Excellent, just shows there's life in diesel yet, particularly on the highways, and where S/S tech can be used in town.

Thanks for showing that diesels are not nowhere near as dead as they portray them to be. Why buy hybrid when you get the same or better fuel consumption from a diesel. Im not sure about other countries in EU, but where I live diesel is ~0.2-0.3€/L cheaper that gasoline (~1.85€/L for gasoline, ~1.60€/L for diesel).

To be honest, with all the cars you get and the aproach you have I personally would appreciate if you would comment on drive handling, comfort, technical aspects, noise isolation, maybe include headlight performance with keeping your main idea of real world consumption while experience person is drivong as a main aspect of these reviews. I say this because I tested some of the cars you did and I got consumption near yours while some of the other reviewers had different values meaning they don't represent the real ones. Also had experience of founding some cars comfortable although some reviews with a lot of subscribers with same configurations said that some of the are loud and what not...

Helmut, thanks for your video. The diesel is not available in the U.S. I believe its called the Ford Escape here. Diesel fuel in the U.S. is usually anywhere from 50 cents to a dollar more per gallon compared to regular gasoline (87 octane). I will stick with a fuel efficient Toyota Hybrids that run on 87 octane gasoline, as our 2020 Highlander Hybrid all wheel drive, and 2022 Rav 4 Prime, have been very fuel efficient. Probably as good as a diesel with both engines having a 14/1 compression ratio.

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I think you may have accidentally switched the figures for mpg in the city and the overall in the summary.

great video again. but cant understand the big hybrid cars in genarel. i drive a diesel car (Megane grandtour) and the consumption is exactly the same 4.4. we just went on holiday about 350km from here drove around alot there and back home with 1800km on the meter. consumption 4.4 the hybrid cars are nice in the city but you dont realy need a car that size just to go shopping. thx for the upload numbers dont lie keep them comming ;)

Found your channel late but really not ideal driving for any turbo engine. The uphill is quite obvious here where you were demanding power off boost. Also with the turbo diesel, prolonged running below turbo range leads to clogged turbos and costly repairs. I'm quite sure that the hill section would be much better at 2000rpm.

Hybrid version in warm countries is nowhere near as efficient as it doesn't kick in when the AC is on, so you're effectively carrying round heavy batteries for nothing.