Range Rover 2005-2009 which engine is good?

[NigelM]

Just remember this when choosing a 4x4

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Very tasteful!

 

[ed.poore]

I get anything between 26mpg and 30mpg. Never managed anything like 34mpg before. You must have been driving REALLY carefully!

If I'm just motorway cruising and you zero the counter on the motorway (and stick to the speed limit) 35mpg is perfectly achievable. My Surrey <-> Wales trip normally averages about that pootling along the M4, however it's much more common recently if I'm taking the FF rather than the Defender that I don't pootle very much.

 

[NigelM]

Never tried that one

 

[rodp]

Is this at 70mph?

 

[rodp]

Very tasteful!

Yes, I thought so as well.

 

[ed.poore]

Yep - I've found the best way to be 'economical' with the FF is boot it and get it up to speed then stay at that speed for as long as possible. I managed to average 37 (according to the on-board computer) on a trip down from the Highlands. I have no idea how since we had 5 people in the car, a dog, 6 boulders (yes granite boulders), a 5ft pillar drill and everyone's luggage from a long weekend at my grandpa's 90th. We came down cutting through Yorkshire and then picked up the M1. Topped up in Stirling and was on ~ 1/3rd of a tank when I filled up again in Kingston.