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Originally Posted by sallycivic22ctdi
My 2.2ctdi ES car's only done 2800 miles, so I think it is yet to fully run in but economy is rather poor and even driving it at 65mph I am lucky to get much over 53mpg.
This compares to 65-70mpg when I drive my wife's Ford Focus 1.6TDCI. That said, the Civic has a lot more power and I suspect that the variable valve timing comes into play increasing performance during acceleration, at the expense of economy. I must say that I find the book economy figures a little hard to believe. I hope it improves as with the current diesel price hikes I am tending to use the Focus to save money.
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The book economy figures are always 15-20% optimistic, for every manufacturer. So I'd say 53 MPG is rather OK for a new 2.2 liter engine.
Besides that, it's not a fair comparison, a 1.6 liter against a 2.2 liter engine. Bigger engine means lower MPG, laws of nature basically
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The focus will be much more economic, but will have have much less power and smoothness and will be much less fun to drive.