Hi folks,
Last week I had a Dacia Lodgy to drive.
I drove around 200 miles over 4 days, with some traffic congestion, hooligan driving here and there (the nut behind the wheel gets loose frome time to time) I used it the city or highway (up to 83 mph), the vehicle is tall and aerodynamics is probably poor, and still it returned 45 mpg.
I have been well impressed, especially when I took my old car afterwards, feels very much heavy, is more streamlined and I am babying it a lot and yet it is an achievement to exceed 45 mpg with it.
Actually, my youngest son (2 1/2 y/o) doesn't want to climb in my car anymore and asks for the other one !
The engine in the Dacia is Renault's finest : the 1.5 DCi in 90hp form : very nice accelerations, no lag what so ever / very responsive and smooth and still this bloody good FE ...
No wonder they managed to sell it to Mercedes Benz too ...