Which of these compact cars will go furthest on 50 liters (13.2 US gallons), driven in a convoy over the same route & conditions?
The web site CanadianDriver.com is holding a competition to find out just that.
(Links are to vehicle specs @ CanadianDriver.com)
Note: this is an
actual contest for $150 in free gas open to Canadian residents at
http://www.canadiandriver.com/articl...lenge-2008.htm
The web site will be running this fleet of cars over a predetermined route next weekend, with results to be posted the following week.
The fly in the ointment is we're not told in advance which cars are equipped with manual vs. auto transmissions. Surprisingly, when the web site ran a similar contest in 2005, half of the vehicles supplied by the automakers came with slushboxes.
In the previous contest, the vehicles were driven "normally" - with A/C on, brisk acceleration, passing other traffic, etc. The majority of the routes however, were secondary highways in Ontario, which means a speed limit of 80 km/h (50 mph).
The Civic won that year, travelling 1022 km on 50 L, followed by a Corolla at 911 km.
My money's on the Civic again this year.
