| |||||||
| Register | BHP Garage | Classifieds | Team-BHP FAQ | Members List | Calendar | Search | Today's Posts | Mark Forums Read |
| The Indian Car Scene!! Palios, Vtecs, Mahindras, Octavia RS' and everything on the Indian Car Scene. |
![]() |
| | Thread Tools |
| | #46 (permalink) |
| BHPian | It is simply a pointer to what can be achieved if you are careful. In November 2005, I decided to see how fuel efficient my car can be. I drove extremely carefully, was very gentle with the accelerator, very sparing on the clutch and brakes, upshifted the Maruti way (2-3-4-5 at 10-20-30-40) and never exceeded 40 kph. With A/C on, I got a mileage of 16.47 kpl in the city with A/C on (between 2 tankfuls, 373 km took 22.65 litres). I have never driven that way again but it gave me a pointer to what is possible. But without providing the conditions or my driving style, if I claim an Indica V2 LSi gives 16 kpl in the city with A/C, I may not believe myself!
__________________ 2003 March Tata Indica V2 LSi 89K km 1997 February Bajaj KB125 RTZ 48K km Last edited by hrag : 30th April 2008 at 12:20. |
| | |
| | #47 (permalink) |
| BHPian Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Chennai
Posts: 380
| I agree. My mom gets 17 kmpl in the city with normal driving in her M800. Have heard that it can give even 20 kmpl in the city.
__________________ Proxima 2004 Safari LX 2008 Pulsar 180 Last edited by Proxima : 30th April 2008 at 12:26. |
| | |
| | #50 (permalink) |
| BHPian Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Mumbai,DXB
Posts: 392
| Wow thats a wonderful news no matter how rubbish. I always knew it was coming soon after I read Fiesta's mileage record at 33 plus kmpl. I have till date got best of 17 and worst of 12 kmpl ( tank full to tank full) in commute. 12 kmpl I got in Mumbai - Pune run where I averaged at 100kmph( managed 106 kms in 1hr 5 mins) and was peaking at 195kmph (speedo reading) and have no regrets as it was a fun drive and as many as 3 times. KMPL not withstanding, Verna VGT is fun car and I like it. |
| | |
| | #53 (permalink) |
| BHPian Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New Delhi
Posts: 279
| come on guys!! it was just a marketing stretegy. Hyundai is using the same stretegy used by Mahindra for Mahindra Logan and Ford for Ford Fiesta. Logan Returning 35 kmpl and Ford Fiesta around 33 kmpl registering themselves in limca book of records. Nobody will run their cars under conditions in which these cars ran i.e verna, fiesta and logan. lol Hyundai is learning a bit how to exploit indian market with such stunts. I remember few of my friends were in the favour of logan being widest and have the biggest boot space with superb mileage of 35 kmpl. That's really stupid of buying logan because company claimed 35 kmpl. I told them that they were under specific conditions. They said company is not a fool and spent millions of $ for their research. 2 of them bought it and they are not getting more than 17-18 kmpl haha and then i always use to tease them how is your 35 kmpl car going? haha It can be possible, we don't know under what conditions. may be downslope. I remember jaipur highway there are uphill and downhills. Few of you are saying its downhill. Man if one way is a downhill then returning way will be a uphill. Car was not accelerating and it was moving constantly. at such low speeds 110 hp wont do anything man. Just think of the power used at 30 kmph will be minor. Same with Logan almost same torque can be used to move that car and same with fiesta. They just used the torque band properly. Me myself use my car's torque band properly, that's how i'm achieving good mileage in the cities. Honda City is generating good torque thats why their mileage is good being 1.5 L engine. Just the game of Torque band guys. Correct me if i'm wrong.
__________________ Hyundai Elantra CRDi Hyundai Accent 1.6L GLS Maruti Suzuki Wagon R Maruti 800 What's Next?... Yamaha R15 :-) Last edited by Gangsta : 1st May 2008 at 08:41. |
| | |
| | #54 (permalink) | |
| BHPian Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New Delhi
Posts: 279
| Quote:
![]()
__________________ Hyundai Elantra CRDi Hyundai Accent 1.6L GLS Maruti Suzuki Wagon R Maruti 800 What's Next?... Yamaha R15 :-) | |
| | |
| | #55 (permalink) |
| BHPian | Why is Hundai having to stoop so low to play such cheap gimmicks? Verna is doing fine. Or is it feeling the heat from lower segment cars like Dzire? Verna is a preformance diesel and performance cars are not known for their mileage. Hyundai might have pulled it off under some test conditions which will be impossible to replicate under normal driving conditions. They know it pretty well too, so why play these cheap tricks? If less performance diesels like Indigo, Logan and Dzire are put through same test conditions as Hyundia put their Verna through, they would return at least 75 kmpl. But such Utopian driving conditions do not exist. What next? Hyundai would probably claim next that their Verna achieved 800 kph speed record. If they can jack up 10 kpl average to 42 kpl ( 4 times up ) then they might as well take 200 kph top speed up to 800 kph. Auto magazines will have a field day over this, filling pages after pages with this trash. To think of some one who might fall for this trick! But then again, there is no dearth of suckers in this world. |
| | |
| | #58 (permalink) |
| Senior - BHPian | My friends Verna has given him 18 - 20 kpl constantly with mixed driving of city & highways. Its been like this for the last 8 months now. So if they can do double in Controlled Conditions - then why not !! As someone said they had to better Ford & Logan after all. Now when do we see a Swift Diesel doing 50 kpl ![]()
__________________ Alcohol is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Verna CRDi !! June '08 Accent GLE - April '05 |
| | |
| | #59 (permalink) | |
| BHPian Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Bangalore
Posts: 78
| Quote:
![]() These are all marketing gimmics, Hyundai had to come out with some mileage topping report after Ford came twice for Fiesta. Companies not only in the automobiles, but in other fields also do this. I know of many medicines which are launched after some time again & again with new names & a slight change of ingridients just to compete the better doing ones. | |
| | |
![]() |
« Rediff reports Cabinet mulling Rs.5/lt hike
|
Skoda launches Superb’s new variant; cuts prices by Rs 2 lakh »
| Thread Tools | |
Similar Threads | ||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Hyundai Verna CRDi At 5000km | bhpindian | Long-Term Ownership Reviews | 75 | 26th December 2007 18:33 |
| Hyundai Verna Review! | superamerica | Test-Drives & Initial Ownership Reports | 640 | 20th November 2007 21:49 |
| Weird handling of Hyundai Verna | speedmiester | Technical Stuff | 11 | 28th September 2007 19:46 |
All times are GMT +5.5. The time now is 02:51.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430










