Thread: DEFENDER 110 ECONOMY

So many factors, so many chips, hills, weight ranges, weight of feet,...

Just say the Landy is 14/100

Matthew2,

Like any car it wholly depends on the way you drive it. Td5's aren't renowned for their fuel economy, but if you cruise at the legal speedlimit of 110kmp/h there is no reason you should get any worse than 11liters/100km unladen and running stock configurations. Obviously taking something shaped like your garden shed up over the speed limit will drop the economy significantly!

Driving style in town is even more apparent as it's got enough torque to have nice short shifts and keeping the pedal off the floor will return around the same. If you drive it like you stolen it you can easily get it as bad as 20liter/100km!

A stock td5 should normally do better than 14l/100km, but it does depend on the type of driving.

I've had between 8.5 (experiment to get max economy) and 13.5l/100km (110 on highway loaded plus 1.5t of trailer).
That said, it typically returns between 10 and 11 in general use. That's fairly lightly loaded, standard tune, without a roof rack - mainly urban and a bit of highway.

What does he say the Nissan Gets?

What does he say the Nissan Gets? The Nissans I have owned haven't been renowned for frugality.

My stock tuned TD5 usually did about 12.5 at high speed
I now have a Tombie chip and regularly get less than 11
Oh and it flies

The other aspect of this is the Land Rover is a 4x4 the Nissan is well a cheaply made Japanese ute

Originally Posted by Disco44

What does he say the Nissan Gets? The Nissans I have owned haven't been renowned for frugality.

Umm. Reading the first post I got...

The nissan is 15/100 but the sticker says 10/100 .

Quarks. Good to hear but maybe I was being a little too subtle. 15/100-1=14/100. It's better

Alan

Originally Posted by djam1

The other aspect of this is the Land Rover is a 4x4 the Nissan is well a cheaply made Japanese ute

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