Query on petrol consumption 1.2L engine

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I am budgeting for the year and not the car driver in the household.

Looking up figures on net re litres/100km for petrol engines.

Would 5 litres per 100 kilometres be a reasonable ballpark petrol consumption figure to use in calculations for a 2 year old 1.2L car?
 
You might be a little on the optimistic side there!

Forgive me but I still think in miles/gal.
Your 100km per 5 litres would correspond to 62.14 miles to 1.1 gal or 57 miles to 1 gal.
The best I have got from an economical 1.4 litre toyota petrol was 46mpg.
Converting that gives approx 81.35 km per 5 litres.

You might get 100km/5L from a good diesel.
 
If you look at a manufacturer's advertisement for your specific type of car, it should give the average fuel consumption somewhere in the blurb.
 
My wife has the 1.2 Fabia and around town it gets probably under 30 mpg.Think thats about 9.4 l per 100 km!
 
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Suprised to hear about the 30mpg. I have a 2008 skoda fabia, i'd eaily get around 50mpg out of it. The worst would be 40mpg and that's if i'm doing a lot of motorway driving, i find driving it at 120k causes the worst fuel consumption.
 
5l / 100km should be achievable with a 1.2l engine, but it certainly requires very relaxed driving. I would think that around 6l/100 would be more realistic.
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yep, getting around 810k per tank at least, i don't brim it though so would probably be more.
I have the skoda estate version, it's a 1.2l too if that makes any difference
 
5l/100km equates to 56.4mpg
You just divide 282 by the amount of litres quoted per 100km to get the mpg
I would think with todays modern small petrol engines that figure is quite achievable
 
nearly 3 months gone now with the 2010 Seat 1.2L petrol. Its consuming about 40 litres per 500km about €63 just city driving.
 
I have a 1.2 focus and only get 320 miles out of a 55l tank city driving, but if I do long trips on motorways I can get 450. Shows how expensive sitting in traffic really is!
 
STEINER said:
I am budgeting for the year and not the car driver in the household.

Looking up figures on net re litres/100km for petrol engines.

Would 5 litres per 100 kilometres be a reasonable ballpark petrol consumption figure to use in calculations for a 2 year old 1.2L car?
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I recorded mileage and fuel purchases for a 2010 1.2L Seat Cordoba from 2nd Dec 2011 to 1st Dec 2012.

13,668 km travelled mostly Dublin city/suburbs. Female driver.

€1,856 worth of petrol purchased. 1,156 litres purchased. cheapest €1.456 /L Applegreen Kimmage 31/12/2011. dearest €1.709/L Esso Long mile Road 17/09/2012

Works out at 12.2 km/L or 34.6 miles/gallon discounting whatever left in tank

another poster put up a handy converter on another thread

http://www.thecalculatorsite.com/conversions/fuelconsumption.php#.ULyEel3a7
 
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