LONG-TERM FLEET
Fuel consumption down, but the temperature soars for passengers
The lack of traffic in the holidays was great for consumption in the Renault Kadjar, reports Mark Smyth
The great thing about staying in Johannesburg over the holidays is the lack of traffic. The main benefit is a more relaxed drive but there is another major benefit too, in the form of fuel consumption. Heavy stop-start traffic day after day in rush hour can push your consumption figure up so you wonder if you will ever get close to that seemingly unattainable figure claimed by the manufacturer. Then all the traffic disappears and you spend less time on the brake and you might even get the chance to engage cruise control, at 60km/h, in town. Who knew you could do that? Perhaps my wife — she likes to drive on the cruise control all over the place. Little traffic Over the holidays, with hardly anyone else on the roads, the consumption figure started to drop. I did not reset it though, so it was still going to take into account the months in traffic before that, but the figure came down from 7.1l to 6.9l/100km. Now imagine if traffic flowed better, if people observed the keep left, pass...
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