Simple Life : How much your car spend on fuel?

One of the daily expenses that almost everyone has to spend on is fuel for their vehicle. We used our car daily to travel and go to work, but every kilometer the car took us, it demand spending through its fuel usage.

There are a lot of tips of how we can change or optimize our driving style in order to reduce the fuel consumption. However, today, I would like to touch only on the car and engine type.

No matter how you drive, the car engine and specification draws a baseline on how much fuel in average that your car will consume. Even you drive slowly, if the engine required a certain minimum amount of fuel usage, that is as far as you can get on fuel saving.

So, if you are looking for car that fuel efficient, do look out on the car specification for the fuel consumption.

I found at http://www.vcacarfueldata.org.uk, there is a full study on average fuel consumption. The fuel consumption test was done based on Directive 80/1268/EEC as amended by 2004/3/EC. The test covers 2 cycles, urban cycle to simulate our town driving and extra-urban cycle to simulate driving on expressway or highway.

I uploaded the full list at here, which you can also download from Download Corner “Excel : Car Fuel Consumption List”. I have filtered only on cars that used Petrol. A portion of the file snapshot can be found below. Here, I focused on car that spends lesser than RM0.12 on town drive only. Check out if your car is on the fuel efficiency list. Make sure you grab the full list from the free download for a complete listing.

Based on this list, the most fuel efficient car on all roads are Toyota iQ and Smart Fortwo Coupe.

Manufacturer	Model	Transmission	Engine Capacity	Urban-Cold Fuel Usage (l/100km)	Fuel cost per km (MYR)
CITROEN	C1	M5	998	5.5	0.10
DAIHATSU	Sirion	M5	998	6.1	0.11
FIAT	500	SAT5	1242	6.2	0.11
FIAT	500	SAT5	1242	5.6	0.10
FIAT	500	M5	1242	5.7	0.10
FIAT	500	SAT5	1242	6.2	0.11
FORD	New Ka, Post 2009½ Model Year	M5	1242	6.3	0.11
HONDA	Civic Hybrid	CVT	1339	5.2	0.09
HYUNDAI	i10	M5	1086	6.1	0.11
HYUNDAI	i10	M5	1248	6.3	0.11
HYUNDAI	i10	M5	1086	6.3	0.11
KIA	Picanto	M5	999	5.9	0.11
KIA	Picanto	M5	1086	6.2	0.11
MITSUBISHI	i	A4	658	5.4	0.10
PEUGEOT	107	M5	998	5.5	0.10
PEUGEOT	107	A5	998	5.5	0.10
PEUGEOT	107	A5	998	5.5	0.10
PEUGEOT	107 Facelift	M5	998	5.5	0.10
PEUGEOT	107 Facelift	A5	998	5.5	0.10
SMART	fortwo cabrio	A5	799	5.2	0.09
SMART	fortwo coupé	A5	799	4.9	0.09
SMART	fortwo coupé	A5	999	6.1	0.11
SMART	fortwo coupé	A5	999	6.1	0.11
SUBARU	Justy	M5	998	6.1	0.11
SUZUKI	Alto	5MT	996	5.5	0.10
SUZUKI	Splash	5MT	996	5.9	0.11
TOYOTA	Aygo	5MT	998	5.5	0.10
TOYOTA	Aygo	Multi5	998	5.5	0.10
TOYOTA	Aygo	M5	998	5.5	0.10
TOYOTA	Aygo	Multi5	998	5.5	0.10
TOYOTA	Aygo	Multi5	998	5.5	0.10
TOYOTA	iQ	M5	998	4.9	0.09
TOYOTA	iQ	MultiDrive	998	5.7	0.10
TOYOTA	Prius	E-CVT	1497	5.0	0.09
TOYOTA	Yaris	M5	998	6.0	0.11
TOYOTA	Yaris	M6	1329	6.2	0.11
TOYOTA	Yaris	M6	1329	6.2	0.11
TOYOTA	Yaris	M6	1329	6.2	0.11
VAUXHALL	Agila MY2008	M5	996	5.9	0.11