German journalists eke out 73 mpg in a production car
All credit goes to http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/06...roduction-car/
Who translated the German article.
This time, a high mile per gallon number was recorded in Europe and not with a Peugeot. A group of German motor journalists managed to get 3.2 l/100 km (73 mpg U.S.) in a Skoda Fabia TDI Greenline. The car had a 1.4 TDI (diesel) engine good for 80 HP. The thirty-six journalists (we're guessing not all of them at the same time) drove the Czech subcompact for 124 km (about 80 miles), using normal highways between Austria and Germany and never going below 60 km/h (40 mph). The only "trick" they used was maintaining as constant a speed as possible. The 73mpg figure handily beats the official EU highway cycle figure, which is 4.1 l/100 km (57mpg). Skoda belongs to the VW group and is based in the Czech Republic.
I wish they sell those diesel engines/cars here in the states. Of course the cost of diesel here is about a dollar more than regular gasoline. Of course there is off-road diesel...
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