This is NOT bull**t. This email came from someone in the team responsible for buying petrol at Tesco HQ. You can tell by the marketing speak!


" Yes its true, another Tesco first, we are trialling a 99 octane super
unleaded petrol grade in 12 sites around the South East of England.

This will be competitvely priced compared to our Oil Company competitors and will be subject to our usual price check so as to ensure we match the lowest price locally for this grade.

It will be labelled as 99 octane and we will therefore always ensure it meets this octane level as a minimum.

So those lucky enough to have scoobies and the like should feel a
benefit in performance without it hitting their pockets too hard.

Roll out to further stores ( in the S.E. area only) depends are how customers respond - so come on down.

We are also selling "standard" super unleaded - 97 octane, in 12 stores based around the Midlands and South Wales, again a trial to gauge customer reaction.

99 OCTANE STORES:
Beford 1
Cheshunt Extra
Crawley Hazelwick
Gallions Reach Extra
Gillingham Kent
Lakeside Extra
Ramsgate Manston
Salisbury 2
Sandhurst Extra
Sevenoaks Riverhead
Stevenage Extra
Winchester

97 OCTANE STORES
Banbury
Bicester 2
Cardiff Extra
Culverhouse Cross
Neath Abbey
Penarth
rdditich Extra
Stratford Upon Avon
Warwick
Worcester 1 "

So now you know. Hopefully this will take off and become widely available.

 

Quick, everybody buy some so they make it the norm!

 

off to lakeside shortly.........

 

At least someone has the right idea, too many people scared to turn their bloody key in this forum let alone put different fuel in their car. I tried it and prefer it to Optimax. Who cares who's selling it.

 

I shall go that extra mile past the shell garage , and onto the Tesco joint

 

see wot activity the knocklink has compared to optimax, bp and esso super........

 

"scooby" is not marketing speak,lolz?

 

Did they not used to sell 97 SUL?

 

Loads of Scoobs around Stevenage - so get down to Tescos!! Lucky we've got the opportunity to try this out.

 

So, who exactly said "So those lucky enough to have scoobies and the like should feel a benefit in performance without it hitting their pockets too hard."

Doesn't sound like an official statement from a commercial organisation to me...

 

its all down fekin south bloody southerners

 

Never a truer word spoken

 

only sainsbury with 97ron till this tesco trial

 

Yeah, and if we don't buy much they'll scrap it and you'll never have the chance

Still - fair is fair, the north got the poll tax to try out first

 

Its either 'switched on' pr speak or its SIAL. Makes a difference from the dry statements these big companies usually churn out. IMHO I prefer the personal touch rather than the commercial dictionary approach.

 

Put a tank in today and no activity on knocklink so go on indulge all off you!!!!! You won't be dissappointed.

 

Why should all the French ****as get it first? Ya southern cockney poofs!
Ootside now the lotta yas!
LOL.
/me runs and hides as he cant fight for ****

 

whats your car spec mate??

 

most of the high powered cars live up here, so we need it more than the south:P

 

Since my car is currently running on fumes I shall be trying out the worcester tesco's to see what the SUL is like. At least this should give me another option over BP since there is no shell anywhere around here.

 

and the won't be selling much. Charging a 4p premium for the 97RON cf Sainsbury 1p

 

Tesco fuel is Esso fuel so assuming the original statement is true, would it not be fair to assume Esso stations will aslo have 99Ron fuel in stores as well ??? !!!



Andy

 

I normally run a booster as well as Optimax, so Ill post what KL activity I get when I put some in from the Gillingham one later today.

I knew I moved back to Kent for some reason

 

It's got to be good giving Shell some competition. They might fight back by releasing their 100 ron fuel which they sell in Germany.

 

is there nee where in the newcastle upon tyne area. optitax hurts the pocket a bit.

 

ive got an esso at the bottom of my road,and they aint selling 99 ron,but the gillingham tesco that has it is only a few minutes along the road,about half way between my house and my nearest shell,so ill give it a try when ive used the full tank optimax i put in last weekend.

BM

 

grrr why cant stratford have the 99 octane

 

spec'c' is now full of 99 ron..... have only drove it home tho so didnt really have a chance to see difference in KL activity..... poser's cruise to southend tonight will hopefully see the results.........

 

me tooo

 

Still on my first tank and my classic uk my00 is liking it. Pulling harder and running smoother. Think it was 85.9 p so cheaper than 95 RON at some of the garages round here.