feul cosumption

met a SA couple on Nullabor, they were towing a 2.5 ton Roadstar with a early model Pajero 3.2 d intercooled, averaged 16k p l. always sat on 100 kph, try the Nissan Patrol Forum for the info you require, cheers Barry

As you obviously know two totally different vehicles. The 3,2 mitsi is a ripper of a motor. Great tow wagon, will pull all day and great on fuel. Personally reckon the patrol would be up around the 25L per 100 pulling ?? And the pajero 15L per 100 wouls be an estimate based on what I have read on here. Im sure Robin Miller will be here sooner or later and fill you in with exact figures as he has two patrol both 4.8L one auto one manual ( I think for memory) either will tow 1500 with out an issue personally think the pajero will do it a whole heap cheaper in regards to fuel usage. my neighbour has the exceed 3.2 and absolutely loves the diesel in it (he had petrol pajero before) around town he gets on average just over 10L per 100 and this is true stop start running around our local area, shopping, kids to soccer, wife to work at local school, daughter dancing, to her mothers, etc all local stuff. On freeway he gets around 9 or less and this is with 5 in car, climate air running all the time, and outpulls our other neighbours prado (150 D4D) up mooney mooney, hawsbury when we have been to stockton. He also loads it up with an 8x5 fully caged trailer with quad bikes, off road dirt bikes then all the camping gear, podd on roof and back of pajero chockers with all 5 on board and he reckons it pulls like a steam train up any hill and still gets 11to 12L per 100 and he doesnt baby it BUT when it comes to off road while the pajero gets through using its traction control it bottoms out on every thing with IFS and IRS been its let down and he will admit to ths after having cruisers,patrols hilux's etc. Depends on how extreme you want to go off road. are you refering to rock hopping ?? if s go the patrol. If your talking B grade tracks then the patrol again. iF you want some thing for towing, car ike to drive, but will get you to most outback places and using it off road but not rock hopping then you cant go past the pajero and this is come inf from some one who is on there 3rd prado, due to having a full chassis under the prado and live axle back end I wanted for off road use. if it wasnt for the more then moderate off roading I would not have hesitated at buying an exceed pajero....Wait for Robin he will fill you in also there is another member on here that sold his turbo diesel and got the 4.8 as well and is extremely happy with it and it tows a big van so he will also give you fair dinkum fuel useage (sorry cant remember their user name)........................

I like my Patrol but it is thirsty! So mine's an auto 4.8 and the worst performance has been towing a heavy camper over Fraser where I could manage just 3.5 Km/ltr. This included soft sand and the Freshwater track but this gave me the consumptions numbers I've used to for my Simpson trip. Towing the van I averaged about 4.5 Km/ltr but I'd probably get a better result driving a little more economically.

So this is the bad news, the great news is that this is a very capable tow vehicle. It is just fantastic in all situations - I did say I liked it! Happy for the $ pain for performance.

I guess if it is JUST about fuel consumption you'd go the Paj.

Kind regards

I can only comment on the 4.5 I have accurate figures. I avg around 19 around town, beach driving is around 25 with tyres down. Towing my camper on the beach is around 30 and on the road it's 25

I can only comment on a Pajero Diesel. We have a Tvan which is lighter however we do load it when traveling. We get between 13.2 and 15ltr/100 when traveling at around 90 to 95ks per hour

I have a diesal Prado towing a 2000 kilo van I average 17 -18 litres 100 ks towing at 90 klh .the biggest problem with the Pajero is the back door over the tow hitch very awkward to open properly