Quote:
Originally Posted by Hersbird
Our ethanol mandate hurts some,
|
European fuel contains Ethanol too.
Quote:
|
Your 34.9 mpg in a 2014 1.6 L car doesn't seem all that great to me but if it is all city with a payload then that's pretty good. Then again a city in WA like say Perth at the worst is probably much better then a warm city like LA with bad traffic. I would say it's more like Vegas or Phoenix, where I bet some pretty good city averages can be found.
|
I parked my Renault next to a Range Rover and took a photo from overhead, it wasn't that much smaller (unfortunately my SD card crashed). My average speed in peak hour can struggle to beat 10mph. My tank averages under 20mph, most days I don't get to go over 40mph. It might be a 2014 model, but the engine dates back to 2001. Closest thing you can get in the US is the Ford Transit Connect, rated 22mpg (10.7l/100km) City (a more modest 10% discrepancy - but it uses a modern DI engine and the auto might be 'helping').
You guys seem to have massive roads that when I watch the odd YouTube, usually have next to no traffic on them, even suburban roads seem to have a massive capacity. Nothing like that exists in Australia, infact much of my commute is on a single lane road, because the other lane was converted to a peak bus lane...
My broader reason for starting this thread is to compare peoples EPA vs NEDC vs real world results. I could Google them up myself but owners are better positioned to know if their cars are the same in Europe Vs USA.
I know the Toyota 86 is the same around the world so 25mpg EPA vs 7.1 NEDC or 33MPG. So a 30% difference.