2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42
Estimating an SUV by saving fuel costs is somehow illogical. If a cross-country vehicle, then, by definition, it must be equipped with a powerful engine with significant fuel consumption. This is first. And secondly, diesel engines are more economical than gasoline engines with equal power, and it makes no sense to put them in the same row. Nevertheless, SUV fuel economy ratings are compiled by experts at various levels and in different countries.
Evaluation of German experts
Specialists of the analytical center AutoUncle, taking as a base more than one and a half million cars sold in Germany, have compiled a list of the most economical SUVs and crossovers. Cars not older than 2008 were taken into account, only with diesel and gasoline engines. We're not talking about hybrids.walked.
The Germans did not determine the most economical SUV in terms of fuel consumption, because the first ten places were taken by compact crossovers, which was to be expected. And both the first and last places went to Renault Captur. The first with a flow rate of 3.6 liters is for the diesel version, the tenth with a flow rate of five liters is for the gasoline version.
Moreover, engines of the same power, only 90 hp. with., differ only in volume - 0, 9 and one and a half liters on gasoline and diesel fuel, respectively.
The conclusion can be unambiguous: a real SUV will be the most economical if the fuel consumption indicator approaches 5 liters per 100 km.
Hybrid SUV
In 2015, a hybrid version of the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEW SUV appeared in Russia. The power of its gasoline engine is as much as 160 "horses". The manufacturer claims that this is the most economical SUV in terms of fuel consumption (gasoline is saved in an amount of at least 1.6 liters per hundred kilometers by charging the car from the electrical network). Well, or one of the most economical.
If, with the same mass, a two-liter gasoline engine of an SUV with a capacity of 146 liters. With. consumes more than 7.5 liters per 100 kilometers in mixed mode, then the engine of its hybrid counterpart with the same displacement and 118 hp. With. – already less than five and a half liters.
True, if electricity is considered a separate type of fuel, then is itfuel-efficient hybrid SUV is not very clear.
Rating of diesel SUVs
Since diesel engines consume less fuel than gasoline ones, SUVs with such engines lead the ranking.
The most economical SUV in terms of fuel consumption (diesel) - Renault Duster. The 90-liter 1.5-liter (and in the new restyled model - 109 hp) diesel engine shows fuel consumption of about five liters on a smooth road. In urban conditions, of course, more, but also better than many.
The second is Nissan X-Trail NEW. Many fans will call it the best. Fuel consumption is more than a gram per 100, but an engine of almost the same size develops 130 hp. With. and more than 300 Nm of torque at the same rpm as the Duster. This is already a full-fledged, powerful enough SUV.
Next on the list are the Ford Kuga with a 150 hp two-liter engine. With. and a six-speed manual gearbox with 5.5 liters, Ssang Young Actyon with a capacity of 149 liters. With. and 5.7 liters and Skoda Yeti, which can hardly be called an SUV, but with all-wheel drive and a turbodiesel, it looks decent and shows fuel consumption of 6.3 liters per 100 km.
Budget French SUV
Actually, the Duster is a budget small crossover weighing less than 1.4 tons with poor basic equipment, but with very good off-road qualities. Fully independent multi-link suspension, at 1750 rpm torque 250 Nm,high, more than two hundred millimeter ground clearance and short overhangs allow the French car to confidently go off-road.
To call the most economical SUV in terms of fuel consumption the best would be a clear exaggeration. After all, the maximum speed to which a hundred-strong SUV with a six-speed manual can accelerate is 167 km / h. Up to 100 km / h, the acceleration time is more than 13 seconds. Starting off, he covers the first kilometer in 35 seconds.
Rating of SUVs on gasoline
The most economical petrol SUVs in terms of fuel consumption are the Citroen C4 Aircross with an average of less than 6 liters with a 117 hp 1.6 MT 2WD power plant. s., then the Mitsubishi ASX, whose engine consumes a little more than 6 liters with the same parameters, which is behind the Mazda CX-5, Opel Mokka and Nissan Qashqai.
Mazda CX-5 consumes more gasoline, but the engine is two-liter, its power is already 150 hp. s., a torque of 210 Nm is achieved at 4 thousand rpm. The dimensions of the Mazda are about the same as those of the leader of the rating, but the ground clearance is already quite off-road - 215 mm. It is up to the driver to decide whether saving 300g of fuel per 100km is worth such a noticeable loss of power and other advantages of the car.
Opel Mokka, consuming a little more than six liters of gasoline per 100 kilometers, is available in all-wheel drive, unlike the first three. The engine, the volume of which is 1.4 liters, develops a power of 140 liters. With. at a torque of 6 thousand revolutions inminute. The maximum torque is 200 Nm. With a slightly smaller size, it has a ground clearance of almost 20 cm.
Nissan Qashqai with 140hp 2.0L engine. With. and the minimum consumption of gasoline for the Kashkaev line of 6.4 liters is supplied in a front-wheel drive version.
Citroen SUV
The most economical SUV in terms of fuel consumption (gasoline) C4 Aircross consumes less fuel than other models, but it cannot boast of remarkable performance either. Its curb weight is less than 1.3 tons, length - 4.3, width - 1.8, height - 1.6 m, ground clearance - 0.17 m. Citroen accelerates to 183 km / h, 100 km / h reaches in 11.3 seconds. This is a front-wheel drive crossover with good off-road performance and a not very torquey engine. Maximum torque - only 154 Nm - can be achieved at 4 thousand rpm.
In the all-wheel drive version, more like an SUV, a two-liter engine with 150 hp is installed. With. A torque of around 200 Nm is achieved at slightly higher revs. Citroen accelerates to a speed of under 190 km / h, it manages to reach 100 km / h in almost 11 seconds. But the consumption of gasoline in the combined cycle is already 8 liters.
That is, for SUVs with gasoline engines, fuel consumption depends more significantly on engine power than for their diesel counterparts, which means off-road performance too.
Real SUVs
Analysis of the most economical ones, if we talk about the fuel consumed, especially gasoline, shows some stretching of the results. Whatever one may say, but the most economical ones are, strictly speaking, not SUVs, but cars with good cross-country ability. If you go from the opposite, then from the line of the best five real, high-traffic, you can choose the most economical SUV in terms of fuel consumption in Russia, that is, the one for which the price does not reach sky-high heights.
The top five inexpensive strong jeeps include the Korean Ssang Yong Kyron, the Chinese Great Wall Hover H3, the Japanese Suzuki Jimny and two domestic jeeps that are not found in private use, maybe in vain - UAZ Patriot and Hunter.
The manufacturer does not provide official data on fuel consumption for domestic SUVs, but, according to reviews, it is very high.
If we separately take the weakest diesel and gasoline engine modification with the lowest fuel consumption, it turns out that the best is the small "Japanese" Suzuki Jimny with a gasoline engine and manual transmission. It consumes 7.3 liters of fuel per 100 km. Even the diesel Ssang Yong Kyron lags behind with a fuel consumption of just under eight liters.
Specifications of SUVs
Small, angular, four-seater, with three doors, but the most fuel-efficient Suzuki SUV in terms of fuel consumption with a length of just over 3.5 m, a width of 1.6 m and a weight of abouttons boasts a ground clearance of 19 cm. Complete with a gasoline engine, the volume of which is 1.3 liters and the power is 85 liters. With. at six thousand rpm, and a torque of 110 nm, the "Japanese" consumes 6.2 liters on the highway, and more than 9 liters of fuel per 100 km in the city.
Larger in all respects, both geometric and technical, except for clearance, more comfortable and equipped Korean Kyron with a two-liter diesel engine with 140 hp. With. (4000 rpm) and a five-speed manual gearbox consumes an average of 7.8 liters of diesel fuel. But the maximum torque is already 310 rpm, the maximum speed is 167 km/h.
The question of which SUV is the most economical in terms of fuel consumption is easy to answer, if you do not take into account any other parameters and characteristics of the car. When you need to compare this, no doubt, important criterion with the desired data of the machine, it becomes much more difficult to answer it. Therefore, every driver who wants to buy an SUV must make for himself a whole list of the advantages and disadvantages of a car that he is ready to put up with.
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