L/C 100 Series Article

blackmax11,

In my opinion, Fuel Eco really comes into it's own when towing. We used to have an 80 series dual fuel, and updated to a100 LC TD, and towed a 17ft van, the torque of the TD made driving with the van a lot easier, I would never tow a van with a petrol engine again in both fuel efficiency and torqe the TD far outweighs the LC petrol.

Al

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i have a 100 series t/d with roof rack and 12 ft boat on top, towing an 18 ft Bushtracker with a tare of 2.5 tomnne and 3.0 tonne loaded.

We recently did a 7,700km trip with towing about 60-70% of the time. Our all up average was 16.5 litres per 100 km, generally travelling at 80km/Hr. Included in this is some dirt road and 4 wheel driving over fairly rough tracks.

We were pretty happy with the mileage. Our friends travelling with us towing Jayco's with an all up weight of probably around 2 tonne used 21.8litres per 100 for a Ford Explorer (petrol) and 28 litres per 100 for the Nissan Patrol using petrol and 90% LPG.

We get around 10.5-12 km per 100 around town travelling generally in rush hour traffic. overall we are very pleased with teh fuel consumption on the Cruiser.

Mike and Marg

have just gone from V8 Disco to LC100 4.5 6 cyl. !0% all round improvement on economy (petrol) with slight improvement on towing which was excellent in the Disco anyway. Towing with petrol = 24L/100. I have lpg which gives me about 28 L or 12cents/100 towing @ 90/95 kph

Thanks to all who contrubited. The info basically confirms my own thoughts, I will buy the diesel L/C.