Recently on the annual Fleet Car Honda Coast-to-Coast Challenge two Honda CR-V Sports Utility Vehicles were used for a fuel economy run. 

Both cars were fitted with the new 1.6 i-DTEC diesel and were put to the test in the cross-border drive taking in the two Titanic Centres in Belfast and Cobh.

On this occasion, the CR-V recorded an impressive result.  After covering almost 900 kilometres of ‘normal’ driving on motorway and urban routes, the 1.6 i-DTEC in the CR-V used on average 4.9L/100 km equating to 57.7 mpg. On the Dublin-Belfast-Dublin run alone, the 64.2 mpg (4.4 L/100) achieved, comfortably topped the Honda factory figures of 4.5L/100 or 62 mpg.

En route from Belfast to Cobh various stops were made at the Applegreen and Topaz Motorway Services at Castlebellingham, County Louth and Cashel, County Tipperary to stream ongoing progress of the run on the Social Media (Twitter and Facebook).  Both CR-Vs then finally met up at the Junction 14 (Mayfield) Services at Monasterevin, County Kildare to go through the facts and figures to determine the averages.

Emmet Kavanagh, Marketing Manager at Universal Honda was pleased with the results, the record run and the combined figures.  “What appealed most to us when accepting the Fleet Car Challenge was the opportunity to prove the fuel-efficiency of the CR-V in normal, real-world driving.  The CR-V offers the highest official fuel economy of any SUV in the class, and while it would have been easy to rest on this, we instead took the challenge to truly test the figures and prove the ability of our Earth Dreams Technology in a much more difficult real-world setting.  The team at Fleet Car took our CR-V and drove it at proper motorway speeds and through city traffic, both of which can really reduce fuel economy.  We are very proud of the results achieved as to return around 60 mpg from a large family SUV demonstrates just what our Earth Dreams Technology is about.”