Achieved 2.85L/100km this week

Published by Matt Polaine | Filed under Smart

After enjoying the buzz of driving a four wheeled motorbike with the handling of a moped, I settled down to trying out my hypermiling techniques to see what is possible.

After 314 miles I filled up with 14.4 litres of ULSD. This works out to be 2.85L/100km or 99 miles to the imperial gallon, well inside the ‘3 litre’ club criteria. It costs about £24.20 to fill the Smart car full from an empty tank, but a whopping £77 to fill our Mercedes 300TD. That gets us 492 miles at best, not bad for a seven seater - when we use all seven seats, and that’s the whole point. How often do we us more than two seats?

GM, Ford, Chrysler - you really really got it wrong, and you will see the US car market collapse from decades of selling inappropriate vehicles. Next time, don’t kill the electric car.

VW, please produce this car.