Having read a few posts from the Hypermilers in the club I thought I’d add a story of my own.
I took my family from Melbourne to Echuca last weekend in our I30 CRDi 1.6 with 2,352,277 kms on the clock. I was towing an old army surplus Chieftain tank. The 250 km journey was completed with the air conditioning on and driving in 3rd gear only. Conditions on the day were windy, in fact we were travelling into a 110 km/hr headwind.
I was struggling to maintain 140 km/hr in these conditions so pulled over at Rochester to see what was wrong - only to find that he tyres were deflated to 60 kPa and I’d accidently left the handbrake on all the way.
Having set off with half a tank of Diesel I took the opportunity to syphon fuel out of the now full tank.
When I got to my destination I did the maths which showed that my i30 generates 2.8 litres of Diesel every 100 kms
Does anyone else have a similar story? I'm sure someone can better this