Did I hear correctly?

Doubt it, my Morris Mini 850 1962 model achieved that, but nothing else since.

It was a twin turbo diesel

We got that sort of fuel consumption out of a diesel Peugoet 206 when we were in Europe 3 years ago at speeds up to 180kph on the Autobahns - love those roads. We have photo's of the speedo at that speed, an no, I did not take them, my wife did. Not bad for a 1.4L diesel.

We absolutely flogged the Pug (lease car, not ours) and got an average of 48mpg over 12,000km. When we drove more carefully and stayed under 160kph, we were getting slightly more that 50mpg.

That sort of comsumption out of a Jag - maybe!!!!

Stevesub

You heard correctly Moose , and I am skeptical about that to.

Haven't had the time to find a UK site with specs on that jag but basically I thought he was pushing the facts around a bit.

I also got the impression that they were all reading the instantaneous numbers from a car mileage display which can read those figures on occasions.

The readings looked to be the average mileage for the trip... but when they called them out a bit down the road the average was hugely different so I would say that the figures were an average of the latest driving conditions which may update every few minutes or so....

My little Suzuki gives real time readings but it is useless as it will go from saying lets say 10k/L up to 50k/l just be cresting a hill etc.

Mind you they did only fill the car the once and it was "supposed" to run out of fuel after 620 miles but did the full 750 mile trip on one tank of fuel. That is 1200 km on a single tank in a 6 cylinder twin turbo jag.. surely you can't complain.. especially as he was driving hard to start with thinking that there was no way he would even finish so he was just trying to burn the fuel so he could pull up stumps earlier.

quote from auto website



As expected, the S-TYPE Diesel posts frugal fuel consumption of 6.1L/100km highway and 10.9L/100km urban. Jaguar Australia claims an ADR 00/81 fuel consumption figure of 7.8L/100km. This relates to a very low greenhouse CO2 output of 208g/km.


this is for the twin turbo diesel

G'day there Moose

I still don't know why they didn't choose a Diesel DID Pajero, with the big tanks, it would have done the trip easy

Donks1

Hammond in the diesel POlo 'E' was getting 75mpg plus on the same run.

REMEMBER - Top Gear - it's all about E N T E R T A I N M E N T.

(Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.)

Had a VW Golf 2.0l Diesel up until recently, it would get about 6.2-6.4 sitting on 140km/h, the Jag is the most up to date technology so not out of the question, but they did go for a long long time on empty apparently.

Dave