Dear All;Anyone knows the truth about fuel economy of new Corolla vs Echo hatchback?Corolla is 20% heavier than Echo hatchback.Corolla has 20% more peak horspower than Echo hatchback.Corolla has 20% larger engine displacement than Echo hatchback.Yet, Corolla has only 6% higher city fuel consumption, according to Industry Canada.Yet, Corolla has only 2% higher highway fuel consumption, according to Industry Canada.Any ideas?Free energy discovered by Toyota?Thank you all in advance, Albin.

Since they are almost the same size, wouldn't air drag differencebetween the two be very little? As for weight, isn't that a majorfactore when changing, speed, direction, etc, so at crusing speed thesmall difference in weight is almost unnoticiable?Just curious, maybe the numbers aren't addressing the reall killers offuel economy, like size, shape, and engine stats.later,tom

Echo vs Corolla Fuel Economy, the truth?

Apr 03, 2005 42 Replies

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C. E. White 21 years ago

Well, I am not a metric system fan in general, but I can live with it. I am less confused by litres per 100 km that miles per imperial gallon.

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Gord Beaman 21 years ago

Well...I actually like metric in one measure, temperature, much easier.

Wider graduations, 0 is freezing, 100 boiling, Standard Day is

+15, normal body temp is 37...these are more easily remembered than on the 'F' scale

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C. E. White 21 years ago

I actually think the other way. The Fahrenheit scale is sort of a human scale. 100 degrees is really hot, 0 degrees is really cold and you have a lot finer graduations in between. Here in NC, I mostly live between 0 and 100 F. In Celsius I'd live between -17.8 and 37.8 C. 12.8 C is uncomfortable to me. 23.8 C is near perfect. This is only a 11 degree C swing. 55 to 75 "seems like" a better representation of how I feel as the temperature changes. I suppose this is just what I got used to growing up. Both scales are arbitrary. Mr Fahrenheit picked body temperature for 100 (apparently he was hot blooded or sick) and as cold as he could get water for 0. The metric folks chose water's boiling and freezing at standard pressures for their end points. Of course there is alway Rankine and Kelvin...... If you are working in the big picture world, the larger divisions of the C and K scales are nice.

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