Company car - advice please

[FonterraFarmer]

Measured from the pump?
Yes if you drive like miss Daisy you will get better mpg, but when you do 40k miles per year as I do you tend to find yourself pressing on a bit.

40,000 miles a year, where the hell are you going every day??

 

[Farma Parma]

Rising above the nitty gritty it's plain to see that the manufacturers have stepped back from the purely battery powered vehicle and are now pushing hybrids, which are conventionally powered cars but with an electrical transmission and a much smaller li-ion battery than will be found in a pure EV. Can't help but feel they have decided EV's are a non runner for the time being for various reasons. No sympathy for them, they should of done their homework before jumping on the EV bandwagon.

Toyota have really cocked it up, they went all out for the EV and even stopped making diesel cars in anticipation, now the company is having to try and make a virtue of the fact that its hybrids are petrol powered rather than the far more efficient diesel engine! No problem though, they have an expensive marketing department to cover up the stupidity of top management.

I dont get it, why aint all hybrids not got a Diesel Engine in with Adblu zero emissions ??? or an i missing something?

 

[Robt]

Strewth. Poor Rob, I actually used to like him you know. Now he has a choice of being a queue jumping richard cranium in an Audi or a bus lane special in a transit that looks to be designed for special children, does it come with cloned plates already and a wheelchair ramp on the back?

Poor guy gonna need a new job by the end of this.

You are a bit of a wally! I would say twit but it will auto correct. I take it you don’t have or indeed need a wheelchair for your children! And you want to be a doctor.... dr pepper is all you are good for

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Advertised as 60+ mpg maybe...
real world figures..much less so

Exactly, nothing in last 8,9 or 10 yrs will now hit 60mpg due to emissioning the engines. My old oil burner Golf will easily do 60 even with over 250k on clock but nothing after it will, not in real life. Even if dash displays it pump meter calculations are always worst!! We’ve got a 1.7 diesel Kia that only does 42!!! Dads got a 3.0ltr Merc ML that can actually see 34-35 on nice steady runs!! To save the planet we’re burning double the fuel......

 

[Highland Mule]

Exactly, nothing in last 8,9 or 10 yrs will now hit 60mpg due to emissioning the engines. My old oil burner Golf will easily do 60 even with over 250k on clock but nothing after it will, not in real life. Even if dash displays it pump meter calculations are always worst!! We’ve got a 1.7 diesel Kia that only does 42!!! Dads got a 3.0ltr Merc ML that can actually see 34-35 on nice steady runs!! To save the planet we’re burning double the fuel......

Not true. 2018 Volvo V40 D4.

Easy to get 50+, whilst thrashing it. 60+ means keeping steady, but not tricky.

Oh, and I have 0-60 in under 7.5 seconds, for when I want to hit 40mpg.

 

[kiwi pom]

40,000 miles a year, where the hell are you going every day??

It does amaze me the distances some people cover each year.
You wonder how much of it is really necessary?

 

[Robt]

I do 45/50,00 miles per annum . I cover the whole of uk yet work from home 1/2 days a week

 

[FonterraFarmer]

It does amaze me the distances some people cover each year.
You wonder how much of it is really necessary?

The only time I do 1000 miles a week or more is when I'm on holiday....??

 

[ollandroverman]

When off farm we are a rag-tag band of electrical and signaling railway engineers, so we go where the work needs doing.
I work with two of my childhood farming friends, and the three of us usually travel together and share the driving.
Compared to running larger commercial vehicles in a previous life as a building developer and contractor, my fuel use is less per week due to sharing running costs.

 

[Robt]

My VW V6 amorak is coming for just this post reasoning! It arrives 1st April and I can’t wait!

 

[Chris F]

Exactly, nothing in last 8,9 or 10 yrs will now hit 60mpg due to emissioning the engines. My old oil burner Golf will easily do 60 even with over 250k on clock but nothing after it will, not in real life. Even if dash displays it pump meter calculations are always worst!! We’ve got a 1.7 diesel Kia that only does 42!!! Dads got a 3.0ltr Merc ML that can actually see 34-35 on nice steady runs!! To save the planet we’re burning double the fuel......

My other half has a Nissan Juke. It has displays averaged 61mpg over the past 8k miles. It’s a 2015 1.5 diesel. Does a lot of steady motorway miles though. Have to say it though it only does 450 miles on a 35 litre fill. Which is slightly less than 60.

 

[MJB]

One annoying thing about dual cab pick ups is the speed limit, 50 on a single track road and 60 on a dual carriage way. Still it will help the mpg at those speeds.

 

[Scribus]

I dont get it, why aint all hybrids not got a Diesel Engine in with Adblu zero emissions ??? or an i missing something?

This goes to the very crux of the idiocy of the motor manufacturers.

Going back a few years there was a tremendous hoo ha about 'disruption' in the the personal transport sector as big tech muscled in on the car business and cars were going to be little more than boxes that we called for on our smartphones and they trundled up autonomously. We don't hear anything more about it nowdays but battery power was one idea they could salvage from the implosion of that little dream and it was to be sold to as being green, well they aint, and not only that motorists just don't want the faffing about with the cables they entailed, indeed, it must have eventually dawned upon the makers that not everyone lived in a nice semi with off road parking while cables hanging from lampposts, as envisaged, were simply not practical or safe. So a further retreat was called for and we now have 'self charging hybrids' which are no more than conventionally powered cars with an electric transmission and a much smaller li-ion battery than pure electric cars. However, so taken were the manufacturers by the brilliance of their dream that they abandoned those nasty smelly diesels which were sooo polluting or so everyone told them, but in fact they are not and even the committee of the great and the good set up the UK government (COMEEP) struggled to damn them altogether, and they have moved on even more since. However, certain manufactures thought they were well ahead by binning all further development of the diesel engine in passenger cars but are now left looking rather silly, Toyota being a leading example.

 

[Scribus]

My other half has a Nissan Juke. It has displays averaged 61mpg over the past 8k miles. It’s a 2015 1.5 diesel. Does a lot of steady motorway miles though. Have to say it though it only does 450 miles on a 35 litre fill. Which is slightly less than 60.

I hired one a couple of years ago and had to rub my eyes when the current MPG started showing beyond 70!

 

[SW1]

One annoying thing about dual cab pick ups is the speed limit, 50 on a single track road and 60 on a dual carriage way. Still it will help the mpg at those speeds.

As far as I can tell, this only applies to the V6 Amarok, V6 Merc and the Raptor?

 

[Scribus]

40,000 miles a year, where the hell are you going every day??

It's only 800 miles a week or 160 per working day, that's nothing for a lot of sales reps and even my son in law is doing not much less than that on a temporary contract at the moment.

 

[ollandroverman]

As far as I can tell, this only applies to the V6 Amarok, V6 Merc and the Raptor?

As the trip point for this law is an unladen weight exceeding 2040kg, most new model pickup trucks fall foul.

 

[ollandroverman]

It's only 800 miles a week or 160 per working day, that's nothing for a lot of sales reps and even my son in law is doing not much less than that on a temporary contract at the moment.

Dont be dismissive ...it's a massive amount of miles to be travelling day after day aft day.

 

[Scribus]

Dont be silly....it's a massive amount of miles to be travelling day after day aft day.

But it happens.

 

[Finn farmer]

14-16 hours behind the wheel on public roads in a day? Reckless stupidity. Please don’t - somebody loves you and those around you, even if you don’t love yourself.

I do get your point, but we have way different roads and much less traffic than you. And believe me, i know my limits. And i also know that there's a bunch of people that love me and i love them.