Deflated Prius owner.

[Billzilla]

But he said he was doing 90? Wouldn't that make up the difference? They are bloody frugal at highway speeds.

Well yeah it may well be - But after years of dealing with the instruments in the crappy planes I fly, I'm often trying to find ways to confirm that what I'm seeing it correct.

For example, a few days ago from Penang to Dubai, the fuel remaining at each waypoint was varying up up to two tonnes up & down - In one hour we'd 'lose' 1.7 tonnes, then in the next hour we'd have 'made' 2 tonnes. At the maximum rate of loss it was getting to the point where I was going to either have to decided to divert into Muscat or maybe even Mumbai for fuel.
That's bad.
That kind of variation just can't happen, so I quizzed the Flight Engineer to about an alternate way ot determining how much fuel we had, and using that method the consumption was far more even. So problem solved.

My point being that you can't always trust the clocks in the plane.
The one in the Commodore may have been under-reading.
The one in the Prius may have been over-reading.
Ya just don't know until you perform a series of checks.

[Pete]

Har-har .....
His driving must be rather poor to get that consumption out of it.

But also have you checked how accurate you computer is?

Yeah that's what I thought as well.
Maybe when he gets a bit more experience it will get better.

The fuel computer in the Commodore is accurate to 0.01 ltr/ 100 km. I checked it over about 2 500 kms when I first got it because there were stories at the time about the software being out and the fuel consumption reading being out as well.

Pete.

[Billzilla]

Yeah that's what I thought as well.
Maybe when he gets a bit more experience it will get better.

The fuel computer in the Commodore is accurate to 0.01 ltr/ 100 km. I checked it over about 2 500 kms when I first got it because there were stories at the time about the software being out and the fuel consumption reading being out as well.

Pete.

Thanks.
Well there ya go - You thrashed him fair & square then. :D

[08ESE]

fuck the prius

my jazz sits constantly on 6.0 ( and 6.6 around town ) at 100kmh on the hwy without the air cond. with a big tailwind on the way to cairns, the trip meter read 5.3L per 100.

jam ya heavy prius expensisve batteries, and ill keep the extra 20 grand in my pocket from the purchase price.

oh, and the jazz may be a slug..... but itd eat a prius!

[Stix Zadinia]

Fark I never saw below 8 but still good going!

Lucky to see 10 with the AU

i got around 9.5 on a trip to NSW recently in an AU2 4.0l...

Pete: you do 90 on the freeway?

[Billzilla]

fuck the prius

my jazz sits constantly on 6.0 ( and 6.6 around town ) at 100kmh on the hwy without the air cond. with a big tailwind on the way to cairns, the trip meter read 5.3L per 100.

jam ya heavy prius expensisve batteries, and ill keep the extra 20 grand in my pocket from the purchase price.

oh, and the jazz may be a slug..... but itd eat a prius!

I use a Perodua Kancil in KL and it gets about 350km to a 20 litre tank, or about 5.7 L/100km. That's a fair bit of around town stuff as well.
(But a fat chick on a pushbike could beat it)

[GTSBoy]

I use a Perodua Kancil in KL and it gets about 350km to a 20 litre tank, or about 5.7 L/100km. That's a fair bit of around town stuff as well.
(But a fat chick on a pushbike could beat it)

Actually, those things look like a fat chick on a pushy.

[gti6]

I got a flat 8L/100 in a hunk of shit VP commodore going 120kph Gosford>Sydney with a Falcon diff in the boot, so they can do reasonable figures if driven carefully.

[F|sh]

i use a 660cc handi van round home and i get about 370km's to a 20L tank

[Coolie]

You could have added the "And I dont have to worry about all that nasty battery disposal in a few years too"

[Paddington]

You went on the highway in a Festiva? Poor bastard. Did you get lost or take a wrong turn?

missus drove her festiva down from syd to melb. no worries. sat on 120 the whole way she reckoned.

I did nearly 500 kays in the same festiva yesterday from melb, castlemaine, bendigo, castlemaine again, etc. used 20 bucks worth of petrol. bargain.

[CussCuss]

while the prius itself may be a steaming hunk o turd, it has a done a lot to the auto industry as far as accepting a hybrid as a mainstream car on the road.
Theres a fair whack of plug in hybrids about to be shown at the Frankfurt auto show by the majors. i.e toyota, GM etc

[Mooro]

1.3L Echo...we get a consistent 6.2L/100kms around town. Haven't done any country driving but they are supposed to be below 5L/100kms

[The Pupat]

If there is 1 thing ford and holden have got nailed it's fuel economy on the highway. Good mapping and gearing makes it easy to get fuel figures down. Even my mx5 wouldn't get 6.5 on a highway run...

[smellytofu]

4.6L/100km from Sydney to Canberra and back in the auto Jazz.. was quite impressed.. well, that is according to the trip computer in the car.

That guy is pretty much an idiot... or the fuel burnt has eaten away into the brain cells.