6L/100Km

Del2005

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

100 held by cruise control at 3000RPM.



Ah that's good to hear! Yes she's new and thanks for the luck Re resistance - an excuse for me to keep it shiny

As an aside how do you tax a new car? Do you wait of the logbook? What if I'm stopped by the guards?

3000rpm at 100km/h that's revving very high. Most of my cars, which are all petrol , would be less than that at 120. Only car I've driven that revved that high is my Dad's 1.6 petrol Focus, I keep thinking I'm in 3rd gear on motorways.

To tax you use the last 6 digits of your VIN as the PIN on motor tax online. You get the VLC after you tax it.

TomOnBoard

Oral Surgeon wrote: »

20L/100km last time I checked!!:eek::eek:

40L/100km at Runway Club!!

That's the downside of them ould Ferraris... 😷

TomOnBoard

Del2005 wrote: »

3000rpm at 100km/h that's revving very high. Most of my cars, which are all petrol , would be less than that at 120. Only car I've driven that revved that high is my Dad's 1.6 petrol Focus, I keep thinking I'm in 3rd gear on motorways.

To tax you use the last 6 digits of your VIN as the PIN on motor tax online. You get the VLC after you tax it.

Small petrol engines will have a high rev range. Very little torque.

CiniO

Del2005 wrote: »

3000rpm at 100km/h that's revving very high. Most of my cars, which are all petrol , would be less than that at 120. Only car I've driven that revved that high is my Dad's 1.6 petrol Focus, I keep thinking I'm in 3rd gear on motorways.
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I don't think it's high at all.
Many petrol cars would have such ratio.
My 2 litre crv would be about the same 3000rpm at 100km/h.

Petrol engine running at high revs doesn't automatically mean poor fuel economy.

When you think about it when it's 3000 rpm at 100km/h that gives you 6000rpm at 200km/h which makes perfect sense as most petrol engines would have their peak power around 6000rpm which is needed to pull the car at 200kmh.

go4it

Used a 161 1.0 Litre Skoda fabia for a year ; kinda under-powered for my taste, i could feel it's alive only from 2700+ rpm

Most of time 2 pasengers, no luggage, Dublin city centre driving at 7am and 6pm ;over 10.000km = 6.3/100km

Other thoughts: at 50km/h in 3rd gear=2900rpm ; at 50km/h in 4th gear=2000rpm ; Motorway @100km/h required 5th gear and 3200rpm ( never pushed the car more than 130km/h since i didn't owned the car and it seemed at the last power breath )

Over a few trips on motorway ( 300km ): 4.7-5l/100 km ( driven @100km/h single car occupancy )

ps: this car has NO Turbo engine , just naturally aspirated engine - chosen by the original owner for greater reliability )

Oral Surgeon

TomOnBoard wrote: »

That's the downside of them ould Ferraris... ��

No unfortunately not... Someday though.....

The only petrol engines that I've gotten close to 50mpg out of was a Toyota CH-R hybrid and a Yaris.

Recent petrol rentals......

Astra 1.4 turbo petrol 40mpg
Auris petrol 1.4 petrol 37mpg
Yaris 1.0 petrol 45mpg
Corsa 1.0  33mpg
Seat Ibiza 1.0 35/37 ish
CHR Hybrid 50mpg
Ford Edge 2.0 ecoboost 30mpg 
Renegade 1.4 multiair 38mpg ........

...... and in diesel FYI ..
Tipo 1.6 95bhp diesel 42mpg
500L 1.3 diesel 50mpg
Focus 1.5 diesel 50mpg
Kuga 2.0d 2WD 45 mpg
Fabia 1.4 tdi  55 ish mpg

I'd have had all of these for at least a week iirc, some for a month or so.

ION08

3.0TDI Quattro

7.2L/100km on a 640km round trip (wasn't taking it particularly easy either)

9.2L/100km averaged over 10,000kms

I find this economy excellent for the size of the engine and for the power that’s on tap.

Hard to beat a large Diesel for a long motorway journey!

_Kaiser_

ION08 wrote: »

3.0TDI Quattro

7.2L/100km on a 640km round trip (wasn't taking it particularly easy either)

9.2L/100km averaged over 10,000kms

I find this economy excellent for the size of the engine and for the power that’s on tap.

Hard to beat a large Diesel for a long motorway journey!

Preach brother!

Fantastic engine and yet economical enough that I can do 1300km a week in it without crying too much over the bill at the end of the month

jca

Little 80km spin in the 1.0 TSI dsg Octavia today 5.2/100km. 2000 rpm @ 100 km/h.

Pkiernan

Chevy Silverado 6.0 petrol crewcab.
15mpg average. 7mpg when towing a 31 ft trailer.

Don't ask me about l/100km nonsense!

vandriver

jca wrote: »

Little 80km spin in the 1.0 TSI dsg Octavia today 5.2/100km. 2000 rpm @ 100 km/h.

My wife's 12 year old Octavia with 300k Kms on it beats that!
She regularly gets 4.9 on her M50 commute.

ION08

Here’s an interesting one!

I covered just over 2,000kms in a Camaro SS 6.2 V8 and somehow managed 12,5L/100km

Had it in ‘Sport’ mode the whole time too..



I did some maths at the time and the total cost of fuel used worked out cheaper than what it would have cost me to cover that same distance in my Audi A4 1.9TDI in Ireland.

What a painful realisation that was

jca

ION08 wrote: »

Here’s an interesting one!

I covered just over 2,000kms in a Camaro SS 6.2 V8 and somehow managed 12,5L/100km

Had it in ‘Sport’ mode the whole time too..



I did some maths at the time and the total cost of fuel used worked out cheaper than what it would have cost me to cover that same distance in my Audi A4 1.9TDI in Ireland.

What a painful realisation that was

At an average speed of 53 km/h try pressing the accelerator for the next 2000km and she what she'll do.

jca

vandriver wrote: »

My wife's 12 year old Octavia with 300k Kms on it beats that!
She regularly gets 4.9 on her M50 commute.

Diesel or petrol?

ION08

jca wrote: »

At an average speed of 53 km/h try pressing the accelerator for the next 2000km and she what she'll do.

Accelerator was firmly planted on plenty of occasions I can assure you

That average speed of 53km/h also takes into account the 0km/h when sitting in traffic ... again , a testament to the relatively good consumption achieved.

djivide_

ION08 wrote: »

3.0TDI Quattro

7.2L/100km on a 640km round trip (wasn't taking it particularly easy either)

9.2L/100km averaged over 10,000kms

I find this economy excellent for the size of the engine and for the power that’s on tap.

Hard to beat a large Diesel for a long motorway journey!

is that a saloon or suv? I have a 30d xdrive in a saloon and agree with you regarding the power on tap and motorway journeys but getting a little better figures.

8.3 L/100km over past 20k kms doing mixed motorway / city commuting.
Good long journey on mostly motorway would be around 6.8 again not taking it easy

ION08

djivide_ wrote: »

is that a saloon or suv? I have a 30d xdrive in a saloon and agree with you regarding the power on tap and motorway journeys but getting a little better figures.

8.3 L/100km over past 20k kms doing mixed motorway / city commuting.
Good long journey on mostly motorway would be around 6.8 again not taking it easy

Mine is a saloon (A4 B8)

Your figures are excellent for a 30d xDrive! I presume it's a newer generation engine than the 3.0TDI hence the better fuel economy

What model is it exactly?

djivide_

ION08 wrote: »

Mine is a saloon (A4 B8)

Your figures are excellent for a 30d xDrive! I presume it's a newer generation engine than the 3.0TDI hence the better fuel economy

What model is it exactly?

Yeah latest gen 5 series g30 530d, had a 520 before hand and the engine is so much nicer than the 4 pot.

ION08

djivide_ wrote: »

Yeah latest gen 5 series g30 530d, had a 520 before hand and the engine is so much nicer than the 4 pot.

Lovely car and quite rare I imagine being a 30d and xDrive.

Coincidently, I saw one parked up by Merrion Square yesterday and gave it a proper oogling. :cool:

As for 4 pot vs 6 pot , the mechanical refinement is just incomparable between the two.

ShadowHearth

My car now settled at 6.7l/100km on the dash. Not bad for 1.8t with 192hp petrol. Saying this, I drive 90% of that Limerick - North Cork. My car sees very little city driving.

ION08

ShadowHearth wrote: »

My car now settled at 6.7l/100km on the dash. Not bad for 1.8t with 192hp petrol. Saying this, I drive 90% of that Limerick - North Cork. My car sees very little city driving.

Jesus thats very good. That's diesel like economy! .. you must be completely off boost when driving!

I had 2 1.8T's before ... a Golf GTI and a TT 225 ... didn't see anywhere close to those figures!

ShadowHearth

ION08 wrote: »

Jesus thats very good. That's diesel like economy! .. you must be completely off boost when driving!

I had 2 1.8T's before ... a Golf GTI and a TT 225 ... didn't see anywhere close to those figures!

I think it has to do with heavy traffic when I go to work. There so many trucks and lialias going below speed limit that I end up driving 80km/h all 40miles. On the way home I have a bit more spiritual driving. Thing is I dont even try for good mpg. Once I wanted to see how much I will get driving home like a granny and that trip registered as 6.4l/100km. Now I was driving like a granny, not going over 100 and on motorway keeping it 120. I still computer figures, but when I tested it with brim method it was not far off real world mpg.

6.7 was a bit of a shock to myself too as for very long time I was 7.2 to 7.5 all the time. Really good engine so far.

vandriver

jca wrote: »

Diesel or petrol?

The old 1.9 tdi

80sDiesel

5.3/100. diesel quashqai ,  70% motorway, no bumper to bumper,  speedlimit + 8 ,

Lord Nikon

I'm averaging 40mpg with mixed motorway/city driving. BMW 3 liter diesel.

Zubeneschamali

5.5 l/10km long term average, has improved from 6.0 when the car was new 25,0000 km ago.

Mostly motorway cruising at 120 km/hr, but some short trips and start/stop traffic too.

Octavia VRs 2.0 diesel. Not a very lovable engine compared to the V6s above.

ShadowHearth

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

5.5 l/10km long term average, has improved from 6.0 when the car was new 25,0000 km ago.

Mostly motorway cruising at 120 km/hr, but some short trips and start/stop traffic too.

Octavia VRs 2.0 diesel. Not a very lovable engine compared to the V6s above.

Actually I noticed that too when it hit 20k ish km. Mpg became a lot better. Theu say engine needs run in for about 8k km to settle down, but I guess its a lot more then that.

jca

vandriver wrote: »

The old 1.9 tdi

Hardly a fair comparison is it?