Real world fuel efficiency of the Kia Carens 1.4 turbo petrol MT

Considering the figures in Bangalore traffic in rains, I am convinced that the fuel efficiency will not go below 9 kmpl.

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5 month update:

I had a chance to check full tank FE with only city drive as the last 2 months the rain gods have stopped me to have any long trips.

• Car model: 1.4 T Prestige Plus Manual
• Total distance covered: 432 kms
• Total fuel consumed: 39.9 ltr
• Avg FE calculated: 10.82 kmpl
• Avg FE as per MID: 11.8 kmpl

Total drive time : 23 hours. It took me 2 months to fill the tank and the trips were very short. This is with AC 50% of the time but mostly with full load of even 9 people couple of occasions.

Considering the figures in Bangalore traffic in rains, I am convinced that the fuel efficiency will not go below 9 kmpl.

And then I did a long drive to Chennai during the long weekend.

Upward journey:

• Distance covered: 353 km
• Avg speed: This time I kept the speeds around 100+ most of the journey just to check the effect of higher speeds on FE.
• Load on vehicle: 5 adults and 1 kid with 100kgs of luggage and 100% AC.
• Avg FE : 17.3 kmpl

Return journey:

• Similar parameters for distance, weight and speed.
• Avg FE : 16 kmpl

I always find the return journey to have 1.5 kmpl less FE mostly because of altitude difference.

So yes there is negative impact on FE if we go above 90 kmph. Last time the same yielded a FE of 18.5 kmpl when I kept the speeds around 90kmph.

In all these, I did find that the FE has taken a hit of around 1 kmpl. I hope it will improve after oil change.

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