Indeed, we use the car in Norfolk! The wife drives into town (around 20 miles) to work so it gets a few stop start cycles but nothing like London! Bit of 80mph dual carriage way on as well.
I bet ALL cars average to about the same in London don't they? Sitting at idle, stationary, gallons per hour is 0.2 according to the trip computer or
0.3 if you switch air-con on!
It's not a bad car, but 170bhp driving the front wheels is never a good idea IMHO, even if they fit a flashing light on the dash to help (which it doesn't). Still the gearing is longish in 5th so it's quiet.
Yes, I thought that too during a decade of driving Vauxhalls. After a change of make and driving some other makers cars too, I came to the conclusion that Vauxhall didn't use a good suspension or half decent front wheel drive system.
I'm currently driving the most powerful front wheel drive car I've ever owned and understeer/torque steer/lack of grip/poor suspension control in corners are now consigned to the history books for me. It has shown me that you *can* actually put a tremendous amount of power and torque through the front wheels perfectly well. I was fooled for years by Vauxhall and their dealers but I will never return to that marque again.
I see now that they were simply under-invested, under-developed, cheap cars for the masses. The last one I had (the final straw) had no clue how to corner. It was perfectly happy to understeer like mad. You could put it on full lock and just use the accelerator to go round roundabouts..what a joke. Good riddance I say..
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