Hyundai tucson

horse7

Getting 7.2 lts/100 in a new Tucson,is this right as the reviews say 60+ mpg?

Toyotafanboi

7.2 l/ 100km is around 40mpg, which seems fairly realistic for a combined figure for that car. you could probably see a little more if you are doing mostly light footed motorway runs.

i'm sure reviews suggest it, but a real world combined figure in the 60's would be a bit of a fantasy for that vehicle imo.

visual

MPG from car manufacturers are fantasy
They use rolling road where there is no wind resistance and everything is under ideal conditions. Real world is often a great deal less.
40 mpg for jeep type vehicle that is more shaped like a brick than a stream lined spots car is actually quite good.

cena

It is a good looking car/svu. I would love one

MuppetCheck

It depends on your driving - short journeys, long journeys, around town?

Cokd weather in winter makes cars economy take a dip. Also its three weeks old - any diesel takes a while to run it.

JohnBoy26

horse7 wrote: »

Getting 7.2 lts/100 in a new Tucson,is this right as the reviews say 60+ mpg?

Reviews are probably referring to official figures which nearly always overstate the mpg.

bazz26

Unless you run the same test under the same conditions as those used in the reviews then your not going to see the same results.

Shermanator

sounds fairly good for a Tucson. Probably suburban driving though. a bit of steady motorway driving should improve that figure

bazz26

It also takes time for a new car to loosen up, I'd expect mpg to gradually improve.

maddness

The mpg claims by manufacturers are laughable but they are all following strict European regulations and are all measured the same way. I've always thought that if I can get to within about the manufacturer figure less about 20% then I'm doing well but mostly it's far less than that.

CIP4

The winter colder weather wouldn't help and your talking 10k km before a diesel is anyway run in and even then. So you should see a gradual increase in mpg over the next few months as it gets better on diesel but it will never get 60mpg good it's an SUV at the end of the day even late 40s mpg would be really really good for one.

pred racer

Even some of the car adds are stating that the MPG figure claimed is not a real world value and should only be used as a comparison between vehicles

doctorchopper

Just seen the new add on the tv, they are claiming 4.9 ltr/100km good luck with that

Voodoomelon

What would one of these do at 120km/h? What are we talking, the 2l diesel?

bazz26

Majority are 1.7 diesel. Think the 2.0 litre is only reserved for the auto and on paper it's not much quicker than the 1.7 litre.

colm_mcm

Weighs 2000kg afaik

DaveHumphreys

That is a little on the high side but as others have already mentioned it is a new engine and will take time to loosen up. Once it does that you should start to see reductions in fuel consumption. I had one for a while last year and was getting down to about 5.5- 5.8 litres/100km with mostly city driving.

horse7

It's a 1.7 and mostly m50 100kph driving. Lowest is 6.8lts/100. Lovely drive.

ronnie3585

Honest John is reporting 63% real world MPG - which tallies with what you're getting. http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/hyundai/tucson-2015/

Manufacturers' published figures for MPG are a fallacy.

ronnie3585

Honest John is reporting 63% real world MPG - which tallies with what you're getting. http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/hyundai/tucson-2015/

Manufacturers' published figures for MPG are a fallacy.

icom

Driving a 2011 Sportage, it has the same 1.7 engine, getting 5.0- 5.2 litres/100km. Was a bit higher when it was new, so it should improve.

horse7

Yip,had a 2011 sportage and 5.2lts/100 ,so expecting more lts/100 for the Tucson.

icom

horse7 wrote: »

Yip,had a 2011 sportage and 5.2lts/100 ,so expecting more lts/100 for the Tucson.

Picking up a new 2016 Sportage next week, will be interesting to see how it compares.

horse7

icom wrote: »

Picking up a new 2016 Sportage next week, will be interesting to see how it compares.

Let's know how ur LTS/100 goes.

DaveHumphreys

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Manufacturers' published figures for MPG are a fallacy.

It's the fault of the system whereby they are allowed to conduct the tests.

horse7

Have figured out how to work the lts/100 gauge,and have it down to 4.3lts/100 on the motorway. Happy camper.

horse7

icom wrote: »

Picking up a new 2016 Sportage next week, will be interesting to see how it compares.

Any news/reviews on the new kia?

icom

horse7 wrote: »

Any news/reviews on the new kia?

Picked her up yesterday, very pleased so far, big improvement on the old model.

rraido

horse7 wrote: »

Have figured out how to work the lts/100 gauge,and have it down to 4.3lts/100 on the motorway. Happy camper.

Add your reply here.
What speed were you doing to get it down to that?

DaveHumphreys

horse7 wrote: »

Any news/reviews on the new kia?

We've driven it, but I'm not sure what the policy is about posting links to other sites on here?

horse7

rraido wrote: »

Add your reply here.
What speed were you doing to get it down to that?

Doing 100kph at 1500rpm ,you need to re set average gauge while driving. (M50 driving).