Ninehigh
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| posted on 11/1/12 at 09:17 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by James
Colleague of my Father's commutes 240miles per day, mostly on motorways in a diesel Smart.
I'm told he gets 99mpg so might be worth investigating that route.
Cheers,
James
I'm hard pressed to believe that... I couldn't get that on a moped...
Maybe if 238 of those 240 miles was motorway and he made a habit of slipstreaming wagons (I could get the mondeo up to low 60's doing that as
opposed to mid-high 50's)
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bigbravedave
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| posted on 11/1/12 at 09:36 PM |
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I used to drive a very early golf mk3 tdi 1.9tdi (200 m1 miles a day)
It was lowered 40mm on 15" steelies, it did 80 mph at 2200 rpm at an average of 58mpg. it still did circa 50mpg at a tonne
it red lined at 3500rpm (the last of the tractor like diesels!) I then got one of the last mk3 estates. being an estate, totally different gearing and
a higher red line, bugger!
there was a scruffy grey dc2 honda integra on the web with a vag pd 130tdi in it. first thoughts were what the ... then actually remapped to 160 with
integra handling would be a great daily hack come to think of it.
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 11/1/12 at 09:39 PM |
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buy a citreon c3 1.4 diesel.
70mpg (I average 63mpg on my 37 mile mixed driving commute)
You can get them for £3k.
Seats arn;t very comfy, but seeing as my fuel bill has HALVED, I can live with that.
[Edited on 11/1/12 by Dangle_kt]
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britishtrident
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| posted on 11/1/12 at 10:17 PM |
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These days I take all modern tintop MPG figures I see on the web with Dead Sea load load of salt too many people quote computer read outs of MPG or
convert at 5 litres to a Gallon.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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wylliezx9r
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| posted on 11/1/12 at 10:25 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
These days I take all modern tintop MPG figures I see on the web with Dead Sea load load of salt too many people quote computer read outs of MPG or
convert at 5 litres to a Gallon.
I agree, the computer on my a3 2.0 tdi is out by about 10 mpg, but it returns the government extra urban figure easily.
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
George Best
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matt_gsxr
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| posted on 11/1/12 at 10:27 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by coozer
Right on it there, I have 1.5d 106 that does 80mpg on the motorway and 70+ round the doors Its for sale!
I rented one of those once, almost no acceleration, but awesome handling made up for it.
But incredible on fuel. It hardly seemed to use any at all.
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