No – or almost no car spends what it promises on its advertising. That is the main conclusion of a study by Autopista.es on the real consumption of automobiles. It is true that the data echoed by car manufacturers is always based on specific tests under certain conditions that favor the fact that any brand can display a fairly low fuel consumption. However, the aforementioned report offers data obtained in common situations for an average driver, something that is more in line with reality.
According to the aforementioned study, the average gap between real average consumption measured by Autopista.es and average consumption approved by car manufacturers is 25.3 percent. So if your car says that it consumes 4 liters per 100 km, surely it is someone else and you who drive every day, you know it well.
The best
However, not all of them are ‘bad’, there are a couple of cars, eminently sports cars, that can boast of homologate a consumption that in real driving circumstances can be lowered by any driver, as the Technical Center of Autopista.es has done in your consumer tests. The Toyota GT86 is the car that best reconciles its homologated consumption with the real one , with a final result 10.5 percent better in real use than in homologation tests.
Just behind is the Mazda MX-5 roadster, which announces 6 liters of approved average consumption while in Autopista.es measurements it certifies 5.6 l / 100 km (-7 percent). This particular podium is completed by the Hyundai i30 1.6 TGDi with a lag of 4.8 percent if we cross the 7.3 liters of consumption announced by the brand compared to the 7 l / 100 km obtained by Autopista.es.
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