I’m a newbie here, turned 18 last December. My family owned a Ciaz before, and we just bought the new Kia Carens luxury plus 7 DCT this May. Will make an ownership thread in a while. I have always loved to try to extract the highest mileage possible. In the Ciaz, I have managed to extract 35kmpl ( it was a 1.3l diesel alpha 2017), verified by tank to tank (cuz it showed a max of 30 in the mid). In the Carens I have managed to extract 31.7, though I only took the pic of 30.2<\/p>\n
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The 31.5 was extracted from hosur to krishnagiri and there was medium traffic with 3 trucks in three lanes at times!!! Since I have traveled quite a bit after that, i don’t remember much details.<\/p>\n
I traveled from Bangalore to Chennai yesterday at about 6.30pm ( reached at 1:37 am). There was heavy traffic and it was difficult to keep up the ideal speed. I could extract 25 kmpl on the highway including bangalore’s city traffic and excluding chennai’s traffic and diversions en route ( about 20 kms). I forgot to click the pic of the MID at the end of journey.<\/p>\n
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This route also includes about 20 diversions which start from Vellore to Kanchipuram, hence the mileage dropped to 22 kmpl (don’t have the pic of that)<\/p>\n
Finally with Chennai’s traffic and all the hassles from Kanchipuram, I could extract a final mileage 21.1 kmpl (with about 40 kms of city) We were 3 people and a husky with overloaded luggage. AC was on 100 % of the time.<\/p>\n
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