How much petrol do these burn on a medium heavy cruise on the motorway just out of interest? Can you make 35 mpg?

Mine is one year and 2 months old.

33000km.

Average is about 10l/100km -> computer and 11l/100km -> real.

80% long/motorways trips (usually 130-160km/h, sometimes 180-200km/h), 20% city.

Best result: 9.5l/100km (real, computer 8.8l/100km) on long trip from Brussel to Warsaw (more than 1300km, about 14h).

P.

Mine is one year and 2 months old.

33000km.

Average is about 10l/100km -> computer and 11l/100km -> real.

80% long/motorways trips (usually 130-160km/h, sometimes 180-200km/h), 20% city.

Best result: 9.5l/100km (real, computer 8.8l/100km) on long trip from Brussel to Warsaw (more than 1300km, about 14h).

P.

With your music system on board that long journey would be a breeze

Thread resurrection Just got my used 3.6 (2010) estate with paddles, awd, DSG, pan roof etc and just had my first long drive in her. Comfortable, lithe for such a large car and as someone has mentioned above the car simply flies from standstill without fuss. Roundabouts are a breeze. Very impressed so far. Discovered that it has a tow hitch too that was not known by vendor. Happy

Very happy with my V6 such a nice car to drive,fast or slow.

 

Its happy at 140 mph on the German autobahns and happy piddling around in London traffic at 20 mph.

 

To gain  confidence at speed I had a track day at www.rockingham.co.uk  with a race instructor,even the instructor was impressed with the performance,smoothness,quietness and overall a very safe car was his comment.

 

The car does enjoy visiting petrol stations well that is expected !.

I have my eye for one of these stealth cars (used) but seem to rare, but not as rare as the 200bhp petrol!! Wile7 your car looks fantastic and I am soooo jealous.

Thread resurrection Just got my used 3.6 (2010) estate with paddles, awd, DSG, pan roof etc and just had my first long drive in her. Comfortable, lithe for such a large car and as someone has mentioned above the car simply flies from standstill without fuss. Roundabouts are a breeze. Very impressed so far. Discovered that it has a tow hitch too that was not known by vendor. Happy

 

It certainly is a great engine and makes the car a joy to own and drive 

I have my eye for one of these stealth cars (used) but seem to rare, but not as rare as the 200bhp petrol!! Wile7 your car looks fantastic and I am soooo jealous.

Thanks Matty. So far very pleased We have just had our first proper drive loaded up.

Started about half an hour from Geneva (Aubonne) where it was dry, hit Lyon in France with torrential rain, then heavy snow as we headed south....then hit sunshine as we motored on down to Perpignan to visit the outlaws (I'm English, wife is French). Two adults, two kids, loads of kit and the car ran like a dream. Grounded once at a car park where we stopped for feed half way (the car is lowered 40mm) other than that, excellent. Took 7 hours in the end (normally a 5 1/2 hour trip).

I was very light on throttle and used cruise when I could set at 135kmh (a true 128 on the Tom Tom phone app - must be the 17" winter wheel/tyre combo setting things slightly out...should be same as the 19" summer wheels rolling diameter). We managed between 8.8 and 11 litres/100kms which is not bad at all (I'll pop out and check what that is in mpg on the big dot in a minute). I used to run a 3.5 v6 Vel Satis which has the nissan 350z engine in it (also a lovely lump) but that never did better than about 12 or 13 ltr/100 (around 28 to 32 mpg on a run).

Suns out here now so time to pop out and have a blast around the smaller roads and play with the paddles (pan roof open of course)

Dave

Are they fitted with a larger fuel tank ? If not the lack if range must be quite annoying

Having a 3.6 superb myself it is just the standard size fuel tank and yes it does my nut in!

The only thing that makes it better is that it is a joy to drive.

Yes....standard fuel tank I believe - gave me around 575 kms fro brim to almost empty on the autoroute. It's supposed to be a 60ltr according to the hand book. Would be handy to have a larger one but hey ho....cans on the roof anyone?

Sorry - just to add that's about 360 miles (575kms)....so not a lot when I look at it that way