7.9 liters per 100 km
10/16/2015
After the first 450 km or so in the "new " Peugeot 205 GTI 1.9, it was time to refuel. The result: the compact sports car had consumed a catalytic converter-cleaned 7.9 liters per 100 km. This seems moderate, given that two mountain passes were crossed and a few highway trips were made, albeit in compliance with the Swiss speed limits. However, the proportion of city traffic was low and there were hardly any short journeys.
The Automobil Revue consumed 8.4 to 11.7 liters per 100 km in the 1989 test; the average at that time was 9.1 liters per 100 km. The test drivers of the magazine Auto Motor und Sport took the 205 GTI 1.9 harder, they even let an average of 10.8 liters run through the injection system. Obviously, today we operate the accelerator pedal more carefully (and in a more classic manner) than our fast colleagues back then.
However, it also shows that the rule of thumb "one liter per 100 kg of weight" still had its justification at the beginning of the nineties, whereas today this value has almost halved. Not that modern cars are so economical on the bottom line, they have gained far too much weight for that. The approximately 880 kg (measured according to the DIN standard) of the Peugeot 205 GTI 1.9 is offset by almost 1.3 tons in the modern successor 208 GTI ...
