Avensis 1.6 2005

The revs will sit at around 3250rpm. They aren't great on petrol, you'd be better off getting the 1.8 version as they're easier run. The bigger engine doesn't need to work as hard.

I agree with the other posters. To put it in simple terms coming from the Fiesta you would be doubling your fuel costs. I doubt that sounds very appealing :pac:

Early to mid 30s for what you're describing

2005 1.6 Avensis way underpowered and heavy on juice,too small an engine for that body imo!

But if you were setting out to buy a car for that usage, a petrol avensis of any description shouldn't be on the list.

Anything petrol in that class/size of car is not going to get anywhere near the mpg of a Fiesta size diesel. A 1.6 litre petrol Avensis will probably return early 30s mpg at best.

If I were you I would be looking at something like a Skoda Octavia 1.9 TDi, old technology reliable diesel and decent space.

What speed were you doing to get 44mpg?

New or old model 03?

I had a newer shape 2003 Avensis 1.8 litre petrol from new for over 4 years. The best I could manage out of it was around 35mpg, I just cannot imagine the less powerful 1.6 litre getting much better.

captainspeed wrote: »

I simply do not believe based on driving Avensis in both 1.6 and 1.8 litre guises that anything even close to 47 mpg is possible - 40 mpg is the absolute maximum these cars do, and that's being very careful.

I had a 99 Avensis 1.6 that I had to drive like a nun for a few weeks. I eeked out 47.1mpg from it over a couple of tanks. Now it was tough going but needs must at the time.

I was in 5h gear at 35mph and never broke 40mph. It was good but there is no way it would get anything near that on the motorway.

ba_barabus wrote: »

I had a 99 Avensis 1.6 that I had to drive like a nun for a few weeks. I eeked out 47.1mpg from it over a couple of tanks. Now it was tough going but needs must at the time.

I was in 5h gear at 35mph and never broke 40mph. It was good but there is no way it would get anything near that on the motorway.

Yes and if everyone drove that slowly I'm sure we could all get good mpg figures;)! For the rest of us though, life's too short and I stand by my claim that no 1.6 or 1.8 Avensis under normal driving conditions will top 40 mpg. Perhaps the 09 onwards ones with the six speed gearbox are good on juice, but the VVTis are definitely not very fuel efficient (plus they burn oil as the miles pile on). The old Carina Es with their lean burn 1.6 engines were good on juice, and over 40 mpg in the real world was not unrealistic. Then again they weighed as much as tracing paper, which also helped...

Yes the mpg figures from the trip computer in a Mk2 Avensis can be comical at times. It once told me I averaged 48.6 mpg (driving like a nun), when I refilled the tank and worked it out, it was 'just' 42, still very good for a 1.8 petrol engine, but some bit off 48. The one time I managed 42 mpg from an Avensis was not going above 100 km/h, not driving in town bar maybe about 20 km of it, not accelerating even remotely close to quickly, on hilly roads accelerating down the hill so the momentum of the car would carry it up the hill without needing to resort to presing the acclerator, although on flat roads I did drive at the speed limit only I just took ages getting to it! It proved it was possible to do 42 mpg, but it was totally unrealistic. I never saw more than 37 mpg in real world driving from a 1.8, 34-36 was more like it. Oddly enough, the 00-02 model Corolla would tell you it was doing ever so slightly less mpg than it really was....

My trip computer never says more than 28mpg. I think it might have been more use for toyota to put a pocket in the middle of the dash rather than the trip computer.