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Hiya all

Belated greetings for the New Year.

Was wondering on the real world efficacy of these so called Fuel Efficient cars, as we are considering getting one.

Everyone I speak to seems to think that 12 Km per liter is about realistic in day to day stop start traffic city driving.

Anyone like to shed some light on this - ideally from experience?

Cheers

prad

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hey Pradfred we were wondering where u were!

i made a post asking abt you earlier on today on the ALg2g thread! :lol:

on the issue of efficiency , i honestly don't know if everyone is perfectly honest with those figures..

it would be interesting to know what a genuine figure might like for say a Suzuki Swift? :huh:

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on the issue of efficiency , i honestly don't know if everyone is perfectly honest with those figures..

ha ha ha i'm with you on this.

are you already fed up with the A33? come on mate don't lose your hopes just yet on the SC and the opposition lol

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hey Pradfred we were wondering where u were!

i made a post asking abt you earlier on today on the ALg2g thread! :lol:

Hey Z,

yup man .No Bb now so a bit slow on the net.....

will makew an extra effort to clog up more space lol.

Yeah I agree on the honesty part for the numbers as there are wild claims of 20 KMs per litre for a Dhaihatsu Charade ( new one) to 16 - 18 for the new Toyota Vitz.

Also heard that those ridiculously over priced Toyota Allions command those prices as they do

" very well" on fuel.

Maybe we can get some input from some road testers who can do a group test? Will put some figures onto these claims?

How is the 300ZX doing? I am havimg withdrawal symptoms man......:):unsure:

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Hiya all

Belated greetings for the New Year.

Was wondering on the real world efficacy of these so called Fuel Efficient cars, as we are considering getting one.

Everyone I speak to seems to think that 12 Km per liter is about realistic in day to day stop start traffic city driving.

Anyone like to shed some light on this - ideally from experience?

Cheers

prad

Hey Prad,

Welcome back...!! how was the vacation??

on the subject matter, I believe the results depend on the way one drives the machine.. I mean, you can put Charitha into a Maruti, and it will not give you the figures it should, cos of hard driving, heavy foot.. (Charitha - no offence)

Basically we need to define certain evaluation criteria, like may be road trip from point A to B and then measure the average.

All in all, cars like March K11 is crap on fuel economy.

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hi Prad,

Machan i think even through people say all these figures it depends on lot of things

when some one says Colombo running - ,

when i used to travel from kaduwela to rajagiriya in traffic including colombo running i used to get 9km - 9.5km/ltr per Full tank ( From My wifes place ) . at the same time when i travel from kohuwala( From my house ) to rajagiriya & in colombo it does only about 7 - 8 and got 8.5 - 9 on the 15"wheels instead of 16"s

if i advertise my car saying 9-10km/lt & the guy who buys it travels from dehiwala to bamba he will shoot me within a month

same way daihatsu charade Box shape 32 non turbo one of my friends were getting 17 km/ltr from kiribathgoda to fort , that bugger goes most of the time in the 3rd lane so most of the time he's moving . same car was bought by another friend of mine in kalubowila & he was going to maradana & the car was doing around 10 - 12

talk to a guy who goes to colombo from kottawa, homagama area, they wont belive when we say 7km/ltr in City running they they most ly get 10 ,12 , 13 on avg sedans .

just my too cents , think about these also when you are looking at fual consumption with the other aspects.

As velo city pointed out in a different thread ( some time back) as long as you are happy with the amount of money goes for a month on fuel dont worry about the milage, as we are spending lot of unnessasory money for other thngs,

( i dont ageee on this fully & still checking ways to increase my fuel consumption, thats human nature i guess )

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