Deflated Prius owner.

[willsy01]

I'm getting 9l/100 around town in the WRX.....it gets a decent serve of welly on a regular basis as well.

[Uncle]

A gun would of fixxed this problem.

[TonyJZX]

the prius runs on smugness not octane

[Zac]

Pete your average fuel consumption didn't even count accelerating to 90?

[polishstorm]

haha funny

[Sturmovik]

My EL on Gas uses about 10-11L/100km on the highway sitting on 120kmh. To get a better $ per km value you'd have to be using less than 4.5L/100kms on a petrol/diesel driven car Its a pity the tank is so small, a usable 100L tank would be nice.

[TJ]

I use a tank of fuel in 180kms if im belting is hard, and I dont give two shits.

Economy? pfftt

p e r f o r m a n c e f o r u m s

Weak bitches, quite likely the gayest thread Ive read on here in some time.

[BigMuz]

I think the average car uses maybe 2 or 3 litres per hour idling, so it's naff-all really anyway.
The only real advantage is the lack of emissions when not using the petrol engine.

2 litres an hour when you average 30 km/hr in the city is BIG news.

Is it right that the VY was the last of the lean burn ecus? My mate had a company car VY that would do 350 kays around town and then on a trip to the nats got a thousand kays no worries driven normally. There was a huge difference in fuel burn between urban and highway cycle; especially when it was light.

[BigMuz]

Oh yeah I emptied the VK's tank in a bit over a hundred kays once. Holley FTW :D

[Asteroid]

I get around 6L/100 thrashing the pants off my well worn, 15yr old auto corolla diesel :D

[VE Safari]

The MRS' VE SV6/6m averages 14l/100km around town (roughly 500km from a tank). My VE Slant 6/3a averages 16.5l/100km. I give no fark for economy.

[Calibrator]

Polo TDI returned 5l/100 travelling at 140km/h with 3 people and luggage. Travelling uphill from the coast to JHB That was the average over 600 odd km average speed on onboard was 120km/h.
Going down was even better.

[SPDRCR]

Anyone seen this episode of South Park?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3UDyuPgEwY

hehe

[Beavis]

My 1.9L Saturn (piece of shit) beater gets 6.12L/100km. It was made in 1994 and is well over 170,000mi old... Prius owners are hippies, and around here we punch hippies.

[Captain_Slow]

The Prius doesn't work on that sort of trip because the engine has to run pretty well all of the time IIRC - which then leaves you with a 1.5 litre engine working hard to lug around a heavy car. I think Wheels drove one from Sydney to Melbourne a couple of years ago and the economy was unimpressive for that reason.

Around the city, I'd guess the Prius would have well and truly beaten the VY (although I'd like to see a proper comparison to see how big the difference would be).

And for the record, in my VE SS M6, sitting on 110km/h cruise from Canberra to Sydney, 9.5l/100km is within easy reach. (More like 13-13.5l/100km around town, but that's in Canberra). I don't have anywhere I can set the cruise for 90km/h for long periods, so I don't know how my car compares with the VY and Prius on a like-for-like basis.