Sydney to QLD on one tank.

[Fekason]

Drove the VY S2 Manual V6 to QLD for a couple of days over Christmas. Car was loaded with five and a boot full.

Drove up on Christmas Eve (Saturday). Filled up on Pennant Hills Road, averaged just under 90 KPH and reached Tugan without adding any fuel. Took 64.5 litres for the 830 Km.

That is on a par with my VS S2 Manual V6 that is much lighter. The VY had 5,000 Km at the start, so is probably not fully run in yet.

Happy with the consumption.

 

[deserthead]

We did the same trip last year. But mines a VX II 5 speed 6.
I reckon we would've got 1000ks outta the tank had we pushed it all the way!
Way better than the VS I used to have. Only got 700 outta a tank long dist.
So Im pretty happy too!!! :thumbsup:

 

[camvyss]

On the highway my VY2 SS gets 9.8L/100Km which in my books is pretty damn good for an 8.

 

[darktele]

yeah my vy did the same 1 tank, 5 speed manual i got it to around 8.9L/100k
sat on 100kms most the way with cruise control on part from dam 60 town zones =[

 

[azzss]

Went for a drive in my vy2 calais today (400kms) sat around the 8.4 to 9L/100kms on a day of 42 degrees! pretty happy with that.

 

[alex88]

i averaged 10l/100km for a 423km trip using 45 litres, but there was a few flat out overtaking going on and my car revs at 2500 at 105kmph in 5th

 

[BottFodder]

This is the thing about Big slow revving motors. (Even F.O.R.D.S get this effect!)

My S1 VS did 8.6 Sydney/Canberra (with 270K's) on the clock. Best thing I ever did to my VS was put a cruise into it.

My new VY seems about the same.

I usually screw the cruise onto about 115Km/h - Seems to give about 2050 RPM indicated. Including driving around Canberra for 4 nights - 9.1! on the cruise sections I was down to 8.5.

 

[HSVKEV260R8]

Drove the VY S2 Manual V6 to QLD for a couple of days over Christmas. Car was loaded with five and a boot full.

Drove up on Christmas Eve (Saturday). Filled up on Pennant Hills Road, averaged just under 90 KPH and reached Tugan without adding any fuel. Took 64.5 litres for the 830 Km.

That is on a par with my VS S2 Manual V6 that is much lighter. The VY had 5,000 Km at the start, so is probably not fully run in yet.

Happy with the consumption.

This is the norm it seems dude!! I did a Melb to Adelaide in 2001 in my old VT Exec (total 730kms) on only 58 litres! and that was averaging 100km/h. Also, did you use cruise control alot?

 

[HSVKEV260R8]

On the highway my VY2 SS gets 9.8L/100Km which in my books is pretty damn good for an 8.

I regularly get 9.4l/100kms out of my Clubby. She loves loping along at 100km/h at 1600 rpm in sixth all day!! Last year drove from Melb to Parkes and still had about 6 ltrs left! That too was through temps ranging from 14deg to 40+deg. This trip was done on Shell Optimax though, a fuel I usually hate, this year I am going to try it on either United 98Boost E10 or Shell Optimax Extreme E5 100RON, I am hoping for better results after seeing some research figures!! Keep you all posted!!

 

[Fekason]

Use Cruise Control a Lot!

This is the norm it seems dude!! I did a Melb to Adelaide in 2001 in my old VT Exec (total 730kms) on only 58 litres! and that was averaging 100km/h. Also, did you use cruise control alot?

I use cruise control and speed alert where ever I can on the highway. Allows me to watch the road/traffic without distraction.

I had driven my VS from Windsor to QLD (Warwick) up the New England Highway before on one tank, but it could not make it up the Pacific due to fuel quantity of 16 litres less and the impact of additional traffic.