Pick Up Manual Or Auto

[ollandroverman]

Did 320 miles of motorways and A roads last night in my Ranger 3.2 auto everything from rush hour stop start round Manchester to a late night high speed run back over the Pennines and managed 32mpg average. It was showing nearly 35 for a while but on the way home late last night on clear roads my lead right foot was enjoying itself which dragged the average down a bit!

Have you checked the in car reading against the fuel pump figures?

 

[sawdust]

Have you checked the in car reading against the fuel pump figures?

Pump litres to miles is the only accurate reading you can have, the trip computer is pretty optimistic...

 

[spanners and hammers]

Depends on gross train weight (GTW).

NP300 is 6t, so no you would not get a full 1t in the back. Think mine is around 2.2 tonnes unladen (maybe a bit less) add 3.5t towing, only leaves 300kg for loading.

So not in a Navara

the musso does

 

[H200GT]

the musso does

Its a shame that everything they make is rather ugly. I have no experience of their products, but being korean I would guess they are well engineered.

 

[spanners and hammers]

I would always want practicalty over looks anyday

 

[H200GT]

I would always want practicalty over looks anyday

The depreciation wouldn’t be practical for me

 

[mo!]

The depreciation wouldn’t be practical for me

Run it into the ground. 7 years warranty so it will be worthless when that runs out but you won't have spent any money on repairs...

 

[Drillman]

Have you checked the in car reading against the fuel pump figures?

No of course not I just wanted bragging rights of my tank using Bugger all fuel

It’s normally welded to a trailer so 22mpg tops is all it’s ever done previously

 

[H200GT]

I got 5 years on the navara, and it will still be worth at least 8k by then one would think.

However my warranty will likely be up un just over 3 years, as I average around 30k miles per annum and its limited to 5 years or 100k miles.

I see SsangYong offer 7 years / 150k, shows good faith in their products, fair play to them. Imo we have the likes of Kia that started this long warranty to thank, others have had to follow suit. Other half has had her eye on a Kia Sportage for a while, look decent second hand buys

 

[Spud]

14 plate dmax here with 128k on a 2.5 motor. Average over 14,000 miles is 29.7mpg m(divided by pump litres) towing 20% of the time. 6sp manual. Great motor, I'd have another, but wife has a 6sp auto Astra diesel and it's in a different league, just brilliant, it's always in what you'd say was the right gear. Next pickup highly likely to be auto. One of my self employed men has an 8sp auto Amorak, which although not my cup of tea, drives beautifully

 

[Western promise]

Manual every time , autos are for girls and old men .

I will let you tell all the truckers personally their auto gearbox trucks are for girls & old men!!!