Clio 172/182s - Petrol Consumption?

timbob · 23 Mar 2006 at 22:49

Just a quick query, in idle thinking about a possible future automotive direction, as I know there's a couple on the boards who own/owned these cars:

What sort of fuel economy do these return in day to day driving?

timbob · 23 Mar 2006 at 23:09

What's the capacity of the tank? Just so I can put it into context against my Cav, which has a 62 litre tank, and gets me about 430ish miles.

timbob · 25 Mar 2006 at 17:00

Thanks for all the replies. Definately one for the future shopping list when the cav becomes uneconomical to run in a year or two's time

timbob · 25 Mar 2006 at 17:42

Brum Man said:
But who cares TBH, it a hot hatch! YOU DON'T BUY ONE FOR THE FUEL CONSUMPTION!

Indeed not - but I do somewhere in the region of 25,000 miles a year (with no fuel card) for my job, and it would be my only car. So although I'd want a performance and handling step up over my cavalier, fuel consumption is an issue.

Especially when petrol is at it's current price, and the difference between 25mpg average (306 GTi6 consumption - what I thought the Clio might be like) and 35mpg average (which the clio, luckily for me seems to be) would be somewhere in the region of £1000-1500 expenditure per year.

timbob · 25 Mar 2006 at 19:30

That mileage isn't actually very many motorway miles. Perhaps 10-15% is on dual carriageways. Most of it is A/B roads, and I spend probably an average of 3 or 4 hours driving every week day.