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Top Gear and MPG, a rant I apologise.

  • 22-01-2012 5:17pm
    #1
    B340
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    Seriously... Top Gear magazine is rubbishing cars that give a combined rating of 37mpg. Apparently these cars are 'thirsty.' I was wee bit shocked at that.

    I drive a Vectra. 36 37mpg is all I can hope for usually, maybe 39 if I'm a really good boy. It is only a 1.8. It is 10 years old. Yet all the reviews are talking in Top Gear magazine about cars that give 60mpg etc. I hate to burst the bubble TG but the cars actually reviewed in the mag only return 40mpg at best, the Mini 1.6 actually returning only 30mpg. Now I dunno if anyone else is wondering this but when a magazine talks about the new Civic in glowing terms for giving back 65mpg and costing direct quote. 'only £18,000'.

    I say again ONLY?!!?!?!?!

    Does anyone else think the magazine and possibly the show have missed the point of what ordinary peeps such as myself go through in owning our cars? Cos I seriously don't get it.

    (Side note - A mate of mine got one of these new wonder diesels giving an alleged 72mpg. With the distributor cap that is legal in the UK and mandatory it is giving only 35mpg. None of the cars on test in the mag is measuring up to the claims in the back, not even close enough to admit a factory testing error. Quite seriously, is half the mag just firelighters?)


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  • #2
    bkehoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭bkehoe


    On the talk of diesels I used to get 50 - 55MPG on a 2007 VW Golf 1.9TDI and family members get similar figures from a 2002 Audi A4 1.9TDI so the efficiency claims of newer diesels don't arouse my suspicions at all.


  • #3
    PrettyBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,213 ✭✭✭PrettyBoy


    You signed up to Boards just to say that?

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz


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