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2010 Ford Focus LV MKII TDCi (2 litre turbo-diesel/6-sp manual).

Why? Well the old Magna was using at least a tank a week @ 68 litres a go.

The Focus does at least 800km/tank in winter (summer more - around 850km) on 53 litres and for a diesel goes really well, nearly as well as the 3.5l Magna. Funny enough I blew a tyre last week and had to drive down the freeway at 80km/h on a space-saver spare and found if you were willing to drive in 5th at 80km/h (and I'm not) you could do nearly 1600km/tank as it was showing 3.4l/100km all the way down to the nearest big town. That's better than a hybrid and actually better than my Hornet . Normal economy is around 6.5l/100km.

The missus has a 2011 Ford Fiesta TDCi (1.6 litre turbo-diesel/5-sp manual). Smaller tank so doesn't go quite as far, but also goes really well. Only odd thing is that I feel like I'm sitting in a roller skate when I'm driving it. Better economy, offset by the smaller engine revving a bit harder...overall not much difference, around 6.0l/100km.

Good having manuals as it means #1 son won't ask to drive them as he got his license in an auto .

Mick

Hate to break it to ya 4.5-5l/100 km with the priusV

You must be doing a lot of freeway stuff to get 6.5 out of the focus.
We don't do any freeway in our focus, and we get 5.6l per 100 all the time.
Less if I drive it, because Michelle forgets to use 6th gear all the time in the 80km zones.
When we took it on hols when it was new, sittin in 110-120 returned about 6l per 100. They don't do good consumption sittin over 2000 revs.

TyM2Go wrote:Hate to break it to ya 4.5-5l/100 km with the priusV

A bmw m3 gets better fuel consumption than a Prius. Check YouTube for the top gear test.

TyM2Go wrote:Hate to break it to ya 4.5-5l/100 km with the priusV

Thats' still not as good as the Focus at 80km/h in 5th

Mick

Wattie wrote:You must be doing a lot of freeway stuff to get 6.5 out of the focus.
We don't do any freeway in our focus, and we get 5.6l per 100 all the time.
Less if I drive it, because Michelle forgets to use 6th gear all the time in the 80km zones.
When we took it on hols when it was new, sittin in 110-120 returned about 6l per 100. They don't do good consumption sittin over 2000 revs.

Yeah, it's freeway to get anywhere up here, the 6.5l/100km is the around town/dirt road/freeway mix. If you sit on the freeway all day it drops down under 5.5l/100km.

Mick

BrettZZR wrote:...............

On the back is my other car - busy preparing the CRX as a road registered track toy


2lt (CRV) block, VTec head, forged internals, Quaife LSD, custom dry sump set-up, KW suspension, Wilwood brakes, blah blah blah...

If anybody is interested I can post the whole build thread with pics...

(-8

cool...
looks something like my GrpA Commodore during its build for track usage...



which now runs PI and a few other tracks...

Awesome!

I'd like to say "a hard bargain" but it just aint true

2oo4 Fiesta. Really mostly gets used to do the shopping.

My 2002 Nissan s15

Also have a Mitsubishi tr magna wagon for running around.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOICCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEee

This is whats in my garage, atm..

and a jeep....

.....SHOWOFF!

Hired a corvette in Vegas...great fun...nice Dave