Vehicle & Technical > Range Rover
3.5 Carb or EFi??? Also Manual or Auto???
Range Rover Blues:
I prefer EFi, more power, more reliable, self-tuning, easier to LPG.
And I have heard of 3.5 EFi bettering 20mpg :wink:
Guardian.:
we have all heard of them doing 20mpg+ but there isnt one that will actually really do it.
in the good old days me and a mate both had identicle 4.6hse's bought them together same spec everything except colour, and mine did same as every range rover ive ever had 11mpg mucking about and if i was lucky 15mpg on a run, as for every other one i have owned and i have had a few!
but my mate jonyboy would insist his did 20mpg all the time, same as his v8 jag, constant 25mpg, he just would not accept he was talking rubbish, i drove his on several occasions, and guess what, exactly the same as mine.
simon, if you prepare yourself for 12 - 14 to the gallon, you know what shes gonna cost to run, and if you get more its a miracle, sorry, bonus.
clbarclay:
Based on fuel usage for a given milage recorded by the car, my 3.5 EFI (flapper type) returns about 17 mpg with an auto box, though it doesn benefit from having no rear seats, carpets etc. though then it does carry a fair weight of tools all the time so I doubt its lost and weight over all.
I do drive steadily to achive that, though the engine is not in the best of tune so after some TLC an improvement of an MPG or 2 may be possible, though I expect it will just end up more driveable.
The biggest thing that puts me of carbs is the amount of trouble some people I know have gone to tunning them to get them to run, let alown running well. Fitting snorkels or different air filters will also affect the tune of carbs compared to EFI systems cope better with the change of airflow.
Welshbreed:
mine has carbs, would do about 17-19mpg if running at about 95-100mph in a straight a line as possible (not on the roads, of course...).
simon15:
Just added Manual and Auto into the topic :)
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