oakridge 5 Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 The Prius has now done 25,000 miles so I thought I would have a little look back.I have used the same spreadsheet since June 1999 when we changed from proper Land Rovers doing heavy work to a new Freelander diesel.The overall average for the Freelander was 33.4 mpgFor the Rover 75 CDT 38 mpgFor the Rover 75 CDTi 39.6For the Prius 52.4So the Prius does represent a great improvement - about 25% I think.Malcolm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Madasafish 130 Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 You don't say whether any of the above were autos or are you comparing manual diesels to an auto Prius? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oakridge 5 Posted September 22, 2012 Author Share Posted September 22, 2012 Yes, Madasafish, they were all manual. The Prius is the first automatic we have had since our Triumph 2.5PI in the 70s which managed about 17mpg.Malcolm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Madasafish 130 Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 I got about 25 mpg from my Triumph 2.5PI and 30 on a long run - manual with overdrive... Nice car . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oakridge 5 Posted September 23, 2012 Author Share Posted September 23, 2012 In our home town there was a Jensen specialist who told Christine to drive the car hard and the Bosch injection would run better, so she did and it did. We had it some time and the only problem we had was that the high pressure fuel pump failed once.The Prius beats the Rovers on almost every count with one or two exceptions; it doesn't have the 'presence' of the Rover and it doesn't have automatic locking or electric seat adjustment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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