sort of like saying a single cylinder 500cc motorbike works harder than a 2 or four cyl 500cc bike. rubbish IMO
kngfhrt,
Sep 18, 4:53am
r15 wrote: having had both a 1 litre manual sirion and a 1.3 litre manual sirion as work vehicles.
the fuel economy with me giving it a bit of shit was always around 7 litres/100km,which was pretty much the same as eachother in consumption! fact or friction!i would have thought the 1 litre's fuel consumption would be noticeably less than the 1.3!
smac,
Sep 18, 5:46am
It's not about size, or number of cylinders, it's about power. It's the power (or lack thereof) that means it will have shorter gearing, and it's the shorter gearing (i.e. higher revs) that makes people think it's "working harder" at a higher speed. The only person who can decide if this car is right is your daughter. However if she is going to do regular long trips, which you say she is, make sure she takes it for a good fang on the highway before buying. At least 15 minutes to get an idea of noise etc.
sifty,
Sep 18, 5:51am
Yep, had my one sitting comfortably at well over 200 k's too.
ceebee2,
Sep 18, 6:06am
We hired a 3 cylinder car (Suzuki Alto) from Perth a month ago for 4 weeks and drove it to Busselton which is 2 hours south of Perth + heaps of daily running. A bit under powered yes BUT the economy was fantastic. Only filled it once ($30AUS) and must admit for general local driving and parking was really ideal. Found it ok on long straights (No cruise control) and actually overtook a couple of cars.LOL. I say go for it. I know you are looking at Sirion but the Alto is quite comparable to it.
mirrhing,
Sep 18, 7:55am
Thanks everyone for your replies.We took it for a test drive yesterday for 40 minutes on city and country roads and it performed really well.The only problem was trying to accelerate from 60 to 80 up a hill - it didn't like it.But as I said tomy daughter, my bigger engined Laser wouldn't like doing that either.Once again guys, thanks for your input.We are just waiting for the AA inspection to be done.
chevcamaro,
Sep 18, 11:10am
waste of money getting an aa check,you may as well get the labridor down the road give it a sniff test, same result but cheaper to get the dog test
r15,
Sep 18, 4:26pm
it probably would be if the car was 25% lighter, but in the real world, to achieve the same speeds you have to thrash the little 1 litre, while the 1.3 will cruise at the same speed or acceleration on the same piece of road.
petermcg,
Sep 18, 4:27pm
The little 3 cyl will be a nice economical (fuel usage) car and not a bad way to go if you are going to keep your speed down, but the down side is that the little car will not be very good economy (money wise) and will devalue quickly and will probably not do the miles that another car might do,but if its only going to cost a few hundred dollars to own it,, thats way better than the guys new car which cost him $58,000 and is now only worth $3000
smac,
Sep 18, 4:50pm
It takes X amount of energy to move a car from rest to a set speed. If the cars weigh more or less the same, there's no reason why the bigger engine will burn more fuel to achieve the same result. It still only has to produce the same amount of energy, so unless the smaller engine somehow has a more efficient way of producing that X energy, they'll use approximately the same amount of fuel to do it. What comes into play is gearing, so often you'll see a bigger engined car using less fuel. It all depends on the type of driving.
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