Comments on: What would consume more petrol on the motorway/highway, a big engined car or a small engined car ?

By: katie

katie — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:13:27 +0000

Sorry to rain on your parade but in a controlled and constant environment, say at about 150mph the Mercedes will consume less petrol than the golf BUT on city driving and pretty much every single other driving situation out there, the golf will have better gas mileage than the Mercedes.

You can quote me on that.

By: haapa_em1

haapa_em1 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:13:08 +0000

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technically the bigger the engine the more fuel used to run. the golf would use less fuel, but then it depends on driving conditions, if the person driving golf accelerated as fast as possible and kept driving like that, then one can assume his fuel usage would be higher than just normal driving.

By: Helper

Helper — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:53:51 +0000

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In general big engines use more gas than small engines.

But that is the general case. You will find that Corvette is very good on gas on the HWY. That’s because the car is so aerodynamic (and light).

So for specific, you would have to look up the detail.

But in general bigger = more gas.

Good Luck…

By: If

If — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:25:01 +0000

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Depends, partially, on how fast you’re going; which engine is spending most time near it’s sweet spot (and how much the car weighs, engine age, etc,). All other things being equal, averaging 70mph my money would be on the Golf returning better mpg.