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Old 10-12-2018, 01:54 PM   #137 (permalink)
BdK9001
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Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Netherlands
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Focus - '02 Ford Focus Trend
90 day: 36.75 mpg (US)

Fizzy - '87 Yamaha FS1 2RU
90 day: 59.71 mpg (US)

Polo - '97 Volkswagen Polo
90 day: 36.21 mpg (US)

Golf - '17 Volkswagen Golf Bluemotion Connected
90 day: 48.93 mpg (US)
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Totally agree with Euromodder there. Have driven a few of them over the last few years, but most of them are only fun while staying before the torque drop-off RPM. Above that they're basically gutless. Best example is Peugeot 107 vs Peugeot 108, in low rev's - and especially city driving - the 108's turbo makes it very fun and economic to drive, but as soon as you get to highway speeds (75-80 MPH) it's fuel economy plummets and with a fair bit of headwind it can't even maintain 80MPH in 5th... The 107 has way less torque, but a much more usefull powercurve for highway driving. Same goes for the Peugeot 208 with the 1.2 turbo, off the line it's quite quick, but as soon as you get out of the max-torque area it feels quite scary during overtaking (due to lack of top end HP).

Talking about chariots: I'm off to my horseriding lessons
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