Toyota or Nissan - Fuel economy

Cant Help you with Cruiser or Patrol but the Desiel Paj gets around 800km around town and 1000km on a trip (90ltr) :)

The most economical out of the vehicles listed is the T/D Cruiser,also a great motor and all round package but limited to IFS which is OK for 90% of us.
Both petrol motors are real drinkers,with the Nissan 4.8 just edging out the cruiser 4.5 for most fuel used.
We get around 13.5l/100kms in our 105 series,live axle but non turbo(read slow).
P.S Im talking about real motors,not the 3lt in the Patrol.

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Hi Franksy

Of big wagons consumption goes roughly as follows with diesels typically 30 to 45% better fuel economy than petrols but true running costs are much the same.

4800 Patrol 17-18
V8 cruiser 16-17
4500 cruiser 16-17
4200Patrol & Cruiser 12
3lt Patrol 11

Getting adequate real range and capabiliity is more important to us than.

Fuel use can be highly variable.

Just returned here from central Aussie trip in which all cars did a drive from Melbourne to Port Augusta (1100km 14hours).

We left before traffic, sat on 100kmh , and had organized stops whereas ours mates in latest pajero petrol, had long disorganized stops , sat on 115kmh and took 1/2 hour longer and consumed slightly more fuel than the thirsty 4800 which completed that journey using 14.8 lt/100k`and on 1 tank.

Robin Miller

Hi Franksy, no one has answered your first question. You should be getting more! Even if you only have 75 useable litres in your tank, you're using 25L/100km. Maybe you're towing the 'Queen Mary' or it's soft sand all the way to work? Your truck is using about 10L too much per 100km. Something definitely wrong there, especially with the gas option.

Hi Frank, I can tell you I've had the Patrol 3Lt T/D {01} and it was the best vehicle I've had for towing {1250K coromal} its a real gutsy car and very economical at 7.3 K's per Lt towing and around 10K's a Lt not, however it was the parts on them that drove me away 5 GRAND for a fuel pump is'nt funny its insane,also 7 grand for a turbo,and upwrds of 15 for an engine, no I ended up going back to Toyota although their expensive not a patch on Nissan, I got a Prado 3L T/D {02} and get about the same consumption as the Patrol, some say they need to be serviced every 5,000 K's mines been done by Toyota and they stipulate every 10.000K's 154 so far and no probs, turbo diesel is definately the way to go you just have to work out which size engine suits you , for me the 3Lt is both economical and gutsy enough to do the job,
hope this helps,
Dave

N/A 100series cruiser used to get 12.2lt/100km at best.
Current 4.2 turbo Patrol gets 14-15lt/100km at best.

Towing same loads both got about 20lt/100km. Cruiser done it much slower obviously.

Hope this helps. Trevor.