Bladder buster alert! Nissan Qashqai goes 867 miles on a tank of diesel
A team of Nissan test drivers recently set out from Land's End in Southern England in a Nissan Qashqai with the goal of seeing how much ground they could cover without refueling. They began their trek in the compact crossover with 65 L of diesel and at the end of their 867-mile trip to John o'Groat's on the northern tip of Scotland they had consumed a mere 58L. That amounts to 56.1L mpg US from the 1.5L diesel engine. The remaining 7L of diesel would have brought the total range up to 977 miles before having to refill the tank. The Qashqai is similar in size and style to the new Rogue crossover that recently went on sale in the US, but the Rogue only comes with a gas engine that is rated at a comparatively mediocre 21/26 mpg. Hopefully Nissan will add a Tier 2 / Bin 5 compliant small diesel to our model to improve the situation.
[Source: CarScoop]
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why not the LS2/LS7? 4:58PM (10/18/2007)
You're comparing a test run by Nissan engineers to produce best mpg possible to the EPA ratings. Might I remind you there is a guy out there who gets well over 100mpg out of a gasoline Accord? He could do this on only 33L of fuel.
YMMV.
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Brian Hague 12:58AM (10/19/2007)
Let's see... you're *complaining* that a bunch of test drivers from nissan got 56 MPG (US) from an SUV... what do you drive??
I've gotten 50 from my '99.5 Golf TDI, not doing anything other than hitting the cruise button. imagine what these engineers could do if they wrote a manual on driving for economy!
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Mattias 12:41PM (10/19/2007)
My best ever real world mileage was 60mpg (US mpg) done "commuting" between Heilbronn and Karlsruhe with an old Peuegeot 205 1.8l Diesel (60hp). More than 70 is nearly impossible in the real world, even with our nice small European diesels.
56mpg with the Qashgai is great. I think best mileage I would manage with this car might be around 40mpg.
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