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Originally Posted by Polar
As a matter of fact, I've just driven our A2 all the way to our holiday resort in southern France and back, over 2500 km / 1500 miles in all, most of which (slowly) on the highway, but also several tens of kilometers on fairly steep hills, and sacrificing fuel economy in some nasty traffic jams as well. With wife, kids (2 toddlers) and luggage, so in all weighing in an extra 200 kg / 400 lbs, I still managed a decent 2.6 l/100 km (90 MPG). Hypermiled carefully though, a Lupo or A2 3L will still do well better than 2.4 l/100 km / 100 MPG, as both my fuel logs and fellow-owners' at spritmonitor.de will tell. But from my experiences, that's about the best you can realistically do, or for that matter, will ever see any bog-standard non-hybrid car capable of. Moreover, bear in mind these cars were designed over a decade ago.
Btw, your Lupo's weight you mentioned in its specs is prolly in kg and not in lbs. 830 kg = 1830 lbs.
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What is your slowly? 80 km/h?
Corrected that weight.
Today made the second fillup and was able to reach 3.14 l/100km actual speeds are on the fuel log. With full P&G mode @ 86 km/h was able to reach 2.4-2.5 l/100km figures on the cars computer.
Also the start & stop system works
. Also with lights on and even with radio on fan. It might depend more on the altenator load so if your battery has power it can shut down more easily.
I will have a meeting with Nokian passenger tire department later on August after summer holiday season. Because you are rigth that I need all the help to reach that 2 liter target. I have my own idea of what I would need on my Lupo and its not regular tire at all. dont know if its possibly to manufacture or not but they can propably answer my questions. First I need to get to proper range with the gears before they can help me more.
I think I have ABS as a standard.