[Doggie 1]

I got well over 60 litres (up to 63 litres) in my previous FD i30 which officially had a 53 litre fuel tank capacity.
In my GD (with a 50 litre fuel tank capacity) I can get 53+ litres into it.

[The Gonz]

db008 has a slight problem with numbers.

[Phil №❶]

It appears you do too Gonz. 

[Doggie 1]

Yes, it does, doesn't it.   

[The Gonz]

  It was intentional, db0008.

[The Gonz]

Once in a while you're reminded that economy has SO much to do with driving style.

Today with the spare fitted without any balancing done, I was very 'sparing' with the accelerator (and brake) and drove rather gingerly all day.

My economy figure now reads 4.0.

[Doggie 1]

Miles per gallon? 

[Shambles]

Miles per gallon? 

Cops per kilometre

[The Gonz]

 

[Just Rick]

I can beat all your economy figures,I'm driving something now that is on getting 1.9 K/per litre,that's a mere 52.6 L/100 k  ,thankfully I aint paying for it 

[Lakes]

Once in a while you're reminded that economy has SO much to do with driving style.

Today with the spare fitted without any balancing done, I was very 'sparing' with the accelerator (and brake) and drove rather gingerly all day.

My economy figure now reads 4.0.

Gonz i know what you mean by the term ( gingerly ) but how did that term come about? like someone like ginger megs i'm sure would not drive that way .
i was thinking, driving like i had an egg under the throttle
Great economy!

[Shambles]

...driving like i had an egg under the throttle

is that something you guys do, down under?

[Doggie 1]

...driving like i had an egg under the throttle

is that something you guys do, down under?

Only if we can afford to shell out for a new egg.

[Phil №❶]

Ha,ha,ha, very funny, what a yolk. 

[Doggie 1]

Don't poach my jokes. 

[Phil №❶]

I know what you're like when you're angry, I'd better scramble to safety. 

[Doggie 1]

Don't forget your eggs, Benedict.

[The Gonz]

'Gingerly' is thought to come from a Latin root meaning “well-born”. It has nothing to do with the other sort of root, the tropical spice called ginger (whose name comes, much distorted, from a Dravidian language of the Indian subcontinent).

The Latin word was genitus, which is closely connected to other words associated with birth and reproduction, such as genital, congenital and progenitor. Strictly, genitus meant merely “born” or “begotten” (it’s the past participle of the verb gignere, to beget) but seems to have implied a person who was born into a noble or wealthy family. After about 1000 years or so, this turns into the Old French gensor, meaning delicate or dainty (from gent, noble) and 500 years later still is first recorded in English in much its modern form.

In its early days in English it was associated specifically with dancing or walking. If you did these things gingerly you took small elegant steps. In 1583 a writer referred to such dancers “tripping like goats, that an egg would not break under their feet”. As you might gather from this, the word was then rather negative in tone, suggesting a mincing or effeminate way of moving.

Our modern sense, of moving carefully so as not to injure oneself, cause damage or make a noise, first appears about 1600. I don’t know the Australian sense, but it does neatly express that idea of requiring cautious movement on a morning after the night before.

[Just Rick]

Thanks Gonz,now I have a freakin headache,from information overload 

[The Gonz]

 

[AlanHo]

I read through that diatribe quite gingerly

[Tourer_Guy]

Just read through this thread, and have to say I'm really impressed by some of the numbers people are getting.  Can't wait to try for myself when the new i30 gets here!

[mjt57]

Just read through this thread, and have to say I'm really impressed by some of the numbers people are getting. 

Yeah, I'm "impressed" too...

[Eureka]

A few days ago the fuel warning light came on at 1302 klms.  That was on almost a completely full tank of fuel.  Those klms included probably 600 to 700 klms of highway driving, well under the speed limit.  When I fill it up again soon I might do any/all highway driving a bit closer to the speed limit or on the limit and see how much that effects economy.

[AlanHo]

The most I have ever managed to get out of a tank from my three 1.6 CRDi i30's have been :-

2010 FD Hatch    621 miles (998 km)
2012 GD Hatch   744 miles (1197 km)
2013 GD Tourer  705 mils (1134 km)

I don't believe it possible for us in the UK to ever match the Aussie economy figures - we have much lower average temperatures, DPF regeneration, and congested motorways all against us.

[i30sean]

Alan I've managed 660mls with 42mls on computer in my 2010 CRDi  but only 552 with 51mls on computer in my 2011 CRDi this is with brimming the tank and frugal driving.
I30sean

[AlanHo]