Luxury Cars

payne SG

May i know how is the fuel consumption of BMW 5 and 7 series. For e.g 520i and 730i and the Jaguar S-type 2.5?
Does these car engine have any technology to help to produce efficient fuel consumption?

w2k_83 SG

Seriously if i own a 5 or 7 series, I wouldn’t bother bout the FC heh

TwinTurbo_Supra SG

Laughing

every1 bothers about FC wad.

tailslide SG

continental/ luxury oriented cars suffer from one major prob.

they are heavy.

no matter how efficient the engine is at catalysing the fuel to produce power, it'll always burn more fuel to get the car to move the same distance compared to a lighter car. u can't get the best of both worlds in this case. Wink

alien_04 SG

Funny leh, thot pple who wanna get luxury car only care about status and look, don't think FC is a concern...Can afford luxury car cannot afford petrol ?
Anyway, BMW 730i FC is ard 7 to 8

[email protected] SG

don't think it's wrong to be prudent about the FC. yea can afford is one thing, but if can save petrol then why not?

bri_air SG

Go and find a hybrid car la… If you can find one….. Than can have best of both world la….

zulu4 SG

for 5 and 7 series, u can check out the figures at www.pml.com.sg

coolblue6699 SG

E39 520 2.2L 8-9km/L E60 520 2.2L also the same Laughing

free4ever SG

I agree, of course they can afford say a fuel consumption of say 5km/l, but do they want to spend on that or not is another thing, most probably...no. If you have a chance, talk to these rich people and you will understand. In fact, this is something common among the rich people, at least the few that I have met. Rich people is rich people, spendthrift is another type of people altogether....

Rich is not equal to spendthift...in fact quite a number are almost the opposite.

free4ever SG

For BMW, the engineering of the engine development is in such a way that a new engine replacing a old one is usually more efficient than the old one. Efficiency in terms of more power for same amount of displacement, less fc consumption for bigger engine, etc.

If you are talking about technology like VTEC, probably not for conti cars

BMW's FC is always been better than a Merc. Jaguar has never been in the competition for developing good FC right from the start.

Prestoul SG

2 litres car quite standard, 1L 8-10km. 3 litres around 1L 6-8. BMW never bother much about fuel comsumption, its build totally for sporty driving and comfort. European cars generally have heavier body thus increasing fuel comsumption, you can hardly see much european cars with good FC but it happens to asia cars due to concentration research of FC and also, their light bodies. Don't be surprised 745i has better FC than 730i due to the lesser effort needed to drag the big piece of machine. So, power to weight ratio is important and also, style of driving too. cheers!~ Laughing