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wow., that's really high. my 10 year '97 old kia pride does 13 kms in heavy traffic driving (specially in Manila, Philippines where traffic is terrible).
also kia philippines is advertising their automatic transmission kia picanto to do 20 kms per liter.
does this mean that the bigger Toyota Altis consumes less gasoline (the 16 li engine model does 12 kms / li) and the Toyota Vios (the 13 li engine mode does 15 - 17 kms / li)
are there other reports on the picanto's fuel consumption?
These "official" figures seem to be bullshit to me. I'm a 62-year old Kiwi with a moderate right foot. On the open road I drive at 95-100 and round town 50-55. No jump starts, crash braking or tearaway from the lights. Car has done 17k klicks and I've had it from new. It's a 2006 1.1 auto.
Highway is 7.5-8 l/100km - town is 8-8.5. I'm not enormously impressed. I'm not sure if there's anything I can do to improve these figures .....
When I started clocking distances and times on a Navman GPS I discovered that the speedo seems to be 5-10% "fast" ie 100 ks real shows as 105 ks on the odo. That makes it even worse .......
Open to suggestions. I wonder if a bit of rechipping would give me a leaner burn at cruise. Yeah I know - rechipping is usually done for the opposite reason.
I am a 50 yr old Kiwi with a moderate right foot. I have a 2006 auto and I am getting 12k to the litre at a steady 100 km. I bought the car on the strength of its fuel economy. I got better fuel economy from my wife's 1990 1800 Nissan Bluebird auto. I am not happy.
Bought new 1.1LS manual on 1st September 2007. Have already done about 2000 miles. Been to France last week. I've kept a careful record of fuel consumption since new. Lowest has been 43.9 mpg. (first week or so) Highest was when I was driving on the French RN roads. I got 54.2 mpg. Motorway driving has returned about 46 mpg. No complaints. Who wants an automatic anyway? Only whinge is that I thought I was going to get the same spec as the LX. Oh no! No colour coded side trims or front grill, plus other stuff. Ah well. Can have everything.
Found a real good site [url=http://www.oneshift.com] - it's a Singapore based one that reviews a whole lot of cars and collects user gas consumption figures. They actually show all the figures that users have submitted. There are the usual disclaimers, but looking at the Picanto, Toyota Yaris, Nissan Micra, Suzuki Swift etc one comes to a couple of general conclusions
Manuals do mpgs in the low to middle 40's, autos are in the mid to high 30's. 12 km/litre = 8.3 l/110ks = about 34 mpg ......
It seems little cars pay a fuel consumption penalty of 15% or so for the convenience of a torque converter based auto. All of them.
pls clarify - before you converted to LPG you consume 9li / 100 kms - meaning 11.11 kms / li fuel consumption
Yes. that's right.
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Originally Posted by hanzel371
now that you converted to LPG you consume 10-11li / 100kms or 9 kms / li. this means you consume more fuel now that its running on LPG?
I mean, still 9 l of gas / 100 km or 10-11 l of LPG / 100 km.
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Originally Posted by hanzel371
how was the LPG installed in the trunk? does that mean you no longer have trunk space? how do you get the spare tire out?
Well, first of all, I don't have a spare tire. On our market, Picas are sold without a spare tire but with a set to repair a tire (pump and a kind of fluid or gel that you put into a tire). But I still have a place for the sparetire and now that is the place where the LPG trunk is put.
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