A couple in America have driven their 2012 VW Passat TDI with six speed manual an incredible 1626 miles without refueling. Thats over 2600km in a standard car driven during the day with real traffic conditions and included luggage for two ! Talk about a light foot 🤪 You would really be challenged by driving in such a manner, I mean most people like to rev their engines past 1200rpm.........
h ·
no hills to climb, flat driving with a tailwind prolly
but seriously 🤪
ancientbugger ·
I love the ads on telly where they say something like "800 kms on just one tank of fuel", they don't say how bloody big the fuel tank is though😵💫
Lucky Phil ·
This makes a mockery of the Toyota Prius.
I was told the other day that the carbon footprint of a Prius from birth to death equals that of a Hummer.
Some way to save the planet, right?
grinderman ·
An australian motoring magazine last year compared 2 new VE V6 commodores ( 3.0lt and 3.6lt), a 4.0lt falcon and for interest sake a TDI Passat. When driven on the freeway section of the test the passat returned sub 4lt /100km and they thought they might have done a miscalculation because they couldnt believe a spacious torquey family car could go that low, but I believe it now.
Lucky Phil ·
A mate of mine went to victoria last year in his sd passat. Diesel, i think.
made no real effort to save fuel.
he got 1200 km before refuelling.
vlad01 ·
Lucky Phil wrote:This makes a mockery of the Toyota Prius.
I was told the other day that the carbon footprint of a Prius from birth to death equals that of a Hummer.
Some way to save the planet, right?
worse actually. its beating dead horse. everyone know the prius is a monstrosity with its carbon foot print. Generally the old the car the less the carbon foot print over the life cycle of the car.
vlad01 ·
grinderman wrote:An australian motoring magazine last year compared 2 new VE V6 commodores ( 3.0lt and 3.6lt), a 4.0lt falcon and for interest sake a TDI Passat. When driven on the freeway section of the test the passat returned sub 4lt /100km and they thought they might have done a miscalculation because they couldnt believe a spacious torquey family car could go that low, but I believe it now.
yeah i read that one I think? or was it that ones comparing the flexi fuel comys other the other models?
vlad01 ·
ancientbugger wrote:I love the ads on telly where they say something like "800 kms on just one tank of fuel", they don't say how bloody big the fuel tank is though😵💫
yeah I am not that far from that figure and my car is 20. it means nothing without the tank size.
why don't they just say the L/100km ffs.
matberry ·
vlad01 wrote:why don't they just say the L/100km ffs.
what....advertising using usefull information........are you MAD???
vlad01 ·
matberry wrote:
vlad01 wrote:why don't they just say the L/100km ffs.
what....advertising using usefull information........are you MAD???
Yes, yes I am👍
donn ·
Ha Ha, like my sister telling me a tank of fuel lasts her 3 weeks THATS HOW FUEL EFICIENT MY MAZDA IS !
she goes to the shop 5 k down the road once a day, dosn't know how much she puts in at the end of 3 weeks. 🤪
68BUS ·
I get 1600km out of a fill up and I drive a 4.2litre turbo charged V8 Dielsel Ute.😀
Doesn't matter one little bit that one fillup is about 170 litres.
Joel ·
Lucky Phil wrote:This makes a mockery of the Toyota Prius.
I was told the other day that the carbon footprint of a Prius from birth to death equals that of a Hummer.
Some way to save the planet, right?