Thread: D5 Getting more fleet deals

Originally Posted by IndusD4

I have the TD6, 190kw.

Ron

Ok, so expect slightly better eccon/range from the 2L 4cyl or does Td6 have bigger tank so about the same all things considered.

We have the 3l SE D5. We use about 13.2l/100km towing a 2.5t off-road van and I measured 8.1l/100 driving Brisbane to Sydney at legal speeds without the van.
Tony

Originally Posted by tony_s

We have the 3l SE D5. We use about 13.2l/100km towing a 2.5t off-road van and I measured 8.1l/100 driving Brisbane to Sydney at legal speeds without the van.
Tony

So that's 580km range from a 77L tank towing 2.5t

And

950km range from a 77L tank not towing.



Cheers

Originally Posted by blackrangie

Yeah fair call when towing, has anyone got any real world figures of a d5 towing a camper trailer and range you get offroad or onroad? Apparently you can't feel what your towing in a D5, for sure she would drink more, but how much? I've heard 15L/100 as an estimate..that gets you around 500ks between drinks.

Would it still be an issue on the blacktop towing with 1000k range to start with, 500ks gets you most places doesnt it?

Me personally im not a fan of towing off-road, but everyone's different and some need to with lots of little ones or accessibility issues for rooftops etc, so for those people agree it could be an issue if their camper can't carry a jerry or 2. I guess the Long Range tanks guys will bring one out if there is a need.

Putting it in perspective the D4 had 83L standard just 5L more and used spprox 9.2L/100 that gave them approx 900km range.

So even though the D5 has less space in the tank it actually has around 100km more range on the blacktop out of the factory.

Regarding fuel consumption, I have the Sd4 engine and have done 16000k. 95% city driving and according to the car, I get about 12l per 100km... I don’t think I have a heavy foot but maybe I do. Highway driving and not towing I get about 9-10l per 100km *and the roof is loaded up with surfboards. Hope that helps.

Originally Posted by kruff73

Regarding fuel consumption, I have the Sd4 engine and have done 16000k. 95% city driving and according to the car, I get about 12l per 100km... I don’t think I have a heavy foot but maybe I do. Highway driving and not towing I get about 9-10l per 100km *and the roof is loaded up with surfboards. Hope that helps.

*correction - Highway driving is 10-11 litres per 100km

Originally Posted by blackrangie

Compare that with the defenders best year recently of 23,000 (2015) before that 17k was the average.

So D5 is currently selling 2.5x that of the defender, not bad sales considering its only relatively new.

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The maximum production for the Defender was only 23-25,000 as that was the production limit!!!!

It was hand built, the line couldn't make any more.

Originally Posted by rick130

The maximum production for the Defender was only 23-25,000 as that was the production limit!!!!

It was hand built, the line couldn't make any more.

Hmm interesting, I'm sure if they had more orders they would have put in more capacity to fulfill those orders , I guess the staff would have really had their work cut out for them in 2014/2015!

Update. Closer to 14.2 l/100km on our latest trip through the Australian Alps!
Tony