Thread: Small diesel cars - Amazing fuel economy

We are at 7.2/100kms in our 2.2 Peugeot 4007, not the 6/100 as advertised but I'm quite happy. Most of our trips are 60 kms at 100kph or so & for a 7 seater it's not bad. Same engine as the Freelander 2 but with the extra seats - which we have used once in nearly 2 years!

Our i30 diesel is sitting on 5.5l/100km according to the dash computer.
That's predominantly cold starts and short(ish) drives around town, and not giving a damn.
Most efficient car I own is the work car. Has never cost me a cent

1 thing ive notice, most diesels in these small cars, between 5 and 10 years all seem to smoke.

I drive a Tesla now (to complement the Land Rovers, of course). About 22kWh/100kms. Goes like a scalded cat. No smoke. Who needs a hybrid

Our Passat easily uses below 5 litres/100kms fully loaded on a trip. One thing I find amazing is after 5 years you can wipe your finger around the inside of the exhaust pipe and it is still clean.

We finally got our small diesel, it's a 2007 Golf 1.9l TDi 6 speed manual, with 54,000ks, goes like the clappers, handles brilliantly, quiet, just a great little car.
I have been averaging between 5l to 5.5l/100ks to and from work, and the best we have got was, 8 days to and from work and a couple of trips to Wollongong and back, 4.5l/100ks for that tank, I put this down to freeway most of the way to the Gong and no inner city driving by the daughter from my work to Strathfield and back, I filled it up with 920ks on the trip meter, I reckon I could have cracked the 1000k mark for a tank if I didn't fill it.

This little gem of a car has now done 80,000ks and is so much fun to drive, we love the Golf.

Baz.

Its amazing how some petrol cars are also becoming so economical. We just traded our Yaris 1.5 auto, which was averaging 7 l/100kms, on a Mazda 2 1.5 with the six-speed auto.
I was impressed to read Mazda claims the six-speed auto can get as low as 4.9 l/100kms when driven economically, although ours is so far averaging about 6 l/100kms in all sorts of driving. Its a demonstrator and had been flogged for 4000 kms, so I expect that average to fall, since we drive pretty gently by comparison with salesmen who drive it like they stole it.
Mazda claims the six-speed auto is actually more economical than the manual.
I guess it just shows how high-pressure fuel injection with precise monitoring is so much more economical than past systems, for both diesel and petrol motors.

I think that the petrol technology will continue to improve - customers really want diesel economy and power , but in a petrol car .....
Manufacturers seem to following this trend also , patrol no longer diesel ,toyota may discontinue the diesel v8 ...