Carnut
Well-known member
Back from Sherborne,
Started in full hybrid mode as no charge capability in Sherborne.
Reached home (87mile round trip) with 58% driven on EV. trip MPG 33.7
Overall MPG dropped from the 80 I achieved on arrival at Sherborne to 44.7
Drove around Poole next day on hybrid to get an idea of urban MPG. turned out to be 36.5.
About the same MPG as my 1.2 DSG Yeti round town.
I reckon that taken overall. Outlander wins because of zero RFL. Otherwise running costs would be almost identical.
BUT!! Outlander more fun to drive and When I planted right foot in the carpet on the A35 at 65MPH (running on hybrid) Torque came in at full chat immediately and went on up to NMH (naughty miles an hour) well, 75max, then dropped back to 70 just to overtake someone, but having been stopped by a very nice young (unmarked BMW estate) constable for a chat, 3 points & £100 fine last March I was not going to try for any more points.
Overall. Very chuffed with the Outlander.
If anyone from Mitsubishi is reading this....things I would like to have altered.
1. Ability to lock screen to the one I want, not have to trawl through all the garbage every time I set off.
2. High beam headlights are pathetic especially for HID. Low beam spread is excellent. For such an electronically advanced car the headlights are a complete joke! Good job I'm not allowed out after dark that often!
Take a lesson from Skoda HID lights, Mitsubishi are centuries behind!
3. Illuminate and mark drivers window switches, I keep on opening/closing the wrong one at night.
4. Cut the crap out of the handbook, get a decent index so your customers can actually find the bit they are looking for and remove all the inane warnings, danger blah blah blah. Keep the important ones by all means.
But some of them only a 3 year old would need to be warned about. If an adult needed to be warned I don't think they should be allowed out on their own, specially in a 2 ton car!
Started in full hybrid mode as no charge capability in Sherborne.
Reached home (87mile round trip) with 58% driven on EV. trip MPG 33.7
Overall MPG dropped from the 80 I achieved on arrival at Sherborne to 44.7
Drove around Poole next day on hybrid to get an idea of urban MPG. turned out to be 36.5.
About the same MPG as my 1.2 DSG Yeti round town.
I reckon that taken overall. Outlander wins because of zero RFL. Otherwise running costs would be almost identical.
BUT!! Outlander more fun to drive and When I planted right foot in the carpet on the A35 at 65MPH (running on hybrid) Torque came in at full chat immediately and went on up to NMH (naughty miles an hour) well, 75max, then dropped back to 70 just to overtake someone, but having been stopped by a very nice young (unmarked BMW estate) constable for a chat, 3 points & £100 fine last March I was not going to try for any more points.
Overall. Very chuffed with the Outlander.
If anyone from Mitsubishi is reading this....things I would like to have altered.
1. Ability to lock screen to the one I want, not have to trawl through all the garbage every time I set off.
2. High beam headlights are pathetic especially for HID. Low beam spread is excellent. For such an electronically advanced car the headlights are a complete joke! Good job I'm not allowed out after dark that often!
Take a lesson from Skoda HID lights, Mitsubishi are centuries behind!
3. Illuminate and mark drivers window switches, I keep on opening/closing the wrong one at night.
4. Cut the crap out of the handbook, get a decent index so your customers can actually find the bit they are looking for and remove all the inane warnings, danger blah blah blah. Keep the important ones by all means.
But some of them only a 3 year old would need to be warned about. If an adult needed to be warned I don't think they should be allowed out on their own, specially in a 2 ton car!
