I'm looking at buying my first Pajero as both a daily driver and a road tripper.
What I can't seem to get any info about is the difference in city/highway fuel consumption between the SWB and LWB diesels in the 2nd and 3rd generation models- can anybody help?
Spalexan,
See it's your first post, welcome.
Your question may be just one sentence, but it is quite a mouth full
You want to look at four different Pajeros in both city and open road.
Because you include the Gen 2, I assume you are looking at a late 90's or early 20's model. Petrol motors can vary from 3.0V6 to 3.5V6 twin cam or 3,5V6 single cam and diesel will be either the 2.8 Gen2 or 3.2DiD Gen3.
All of those motors were fitted to SWB and LWB models.
The petrol motors all give roughly the same consumption. If you insist on more detail, I'd say that the order in which I named them (also the order in which they appeared on the market) is the order in which they improve on consumption. A heavy car with a V6 petrol motor is heavy on fuel, but the biggest influence is with the driver. A fair number to work with is 16L/100km under stop/start conditions to a best of 12 - 13L/100km on the open road. A SWB is a fraction lighter than the LWB, but the consumption difference isn't really noticeable. The biggest fuel eater on a big 4x4 is the wind resistance.
The diesels have the 2.8 in the Gen2 and the 3.2DiD in the Gen3. There should be a noticeable difference in consumption between those two, with the 3.2DiD being the lightest by a reasonable margin. The DiD also offers much better performance and if I had to bet on which diesel engine will be the most reliable of all 4x4SUVs, I'll put my money on the DiD. The diesel engines are not that much affected by drive style and traffic as the petrol ones. You should be able to achieve from 10L/100km to 13L/100km.
Hope this helps,
Roelf
See it's your first post, welcome.
Your question may be just one sentence, but it is quite a mouth full
You want to look at four different Pajeros in both city and open road.
Because you include the Gen 2, I assume you are looking at a late 90's or early 20's model. Petrol motors can vary from 3.0V6 to 3.5V6 twin cam or 3,5V6 single cam and diesel will be either the 2.8 Gen2 or 3.2DiD Gen3.
All of those motors were fitted to SWB and LWB models.
The petrol motors all give roughly the same consumption. If you insist on more detail, I'd say that the order in which I named them (also the order in which they appeared on the market) is the order in which they improve on consumption. A heavy car with a V6 petrol motor is heavy on fuel, but the biggest influence is with the driver. A fair number to work with is 16L/100km under stop/start conditions to a best of 12 - 13L/100km on the open road. A SWB is a fraction lighter than the LWB, but the consumption difference isn't really noticeable. The biggest fuel eater on a big 4x4 is the wind resistance.
The diesels have the 2.8 in the Gen2 and the 3.2DiD in the Gen3. There should be a noticeable difference in consumption between those two, with the 3.2DiD being the lightest by a reasonable margin. The DiD also offers much better performance and if I had to bet on which diesel engine will be the most reliable of all 4x4SUVs, I'll put my money on the DiD. The diesel engines are not that much affected by drive style and traffic as the petrol ones. You should be able to achieve from 10L/100km to 13L/100km.
Hope this helps,
Roelf
Thanks Roelf, I didn't realize there was such a difference between the 2.8 and 3.2 so now I guess I have some reading to do.
-spalexan
-spalexan