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Most fuel efficient Diesel Car

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  • #32
    kingtrojan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭kingtrojan


    I think all mpgs are exagerrated impossible....everyone drives different routes....urban driving combined with motorway driving on a daily basis for different commuters...although i must sat the 1.9tdi engines have done me very well i spend a mere 25 euro a week on diesel for 150 miles per week


  • #33
    Francie Barrett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,073 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    650Ginge wrote: »
    Fabia TDI Greenline
    Yep, the Fabia will almost certainly beat the Superb as it's over 300Kg's lighter.


  • #34
    air
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,837 ✭✭✭air


    List of the top 10 most fuel efficient cars:
    http://www.seai.ie/Power_of_One/Getting_Around/HCIYC/Top10
    A few diesels amongst these.

    The 3 biggest factors affecting fuel economy are frontal area, drag co-efficient and weight. Weight is more of a factor for stop / start journeys, hence small cars will more be more likely to have an advantage around town. Engine efficiency is going to be quite similar across the board in non modified cars.
    If car buyers weren't so concerned with appearance we could have been driving far more fuel efficient cars long ago, however manufacturers know how conservative people are so only evolve designs gradually. Look at the focus for example, it's fuel efficiency improvements over the past 3 generations have been accompanied by a more and more streamlined appearance - look at the rear especially.


  • #35
    Francie Barrett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,073 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    air wrote: »
    List of the top 10 most fuel efficient cars:
    http://www.seai.ie/Power_of_One/Getting_Around/HCIYC/Top10
    A few diesels amongst these.
    Polo 1.2 TDI Blue Motion at the top of the list.

    Which magazine found that it does 74.3 mpg in a real-world test.

    So can we declare the Polo the winner? Or will someone else claim that their 320d goes 80mpg :pac:


  • #36
    trabpc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭trabpc


    08 1.8tdci mondeo brim to brim average 1200km a week 80% motorway @ 110km/h give me 49-50mpg

    @120km/h = 46 mpg.


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  • #37
    pegasus1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭pegasus1


    air wrote: »
    List of the top 10 most fuel efficient cars:
    http://www.seai.ie/Power_of_One/Getting_Around/HCIYC/Top10
    A few diesels amongst these.

    the 1.6 fiesta you can't get here! You'd have to import it from the uk!


  • #38
    air
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,837 ✭✭✭air


    pegasus1 wrote: »
    the 1.6 fiesta you can't get here! You'd have to import it from the uk!

    I didn't make the list, I only quoted it!
    I wonder can the 1.6 be ordered from the dealer though?
    Importing from the UK isn't a huge ordeal if you want to get a particular car though. I bought my current car from the UK and collected it, it wasn't sold in Ireland originally either.
    In any case the Which? article which Francie quotes above seems to indicate that the Fiesta 1.6 doesn't deliver on the manufacturers claims regarding fuel efficiency.


  • #39
    pegasus1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭pegasus1


    air wrote: »
    I didn't make the list, I only quoted it!
    I wonder can the 1.6 be ordered from the dealer though?
    Importing from the UK isn't a huge ordeal if you want to get a particular car though. I bought my current car from the UK and collected it, it wasn't sold in Ireland originally either.
    In any case the Which? article which Francie quotes above seems to indicate that the Fiesta 1.6 doesn't deliver on the manufacturers claims regarding fuel efficiency.

    No car does....they get their figures running an engine on a test bed or something similar can't think of the name of it..:rolleyes:..no wind, no hills etc..

    But....the 1.6 will do 62 mpg doing motorway speeds..so say peeps on the Ford fiesta club site.. I can get 55 mpg with the 1.4


  • #40
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,813 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    pegasus1 wrote: »
    the 1.6 fiesta you can't get here! You'd have to import it from the uk!

    The C3 is the same engine and only slightly less efficient but probably cheaper and (to some eyes) better looking. Is it available in Ireland?


  • #41
    the culture of deference
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭the culture of deference


    Francie Barrett wrote: »
    Polo 1.2 TDI Blue Motion at the top of the list.

    Which magazine found that it does 74.3 mpg in a real-world test.

    So can we declare the Polo the winner? Or will someone else claim that their 320d goes 80mpg :pac:

    The TV show 5th gear had a blue motion for a week. One of the presenters wives used it instead of her 3 series. She averaged 35mpg.
    toby2012 wrote: »
    Hi All - What is the most fuel efficient car on the market currently? Would be looking around 2008/2009 price range? Travel approx 500 miles per week and currently running petrol which is haemorrhaging money. Need to change in coming weeks and want to make the best decision. My shortlists were as follows:

    Ford Focus.
    Ford Mondeo.
    Toyota Corolla.
    Toyota Auris.

    From what I can gather from the dealers the Auris would be best with high 50 mpg. Any other recommendations or factors I should be considering?

    Thanks

    Buy a new Renault 1.5 dci. (Megane estate is a great car). 60mpg+ 5yr warranty, same price as a 2009 ford.


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  • #42
    Francie Barrett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,073 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    the culture of deference wrote: »
    The TV show 5th gear had a blue motion for a week. One of the presenters wives used it instead of her 3 series. She averaged 35mpg.



    Buy a new Renault 1.5 dci. (Megane estate is a great car). 60mpg+ 5yr warranty, same price as a 2009 ford.
    Are you saying that Which magazine are lying? Have you anything yo back up your statements? Or is it just more makey-uppey nonsense?

    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • #43
    Al Capwned
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭Al Capwned


    My auld fella has a 2012 Citroen C3 - trip computer is giving him 58.8mpg average over 7 odd thousand miles.

    Edit - And I do borrow it every day to do 35 motorway miles, and I dont hold back - 120 / 130 kph. So it's not being nursed to bump up mpg rate.

    Sorry, 1.4 HDi engine!!


  • #44
    theoneeyedman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭theoneeyedman


    I had an uncle who until recently had a Fiat Doblo van ....1.3 multi jet engine. He reckons ( I can't verify this now) that on motorway driving he was getting >80 mpg!!!!! Cheap motoring if anyway near the truth


  • #45
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    Farmer Pudsey wrote: »
    You have a Mondeo but no Avensis a diesel avensis will do 55mpg.
    Ha ha No chance!! Lucky to crack 45 mpg out of it. Give me the Octavia any day over the Avensis.


  • #46
    Jumpaddict
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 69 ✭✭Jumpaddict


    alproctor wrote: »
    My auld fella has a 2012 Citroen C3 - trip computer is giving him 58.8mpg average over 7 odd thousand miles.

    Edit - And I do borrow it every day to do 35 motorway miles, and I dont hold back - 120 / 130 kph. So it's not being nursed to bump up mpg rate.

    Sorry, 1.4 HDi engine!!

    My trip computer tells me a figure which is always a few miles more than when I do a manual check, i.e. Fill it up, drive to near empty, fill it again and check what litres are needed to fill then work it out from there

    So I would take what the trip computer tells you with a grain of salt


  • #47
    Al Capwned
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭Al Capwned


    Jumpaddict wrote: »
    My trip computer tells me a figure which is always a few miles more than when I do a manual check, i.e. Fill it up, drive to near empty, fill it again and check what litres are needed to fill then work it out from there

    So I would take what the trip computer tells you with a grain of salt

    Indeed and I do, but its gonna be roughly correct. And I couldn't be arsed figuring it or for him.
    My Renault traffic van, however is doing 33-35 mpg. via maths.


  • #48
    wesf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭wesf


    Farmer Pudsey wrote: »
    You have a Mondeo but no Avensis a diesel avensis will do 55mpg.

    not a fear of it, i had 2 and a td carina (same engine), no matter how easily i drove i couldn't top 49mpg, that was changing before 2500 revs and not going over 60mph


  • #49
    the culture of deference
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭the culture of deference


    Francie Barrett wrote: »
    Are you saying that Which magazine are lying? Have you anything yo back up your statements? Or is it just more makey-uppey nonsense?

    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    They got 47 mpg over a week period.
    http://www.streetfire.net/video/301-fifth-gear-vw-bluemotion_171409.htm

    Fifth gear is a UK TV car show like top gear, in fact it used to be top gear until the BBC cancelled it.
    Channel 5 originally wanted to carry on using the Top Gear name, but the BBC refused.

    Jumpaddict wrote: »
    My trip computer tells me a figure which is always a few miles more than when I do a manual check, i.e. Fill it up, drive to near empty, fill it again and check what litres are needed to fill then work it out from there

    So I would take what the trip computer tells you with a grain of salt

    It's hardly rocket science.
    4.54 litres in a gallon.


  • #50
    Jumpaddict
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 69 ✭✭Jumpaddict


    the culture of deference wrote: »
    It's hardly rocket science.
    4.54 litres in a gallon.

    Who said it was rocket science??? But there's a gold star in the post for you, for been such a clever clogs;)


  • #51
    the culture of deference
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭the culture of deference


    Jumpaddict wrote: »
    Who said it was rocket science???

    For your long winded explanation


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  • #52
    cadaliac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭cadaliac


    the culture of deference wrote: »
    For your long winded explanation
    Well to be fair, Jumpaddict was simply noting that they were using the whole tank as against a previous poster who said that they use a half a tank to calculate.


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