Originally Posted by
Alix
[*]Syd/Mel @ 8.6L/100km? On country roads I get 5.5L/100km in the CDTi. With only 4000kms on it now. That's quite a saving by my calculator - about 35%. In fact, my fuel consumption was up a bit on the last tank, because I'd done a lot of short trips to and from work on a cold engine (<10mins) and dragged a lot of trailers full of gravel around. With 100km to go I was showing an average of 7.8L/100km. I went for a fang last weekend out along Cotter Road, east of Canberra - some nice twisty bits there. 70kms later the average consumption reading had dropped to 7.7L/100km. There's no fuel penalty in driving the CDTi harder - which is part of the attraction.]".