Funnily enough, I just filled my car with $55 worth of fuel. It was 1.42 a litre I think. I'll let you know how far I get on it! I have an AH Astra (I think that's right) but will have to account for the fact I live on dirt, it's manual and there are a lot of hills!! I'll get back to you when I run out
I have a Statesman 5.7L V8 - average L/100km is 11-12. I do a bit of highway driving as well as around town so I think it's pretty economical for the type of car it is..
I did have a toyota celsior v8, a full tank would cost $97-$120 (depending on premium or regular used, we used to swap every time) it would easily do 5-600k's on that.
I now have a holden commodore v6 on gas, $36 to fill the tank and do the same distances!
BW, your dad's theory works for us too - i love getting a long trip cos it blows the cobwebs out (as my dad puts it) and the car runs smoother. i used to do a decent trip daily for work, so we never had the drop in fuel economy, but we're noticing it now that we're living in town and lots of shorter trips.
I have a Mazda 323 which costs me between $50-70 to fill depending how much petrol is. I get around 650km to a tank. Like BG I do longer trips and find the fuel economy is better. I drove just under 200km on 1/4 of a tank last Friday.
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Commodore V6 with sports pack - about 10 litres per 100km - about 2/3rd of driving is on highways.
Suzuki Swift - 6 litres per 100km - closer to 3/4 highway driving. Depends a lot on how much DH is being a leadfoot. When we had the Colt it was 5 litres.
DH has always been big on our cars having decent runs. Especially when we lived in Melbourne and did so much stop start driving. We always welcomed the big drive to NSW and back.
I actually did this in the little Pulsar last week, and managed to get 10 point something per hundred k's 10.6 maybe. I got just over 400 k's to the tank. It's an auto, so not all that economical. (Manual, same car can get 600-700km per tank)
The reason autos are less economical than manuals is the fact that they (usually) rev harder between gear changes, thus using a bit more fuel. And often, they have one less gear than the manual equivalent of the same vehicle. Ie, the Pulsar I drive is a three speed auto, where as the same model manual is a five speed box. Travelling at 100km/h, it does make a big difference.
Helle, I was going to say that about sucking up all the garbage when running a car till it's almost empty. The sludge and cr*p that accumulates in fuel tanks is unbelievable. It really is sludge and bad for engines (says me who still does it )
Kind of impressed with my new Outlander - cracking 570km to a tank, is usually around $65-75 to fill depending on price. Length of time that lasts is deceptive as at the moment it's mostly getting driven on weekends.
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