Small car, low RPM on motorway ?
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NickCQ said:
Going any distance at 70mph at 4K rpm in a 1.2 hatchback is a truly miserable experience.
Especially if the car has little/no sound proofing, you hear so much tyre roar and engine noise To be honest that's where lots of small hatchbacks fail, they have all the technology but when it comes to sound proofing and having a smooth, refined engine they're not so good, admittedly they have improved a lot in the last 10 years or so.
Mazda 2?
I should think anything relatively new will have fairly high gearing these days.
My Mazda 3 sits somewhere just above 2000 RPM at 70. The engines are quite torquey at the low end of the RPM range so if the 1.5 Skyactiv has the same traits, perhaps they've done similar.
Sometimes you can find this stuff out by watching point of view drive videos on Youtube.
I should think anything relatively new will have fairly high gearing these days.
My Mazda 3 sits somewhere just above 2000 RPM at 70. The engines are quite torquey at the low end of the RPM range so if the 1.5 Skyactiv has the same traits, perhaps they've done similar.
Sometimes you can find this stuff out by watching point of view drive videos on Youtube.
Otispunkmeyer said:
Mazda 2?
I should think anything relatively new will have fairly high gearing these days.
My Mazda 3 sits somewhere just above 2000 RPM at 70. The engines are quite torquey at the low end of the RPM range so if the 1.5 Skyactiv has the same traits, perhaps they've done similar.
Sometimes you can find this stuff out by watching point of view drive videos on Youtube.
That would be perfect, however haven't found that in a smaller car yet. I should think anything relatively new will have fairly high gearing these days.
My Mazda 3 sits somewhere just above 2000 RPM at 70. The engines are quite torquey at the low end of the RPM range so if the 1.5 Skyactiv has the same traits, perhaps they've done similar.
Sometimes you can find this stuff out by watching point of view drive videos on Youtube.
Yes I'll continue trawling
dan98 said:
Otispunkmeyer said:
Mazda 2?
I should think anything relatively new will have fairly high gearing these days.
My Mazda 3 sits somewhere just above 2000 RPM at 70. The engines are quite torquey at the low end of the RPM range so if the 1.5 Skyactiv has the same traits, perhaps they've done similar.
Sometimes you can find this stuff out by watching point of view drive videos on Youtube.
That would be perfect, however haven't found that in a smaller car yet. I should think anything relatively new will have fairly high gearing these days.
My Mazda 3 sits somewhere just above 2000 RPM at 70. The engines are quite torquey at the low end of the RPM range so if the 1.5 Skyactiv has the same traits, perhaps they've done similar.
Sometimes you can find this stuff out by watching point of view drive videos on Youtube.
Yes I'll continue trawling
http://www.wheels-alive.co.uk/new-mazda-2/
Scroll down past the petrol stuff.
But I suspect that car is probably way nicer with the petrol. Ill keep looking.
Otispunkmeyer said:
Ok, I just read a review that puts the diesel version at around 2000 rpm at 70 mph.
http://www.wheels-alive.co.uk/new-mazda-2/
Scroll down past the petrol stuff.
But I suspect that car is probably way nicer with the petrol. Ill keep looking.
Thanks! That looks ideal.http://www.wheels-alive.co.uk/new-mazda-2/
Scroll down past the petrol stuff.
But I suspect that car is probably way nicer with the petrol. Ill keep looking.
I don't mind diesel if it's euro6- going to look at prices now
dan98 said:
Otispunkmeyer said:
Ok, I just read a review that puts the diesel version at around 2000 rpm at 70 mph.
http://www.wheels-alive.co.uk/new-mazda-2/
Scroll down past the petrol stuff.
But I suspect that car is probably way nicer with the petrol. Ill keep looking.
Thanks! That looks ideal.http://www.wheels-alive.co.uk/new-mazda-2/
Scroll down past the petrol stuff.
But I suspect that car is probably way nicer with the petrol. Ill keep looking.
I don't mind diesel if it's euro6- going to look at prices now
For the petrol, it'll do 26mph per 1000 rpm in top gear. So looking at 2700-2800 rpm ish. (this is for the 115 hp version).
the diesel will pull 38.6 mph per 1000 rpm in top.
I got the data from here:
http://www.automobile-catalog.com/
its a pretty horrible site to use, but holds data on a lot of cars.
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