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Old 06-20-2016, 11:07 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Hello from Catalonia!

Hello everyone,

I ended up signing up on this forum after coming it across a few times.

My car is a 1.4 petrol-engined VW Polo. Sooner or later I'll have to get a new one but so far I'm doing some research on which one can be the next candidate.

I know for sure I don't want to buy a diesel car but electric cars are too expensive for me and I can't make as many kilometres as I need to a day so as to try to buy a cheap or small one.

My current fuel logs are quite good car wise. In the motorway, never faster than 120km/h, I'm getting 5.2 or 5.5 l/100km. So around 54 to 50 UK mpg / 45 to 42 US mpg.

I always fill up the fuel tank, around 40 litres, and I'm doing around 675 to 700km.

Hope to learn a lot and help if possible.

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Old 06-20-2016, 11:43 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 06-23-2016, 02:03 PM   #3 (permalink)
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What year is your Polo? Have you done any modifications to improve economy? (Are there rules about vehicle modifications in Spain? Some countries are extremely strict, others not so much.)
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