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That's the beauty of their route. Apart from inner city rush hour traffic

- where the fuel consumption could be anything - it's a mixture of roads from suburban high streets with traffic lights etc, single carriageway 'derestricted' country roads and suburban dual carriageways some restricted, some not.

They certainly look promising. However, I wonder what the comparison would be like if Land Rover etc set out to make a 4X4 lookalike which was 2 wheel drive and with no pretensions to go off road so could be much lighter? And with a decent modern diesel which they already have in their parts bin. After all, it would then more match the Lexus hybrid in this class, since it can't tow or go off road either.

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Dave Plowman (News)
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In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes

Yep, it's a more representative number than the official figures, for sure. I'm not convinced by their 27mpg for the high-power version of the RX8, though. Most people seem to get high teens to low twenties. I've only filled mine up once since I picked it up, and it got 17mpg, but that's from 100 miles of "recreational" driving on country backroads. I'm hoping for better than that in normal use but I'll be very pleasantly surprised if I can get AutoCar's figure.

They'd need to give it a fair bit of poke, even with the weight loss.

0-100mph in 21 seconds is fairly nippy for a big barge, if a long way of Cayenne levels. The weight loss would certainly help with economy, but I'm sure a big part of it is drag due to frontal area.

I wonder what sort of economy these big hybrids would get with a diesel engine instead of a petrol one.

True. I've actually been a passenger in an RX300 (normal petrol model) and I have to say it was a very pleasant place to be. More in common with the owner's other car (an Audi A8) than with any kind of all terrain vehicle, though.

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Steve Walker

Have you tried my Datasheet? Thing is, this too only details average consumption.

My commute tends to return between 105% and 115% of the Euromix figure for a given machine, so could extrapolate this from your current machine.

For what it's worth, the Datasheet version I'm working on goes into more detail with fuel consumption, including a "pick your own style" arrangement.

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DervMan

98 Accord?

What engine?

If it's the sixth generation it's somewhere around 25 / 40 / 33.

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DervMan

TBH I don't know off hand. I saw it in a dealers for about £1600 but I was tempted to have a second look but if 40 is about the best then I'll skip it.

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Malc

Where?

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Malc

On the website. I think it's in non-Ka stuff.

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DervMan

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