Originally Posted by
S3an
What vans do the AA use? They are driven 24 hrs a day and wont look good to be broken down. Renault traffic.
I bought my new trafic because im self employed and was paying for the van out of my own pocket(not company owned and thrashed) it was better value than other over priced vans. I put £80 of diesel in it and it returns 600 miles on the tank. That works out at 39/40 miles to the gallon. its a 27dci+ 115bhp . its horses for causes, how many fords,transporters, vitos or sprinters return them figures?
my vito 111 would do 59 mpg at 60 mph on the motorway cruise so that's one, and with the fridge on it would do close to 35 mpg (this was before the fridges were hard wired to remain running with the engine*)
and even if you thrashed the pants off it on the motorway and reached the dizzying top speed of 112 mph, it would still do 24 mpg
lwb sprinter 313 never did more than 29 mpg no matter how you tried, but never did less than about 23 mpg no matter how hard you tried
the transit, driven sensibly, will do nearly 800 miles to a tank and 450 even around town
the dispatch hdi's did around 600 miles to a tank
the connects are a bit pants on fuel and will struggle to do 300 motorway miles
besides, if the aa vans break down they tend to get fixed properly and not on the side of the road
*these figures are based on years of experience with vans that are fitted with refridgeration units that poke out the top and about 4 to 5 inches worth of insulation that adds approx 300 kgs to the base weight of the van so the figures can be much much better
only one guy i know has a transporter and he paid a lot of money for it, but it was spec'd like a car dual climate control and all that bullshit that goes with it, but he's only had it for about a month so too soon to know what sort of shit it's going to give him