Quite a frugal powerhouse!

After the first road tests where this engine figured - in that of the Palio 1.6 - we had given up any of the cars powered by this same engine being fuel efficient. Thus when the Siena 1.6 returned decent fuel consumption figures, we were pleasantly surprised. The in-town fuel consumption of under 8kmpl was quite worrying in the case of the Palio 1.6 GTX. But since then the Siena 1.6, which is powered by the same engine, went over nine kilometres to a litre of fuel in the city and the fuel efficiency test carried out on the Adventure achieved a similar result. With the estate returning nearly 16kmpl on the highway, the combined fuel efficiency figure works out to an impressive 12.55kmpl.

I must hasten to add that most of the cars we get for road tests barely have a few hundred kilometres on their odometers. The fuel efficiency of the cars is bound to increase once they have been run in properly and serviced the first couple of times.

With a fuel tank capacity of 51 litres the range of the Adventure is a respectable 640km.