After a successful New Zealand North-South drive at an average of 64mpg last month, the Suzuki Alto has taken part in a further MPG marathon, this time down through Australia, managing to complete the journey at an average consumption of 72mpg overall.
That represented an 18.5 per ent improvement over the official Australian combined figure and a staggering 141mpg (2.0 L/100km) attained in City traffic – the lowest recorded of any entered vehicle.
The Global Green Challenge ran North-South from Darwin to Adelaide and placed conventional and alternative fuel cars against each other in a 1,900 miles real world test.
Alto won the ‘Light’ and ‘Small’ car categories; ‘best urban cycle’ category and an overall CO2 emission of 89.9g/km, using just 123 litres of fuel for the seven-day trip.
The Alto is one of the lowest emission vehicles on sale in Ireland at 103g/km with an annual Road Tax of €104. Alto is priced at €11,500 for the manual and €13,295 for the automatic model.
