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Originally Posted by niky
The problem with the G13 is it's mounted longitudinally with a crappy drivetrain.
Even with the bigger G16, fuel economy sucks for those Suzuki-style vans.
The economy drag of front-engine RWD and associated hardware becomes proportionately worse the smaller the engine gets.
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RWD might not be the problem. You know, they're geared quite too low in order to enable them to climb steep hills and rice fields with an overload which predictably kills fuel economy...
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That said, I've driven small diesel Suzuki Carry vans that get 30 km/l. I'm betting they'd get much better, however, if they were FWD.
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Maybe if it had the same driveline of the former Suzuki Celerio Diesel which used the same engine mounted transversely in FWD?