to use.

Their round-the-world trip in a VW Golf hatchback ended in London yesterday after taking in 25 countries.

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