{"id":1148,"date":"2009-10-19T11:09:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T11:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2009-10-19T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T11:09:20","slug":"vivaro-beats-official-mpg-figure-by-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/1148","title":{"rendered":"Vivaro Beats Official MPG Figure By 60%"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve grown used to treating manufacturers’ official fuel consumption figures with a pinch of salt, thinking of them more as an ideal than a reality. That attitude could need some revision, however, even for van drivers.<\/p>\n

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The winning team & their Vivaro - \u00a9 GM Corp.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the recent Fleetworld\/ALD MPG Marathon, drivers had to complete a 360-mile course over varied roads using the least fuel possible. Granted, the vans weren’t loaded and didn’t have to contend with the demands of multi-drop, the M25 at rush hour and other such fuel-guzzling activities.<\/p>\n

All the same, the results were remarkable – the Vauxhall Vivaro’s class-winning result was an overall 55.25mpg over the entire course – a massive 60% above<\/strong> the Vivaro’s official combined fuel consumption figure <\/strong>of 34.4mpg. Participating vehicles also had to maintain an average speed of 30mph – so their progress was fairly realistic in terms of road speed.<\/p>\n

Also competing was the Citroen Nemo, which took the title of “Britain’s Most Economical Van”, beating all other light commercial vehicles with an overall consumption figure of 75.8mpg – more than 20% above the Nemo’s official combined figure.<\/p>\n

What this highlights is how big an effect the driver of a van has on its fuel consumption. Sure, real world factors like load, multi-drop, traffic and routing restrictions mean that results like this won’t be achieved by working vans – but worthwhile improvements should still be possible, especially for vehicles on longer-distance work.<\/p>\n

I’m going to have to try and squeeze more than 35mpg out of my Transit…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The winning mpg figures achieved by the Vauxhall Vivaro and Citroen Nemo in the recent Fleetworld MPG Marathon highlights how much impact driving technique has on fuel consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[193,86,729,730,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}