Best Fuel Economy achieved?

[dieselhead]

You don't want to know, it will make you weep with desire

word digifish!
i am not that kind though and i will tell: how's 6,200km (brand new car), average speed 45km/h, driven with no economy in mind in Adelaide Metro only, @ 6.4 l/100km?

[Greggy]

You don't want to know, it will make you weep with desire

digifish.

Aint that the truth

(mines not the CDTi though - just a lowly 'low pressure' Diesel (lower then the normal DTi) .......bloomin Vauxhall people......

[xplosv57]

My best in the Astra was 680km to 46l = 6.7l/100km, that was one tank on the way to adelaide!!! That total trip was around 7l/100km, and most was spent revving quite high and with a heavy carload, so i was impressed!!!

Well thats all out the window when i pick up my Gen III next week lol!!!!

[Vectracious]

Best I got in the Vectra was an "indicated" average (ie on the Trip computer) of 5.8L/100km when I was commuting between Cowes and Inverloch for a few weeks - when I would fill up, the DTE would say something like 870km sometimes!!

[jerrypufflewell]

Best I have got from memory was 6.4L- Once on a ********* cruise (where I wasn't exactly conserving fuel... must've been the long drive to the meet), and once on a trip to Melbourne (included about an hour or so inching through traffic- new road was opening up so traffic mayhem!)

[entice]

Best?

dunno really.
I know my average is currently at 8.6L/100km's, with a total of 16500Km's travelled, and average speed of 33km/h (so u can see by that low average speed it aint a freeway bunny). I live in the inner city suburbs, work in inner city suburbs, and travel thru the city daily (work's on the otehr side of teh city)
All this from a petrol powered 1.8L Astra H wagon, running on 225/40/18 stickies.

Same commuting, STi, 12.5L/100km's
Same commuting, 1975 124 CC sport twin weber sidedraughts, 13L/100km's..(this one has been set up for open road cruising, not city commuting, hence teh consumption)

Most comfortable? Astra
Most powerful and easiest to deal with fellow commuters? STi.. but u hav eto master teh clutch for traffic use (it is asoft pedal, but not a soft clutch..bugger up the transition, and u either bunnyhop/jarr or slingshot)
Most rewarding... 124 especially aurally

[entice]

Oh, we got over 700 Km's out of the wife's 'vert on a round trip to lakes entrance (melb-lakes entrance). i think it was around 6.8 (or was it 7.2?) L/100Km's. Not bad considering it was the time when vic had it's bushfires, and we had teh roof down whenever we could deal with the smoke.

[TonyfromOz]

I used to religiously keep fuel figures for all my cars in the early days, and it was easy because the old standard was Miles per gallon. Easy. divide the miles by the gallons.
Now the standard is litres per 100 kilometres, the calculation is a little more difficult.
The easiest way to accurately calculate is from full tank to full tank.
Fill the tank. Write down the Odo reading. Drive. Fill the tank. write down the Odo reading. Do the math.

We recently drove to Rockhampton in the Astra. We made it on one full tank.
Distance - 715 Km. Fuel - 51.31 Litres. Divide 51.31 by 7.15. Hence 7.18 Litres per 100 Km. The math conversion back to Miles per gallon comes in at 39.38 Miles per gallon.

Now. Take me back to 1969 just after I bought that first new Corolla, and I was in the Air Force. I could fill up at the servo on the base and pay a Military subsidsed 29 Cents per gallon for Super, and that works out at 6.4 Cents per litre. No wonder we pine for those 'good old days, eh!

Tony.

[Tfer]

723kms from 53 litres of 98 PULP (Veccy C 3.2l manual CDXi)

[Calibrated]

km/l is the way ive always worked it..it makes more sense than l/100