95 Octane Now Rs 490, Rs66 Above Regular — Worth the Extra or Just Marketing?

CPC pushed fuel prices up again from midnight November 1: 95 Octane petrol jumped Rs15 to Rs490 a litre, while regular 92 Octane rose just Rs10 to Rs424. Diesel went up Rs5 to Rs397 and Super Diesel Rs15 to Rs543. That gap between the two petrol grades is now Rs66 a litre, and it has people rethinking which pump they queue at. One side says 95 Octane earns its price: higher-compression engines, many reconditioned Japanese cars, turbo variants and newer hybrids, are tuned for it, and running 92 in them risks knocking, lost power and engine wear that costs far more over time than the fuel premium. The other side calls it a waste of money: most everyday cars and tuks run perfectly fine on 92, and the extra cleaning additives in 95 don't do anything your normal servicing doesn't already cover. You're just paying for the label on the pump. So which grade do you actually run, and why? If you've switched between them on the same vehicle, what did you really notice, power, mileage, or nothing at all? ඔයාගේ කාරයට 95 ඕක්ටේන් ඕනද, නැත්නම් 92 ඇති ද? අත්දැකීම කියන්න.