Top old cars for efficiency?

GarethK

Xantia's have 65 litre tanks, with up to 5 litres as a reserve. I find 1000 miles a tank unbelievable...

BobToo

My 2000 Xantia Estate had a bigger tank than my 1997 hatch, although I can't remember how much it took. The HDi Xantias can do 50mpg on mixed work with a relatively brisk driving style (Mine had over 180k miles up and it is still achieving that sort of figure) so I imagine they would easily exceed 60mpg on a long run with gentle driving and even more if you used "hypermiling" techniques.

As for official figures for older cars, or even new cars- they are almost completely useless. Manufacturers optimise their cars for the best headline figures. The car with the best 0-60 time and top speed may be painfully slow in real life (I'm looking at you, Honda) and it's a similar story with the mpg figures.

Ray-N

I get 135 miles from 35 litres of petrol round the town and 350 miles from 55 litres on a long traffic free m/way run but if I hit traffic mileage goes down to about 300 miles from 55 litres,

BobToo

That means your car is doing between 11mpg and 29mpg, depending on conditions. Out of interest do you know what your car's official figures are?

pianeet

i used to have a peugeot 106 1,5diesel about 10 years ago and always got over 800 miles to a tank it was a 45l tank so about 18mpl ,ps i still see it around and it has 180,000 miles on the clock now,

ohreally

I'm just happy to get over 300 miles from a tank - it's usually considerably less.

Ray-N

BobToo wrote: »

That means your car is doing between 11mpg and 29mpg, depending on conditions. Out of interest do you know what your car's official figures are?

I never believe what the official figures say because I dont care,what I was getting at is if anyone complains about their fuel figures(and I'm not)get a more frugal car.