Yes, the pumps themselves are often dirty (a box on disposable plastic gloves will fix that) and, yes, few diesels are exactly exciting to drive (though that's changing too), but the day-to-day economic benefits of the modern compression ignition engine cannot be ignored for too much longer. Unlike some manufacturer's at times laughable claims, this economy - better than 50mpg in the old scale - was real-world.Īs regular readers will attest, this diesel dunce is sounding like a broken record, but there's very little reason why we Aussies shouldn't run our four-wheel lives on distillate. What's more we'd also spent a day at either end, fighting with city traffic - on the same tank. We'd easily done the Melbourne-Sydney trip on one tank of diesel. DTE (distance to empty) was still reading 60km. Scrolling through the C-Class' trip computer the all-important number was 5.3lt/100km. After grabbing the keys back from the friendly crew at Qantas valet parking, I kicked the little Benz back into life, the now-familiar rattle quite strident in the enclosed space. Running for the plane (late again!), I nearly forgot to check the final figure.
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