Thread: Ute upgrade

Originally Posted by No.3

Exactly, my '13 PX2 manual is returning 8.1L/100 currently, the more modern versions are returning 13.5L/100 in similar roles but with more towing. I remain unsure how burning almost 5.5L/100Km more due to what is explained as emissions controls is better for the environment, when the percentage of each type of gas in the tailpipe is largely unchanged between the models?

Surely someone can explain this to me as I can't get me head around it at all...

It’s getting rid of Fossil fuels faster, so we can get over Global warming faster

Funny - reading back I realised I skipped over the Nissans. My D22 was probably the most capable off road in factory stock trim - this was with the ZD30 engine. Interior plastics sucked, the manual 4wd system was very handy and allowed 2L by not engaging the front hubs which was great for setting trailers on boat ramps etc. Gutless as hell, passed nothing including servo's! D22 with the 2.5L motor was a variation on the theme, ok ute but nothing to get excited about. My D22 got sold off when it started having electrical gremlins, the partial electronic engine management was neither here nor there and with mine something went weird meaning it dropped an entire cog on the hills. Not ideal.

The later D40 was utter garbage, no ground clearance or ramp angles and the mechanical side just sucked. I hear the new version isn't much better, but no real relevant eperience for that version as well.

Bit of a generalisation about new utes using a lot of juice. My V6 ford highway is mid to high 8s. Mixed city driving is low 10s. L/100kms.


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Originally Posted by Dicko

Bit of a generalisation about new utes using a lot of juice. My V6 ford highway is mid to high 8s. Mixed city driving is low 10s. L/100kms.


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Still, the 3.2L ranger I have in the worst traffic in NZ and mixed city/highway is 8.1L/100Km. Not as high as the companies 3.2 and 2L bi-turbo's, but still better than what you report which seems about in the middle. The V6 at 3L shoulod be a little better than the 3.2L 5-cyl but the disappointment is the 2L. Thirsty and expensive to maintain...

My 2021 PX3 is running at 10.7L/100 for town and country. Its on AT's.