All new Toyota Yaris revealed!

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

They could get low 3's per 100 with a diesel.

Ford have a 1.5L diesel - no reason why they can't make a modern day Fiesta Econetic that can match the output of the Yaris hybrid.

It can be done. For a while I drove a Fiat Punto 1.25 diesel. Got low 3's per 100 on the freeway and it wasn't anything special, just a run of the mill car with a small diesel engine that would be 15 years old now.

I wish Photobucket still worked - I have a picture where the 'low fuel' warning light came on and the DTE was still 265ish km!

Before that the only sub 3L /100 car was the VW Lupo - but that was a very small 3dr micro car that was around the 2000's. Now a mob in India that sells Suzuki's or something have developed a 800cc diesel that uses bugger all and surprise surprise they are all over the local news as the most fuel efficient car available.

The thing that sucks with diesel is all the emissions crapola that comes with it - I reckon diesel has had it's day for passenger vehicles.