2011 Kial SOUL 1.6L gas consumption

[Animetal]

Bumili ng kia soul yung GF ko yung 1.6L A/T gas. Parang medyo malakas sa gas halos kasing lakas ng 2010 Tucson GLS gas ko, 8km/L highway driving. SLEX speed 70-90kph, ayaw pa ihataw ng GF ko kaya mabagal lang takbo. Normal lang ba ito? Sino pang owners ng 1.6L soul? Feedback naman mga sir.

[ghosthunter]

Bumili ng kia soul yung GF ko yung 1.6L A/T gas. Parang medyo malakas sa gas halos kasing lakas ng 2010 Tucson GLS gas ko, 8km/L highway driving. SLEX speed 70-90kph, ayaw pa ihataw ng GF ko kaya mabagal lang takbo. Normal lang ba ito? Sino pang owners ng 1.6L soul? Feedback naman mga sir.

Maybe you can teach your GF a few fuel saving tips?

http://tsikot.com/forums/car-economy...-summer-81618/

[ghosthunter]

Bumili ng kia soul yung GF ko yung 1.6L A/T gas. Parang medyo malakas sa gas halos kasing lakas ng 2010 Tucson GLS gas ko, 8km/L highway driving. SLEX speed 70-90kph, ayaw pa ihataw ng GF ko kaya mabagal lang takbo. Normal lang ba ito? Sino pang owners ng 1.6L soul? Feedback naman mga sir.

I have driven the SOUL 1.6L and it can go 0-100kph rather quickly but it does seem to favor a cruising speed of around 90kph.

8km/L (highway) for a 1.6L is rather low, maybe some changes in driving habits can improve that.

[niky]

Wait for it to break in. New engines only hit their stride after about 10,000 kilometers.

And she might be driving too slow. Though what is more important than actual cruising speed is how you get there. If she spends too long accelerating (taking, for example, one whole minute to get to 80 km/h), that can explain the poor fuel consumption.

[locoroco777]

sir niky, is there an official or a reported FC of the 1.6 soul?

[niky]

Don't know official. I was not the one who did the Soul article for the magazine, so I have no firsthand knowledge of the fuel consumption, but I have driven it on two separate test drives.

[ghosthunter]

Official fuel mileage of the SOUL 1.6 is 11(city)/13(highway) Km/L