In news: snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de, DervMan decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows
you want full tank figures????
Excursion (again) 44 gallon tank, emptied in less than 300 miles most fill ups...
-11mpg my car in a petrol station.
Because there's no need.
Modern Petrol engines already make "enough" power, without the manufacturer having to fit an expensive Turbo setup. The Turbos are saved for the "high-performance" engines like mine and yours.
LOL
22mpg average from my TI, but I've had 18mpg from a "quick week" tank :)
Having said that, it can (and does) easily return 35mpg over a 70mph motorway cruise.
SWMBO's just taken it for a couple of days. She likes it. Women, eh?
Cheers, Andy
Are you mad?
Clearly! I used to get 30-36 in the Ka. Don't bother measuring anymore. Actually, I can imagine that's not too hard if you drive round town a lot and gun it!
Cheers, Andy
Is there any other way? :)
Yes, city consumption is typically 30 to 36. The 25.7 figure was for winter short trips. :-(
Plenty of use of the air conditioning, York's stop start traffic, sees it at
30 mpg.Plenty of use of the air conditioning, sticking to the speed limit over a 30 mile each way commute, sees it at somewhere between 42 mpg (low recorded figure) and 45 mpg (high recorded figure).
17.5mpg from a 1997 Rover 414i over a _full tank_. It involved lots of twisty, wide country B roads, never less than 4500rpm, and a big silly grin (that is, until I came to the petrol pump). Surprisingly much more fun to drive on the limit (and a bit faster too if you used every last rev) than the 1.8 Focus that replaced it.
Andy
I like em in general, although the 1.8s are dramatically underpowered :-/
The 2.0 Zetec's aren't /bad/ are they? 140bhp and quite a wedge of torque?
But suprisingly coarse and boomy for a current production engine....
Hmm - not very economical, noisy, coarse too.
The TDCi 115 is quicker point to point unless you're thrashing.
Noisy wouldn't bother me, i'm used to it :) What do you mean by coarse?
'unless' i am thrashing ;) Well, i'd have the pov spec diesel if i wasn't gonna thrash :D
underpowered
It might if you've driven a few 2.0 or their equivalents in the sector. By coarse, I mean it's a bit rough and ready. The Astra 2.2, as an example, feels refined, smooth, nice sporty growl to it when you're trying hard. The Zetec-E's great engine noise does start to grate after a while.
Not excessively bad, admittedly, but compared to the rest of the sector it's a bit disappointing.
When you see how juicy the 2.0 Focus is, and that one can use 60% of the fuel in the TDCi, one can justify driving the TDCi very hard.... :)
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