seremify007
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Agreed it's the driving style which matters the most. Tuning can be done to make a car fuel efficient or it can be done to be very wasteful. Depends on the intentions.
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Riet
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True, but wind resistance isnt as important at low speed and most people are talking about city driving. Point is that if his skyline is getting 20L/100 km while driving normally it hasnt been tuned well.
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chuboy
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Agreed 20L/100 is a bit high but also remember that if he has gone to the trouble of tuning his car it's likely that he likes to drive it like a tuner car, i.e. hard acceleration etc. Frequent acceleration like that, especially in the city where the traffic is very much start-stop, could quite easily see you pulling14-17L/100, particularly with a high-capacity engine.
Riet
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No shit, but why would you say what it does when you drive stupidly? A stock skyline will get 20L/100km if you floor it all the time too.
chuboy
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Maybe he doesn't think his driving is stupid? If he was asked what kind of consumption he gets in his car he's hardly going to give you an adjusted figure, he'd just tell you what his consumption was.
Kinda pointless saying 'I'd get 13L/100 if I drove slowly', so what? I could say 'I get 0L/100 if I dont drive at all', which is true but doesn't answer the question.
Riet
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Driving normally is kinda implied.
seremify007
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Most cars will do 20L/100km if you floor it the entire way I'd imagine...
... but I agree with Riet. We're talking average consumption typically and that involves some connotation of normal regular driving on streets (as opposed to on a track or drag strip... or Parramatta Rd).
... but I agree with Riet. We're talking average consumption typically and that involves some connotation of normal regular driving on streets (as opposed to on a track or drag strip... or Parramatta Rd).
chuboy
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Can I suggest the possibility that 'normal driving' for the Skyline owner might still be considered to be inefficient?
I'm not defending anyone here, all I'm saying is 20L/100 from a tuned Skyline doesn't sound extraordinary.
seremify007
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My family has an R34 GTR V-spec and it can drop down to 12-15L/100km with normal driving.
Riet
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*facepalm*. You're missing the point. Since the aerodynamics aren't changing if it's using that much fuel in normal driving it has been tuned badly.
seremify007
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I've heard the MRT tunes for Subes and Mitsus yield both improved HP and fuel consumption figures!
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my car runs primarily off hopes and dreams and some petrol
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iits like a 70:30 split
Riet
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Pretty sure good fuel maps account for load and throttle position, which means you should in theory have better fuel economy. Never read too much about ecus and all that though tbh
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i dont know a single 4wd that gets 20L/100km lol mine gets like 10L/100km and our cruiser gets liek 13
seremify007
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Depends on a lot of other conditions... but I presume you mean on average. For me to get 20L/100km it has to be city traffic driving. If you meant over one offs or whatever, 20L/100km is easy even on a slight uphill incline from standstill to 40km/h!
