Lowest km before empty

**aaronng** · 19-01-2007 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by tony1234

The fuel economy on the Euro is excellent.I heard of a guy who drove from Syd.to Melb. on one tank!!Isn't that approx.1000ks?

I calculated my fuel consumption. The Euro could have done that (I'm in melb at the moment), and still have 20-40km of range left in the tank. (plus I did about 6 full throttle runs up to 110km/h, so the remaining range would have been higher if I drove like a miser.

**tron07** · 24-01-2007 08:03 AM

I drove until 2km left yesterday... I thought it might go to 0 before I reach the caltex station.

**tony1234** · 24-01-2007 08:20 AM

Originally Posted by tron07

I drove until 2km left yesterday... I thought it might go to 0 before I reach the caltex station.

You win!!

**aday** · 24-01-2007 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by tony1234

The fuel economy on the Euro is excellent.I heard of a guy who drove from Syd.to Melb. on one tank!!Isn't that approx.1000ks?

I averaged 6.7l/100km on my last trip from Adelaide to Sydney (calculated between refills; my 05 has no trip computer). That's almost 1000km from a tank, and I certainly wasn't feathering the throttle the whole way.

Mind you, my around-town consumption is significantly higher.

**Type R Positive** · 24-01-2007 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by tony1234

The fuel economy on the Euro is excellent.I heard of a guy who drove from Syd.to Melb. on one tank!!Isn't that approx.1000ks?

I have got about 900kms out of a tank when I drove from Hedland to Perth.
That was all at ~130 - 140km/h.

**blueoval** · 24-01-2007 11:41 PM

This sounds like great fuel figures guys. I am amazed at the impressive stats these engines have

**aday** · 25-01-2007 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by blueoval

This sounds like great fuel figures guys. I am amazed at the impressive stats these engines have

Yep, and to top it off, good power and tractability too.

Around town, I usually see about 600km before the low-fuel light comes on, and my driving style is, how shall we say, not conducive to good fuel consumption. Interestingly, I usually get better overall consumption from the Euro than from my other regular driver, a current Golf 2.0 FSI 6-speed auto.

**blueoval** · 25-01-2007 10:10 AM

These cars are underrated IMHO.

I test drove a manual euro on the weekend and was pleasantly surprised a the great sound, power and handling. It felt like i was in the subaru with the handling.

The fuel figures I would have expected to be more in the 10s basing it on the power, but it sounds like Honda are the dark horse in the way of refinement etc. in all aspects.