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Okay this is possibly dull, but I'm started to get interested in it!...
My other half drives the Mk3 Golf to and from work each day and it uses up crazy ammounts of fuel as it has to do both motorway and in town travelling. I've been using the Seicento and getting ludicrous amounds of mpg out of it,... I've got rather used to this!...
Now at some point cars will all get swapped around again and sold and moved on... SO... What motorway cruiser would be good for town driving and offer top notch mpg... what can be done to improve the mpg?
I'm thinking maybe Civic 1.4 ? Or something equally exciting?
What do you guys reckon?
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205 diesel chugga! Those cars are the nuts.
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What motorway cruiser would be good for town driving and offer top notch mpg... what can be done to improve the mpg? You may have to look for an oil-burner  The fleet was added to a few months back. Mrs Alpineandy stopped using the R5 Diesel and started using the 'dirt cheap' ebay R21 GTX as her workhorse. The fuel bill trebled...  Now she won't give up the comfort/sun roof/PAS etc...)  |
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Golf Mk2 (if you must) + TD(red)i.....?
For myself, the grand plan is Kadett Wagon + GM / Isuzu 1700TD. OK, so still not a massive road-buner, but more than adequate for town / motorways / towing smallish things / uprooting medium sized trees etc.
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yeah its gotta be diswol all the way, the direct injection cars sip fuel like the old guy at the bar with the warm beer.
Question for me is, why does my dads diesel burner have a dump valve stock from the factory? (BMW 530d new one)
J
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lpg'er mate gets 300 miles to £10 of the stuff, his 1.4 8v 307
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Anything with a Golf TDi Motor in it.... Mk1 or 2, scirroco would be cool, Pissrat if you use one from an Audi..... Do A search on TDI RS and you will turn up a serious MK2 Golf  ;D Huge power and torque with stupid frugal fuel economy ;D I want to do Mrs Doms Golf3 convertible with a TDI lump and 6 speed..... Now if only I could fit the Haldex 4wd system as well I could sell the winter syncro and cut down the fleet by one ;D |
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can you run diesel engines on LPG?
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My ex had a Peugeot 106 1.1 XN....stay with me on this one.....and asides from being a hoot to drive, cheap to insure, it returned some serious mpg - I made £10 worth of petrol last from Bath back to Oxford. I could quite easily drive with the reserve light for 60 miles.
The bodywork is a bit flimsy but they're reasonable tough little things.
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can you run diesel engines on LPG? No, but any petrol motor can be converted. A word of warning though: the only reason LPG is so cheap is because the government have not taxed it yet. You actually get less mpg out of an LPG motor than you would running petrol - the ones I've seen anyway. Once Tony whacks on the tax you'll be out of pocket. Diesel's the way to go. |
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yeah its gotta be diswol all the way, the direct injection cars sip fuel like the old guy at the bar with the warm beer. Question for me is, why does my dads diesel burner have a dump valve stock from the factory? (BMW 530d new one) J Haven't they got a super-trick twin-stage turbo on? I think they have. Probably something to do with the 'handover' between the small and the large blowa!  The other advantage of these 'old-tech' diesels is that you can run them on any old sh1te - paraffin, Kero, chip fat, cherryade, cat curse word, coal dust (almost), in fact owt you've got lying around! |
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Last Edit: Aug 8, 2005 16:44:06 GMT by Mr_Bo11ox
1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT! |
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Jarvis
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diesel if definately the way to go for economy
i am now running the Pug 205 TD and what a difference
with it being a small motor it aint toooo slow either
but one warning to all considering this option
****please remove soul before buying***
that way it hurts less when you see something smart
going past!!!!
just a word of warning from somebody that knows
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Question for me is, why does my dads diesel burner have a dump valve stock from the factory? (BMW 530d new one) J Haven't they got a super-trick twin-stage turbo on? I think they have. Probably something to do with the 'handover' between the small and the large blowa! The other advantage of these 'old-tech' diesels is that you can run them on any old sh1te - paraffin, Kero, chip fat, cherryade, cat curse word, coal dust (almost), in fact owt you've got lying around! They have indeed, its a twin sequential VGT turbo set up made by Garrett, almost 2 turbos sharing one hotside casting with a valve to switch between Hi and Low pressure turbos. Very neat installation, but you have a lot of space down the side of an I6 You should try doing the same on a V6 TDI .... I don't list it amongst the "10 design jobs I really want to do" but it pays the bills ;D |
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you want 106 205 or ax diesel
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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Nah - the 530D has a single Turbo, the 535D has the twin, sequential turbos  MKIII Gold TDi running on biodiesel gets my vote. Styled like Emiel's finest *n |
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Top grammar tips!
Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated
Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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Nick
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economy tuning is interesting i want a car that can sip the fuel, as opposed to my 325 which just drinks. used over a quarter of a tank in no time last night:S
so anything little petrol or diesel is cool by me
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idea stolen from rattely eddie.
this weeks car count "5"
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Haven't they got a super-trick twin-stage turbo on? I think they have. Probably something to do with the 'handover' between the small and the large blowa! The other advantage of these 'old-tech' diesels is that you can run them on any old sh1te - paraffin, Kero, chip fat, cherryade, cat curse word, coal dust (almost), in fact owt you've got lying around! They have indeed, its a twin sequential VGT turbo set up made by Garrett, almost 2 turbos sharing one hotside casting with a valve to switch between Hi and Low pressure turbos. Very neat installation, but you have a lot of space down the side of an I6 You should try doing the same on a V6 TDI .... I don't list it amongst the "10 design jobs I really want to do" but it pays the bills ;D WHat car has a twin-stage on a V6 then? PSA/Ford Lion engine perhaps? |
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1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT! |
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You can actually get LPG conversions on diesel`s. But diesel is used at the same time as the LPG and it helps burn all the diesel and gives a lot more power. I have looked at a couple of discoverys with that conversion. There are only a handful of places in th UK that do the conversion.
Strange as it sounds but there is a bloke in Scotland using a Land rover discovery for tarmac and forest stage rallys. With a diesel and LPG conversion putting out 280BHP apparently ;D
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You can actually get LPG conversions on diesel`s. But diesel is used at the same time as the LPG and it helps burn all the diesel and gives a lot more power. Wow, never knew that! I just don't trust the government to hold off on the tax. Or, if there are too few LPG cars going round, I don't trust the fuel companies to announce it's "Uneconomical" to offer LPG any more, just like they did with LRP 4-Star  |
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Now she won't give up the comfort/sun roof/PAS etc...) 
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