 Hey, so today we have the BMW 1 Series, the 116i 2014 model. We're going to take this on a road trip of 650 to 680 Ks to the top of New Zealand, the top of the North Island of New Zealand to a place called Kira here. What we're going to test today is we're going to test this fuel economy. So we've had this car for a while now. It does really good mileage, especially in the eco-pro mode. And I decide today, on this trip, it's going to be a good opportunity to test the fuel economy of this car. So I've had this BMW 116i for over a year now. And part of the reason I got it was because of its rated fuel efficiency, the efficient dynamics, I think the BMW efficient dynamics it has. When you're braking and rolling down hills, the energy is sent to charge the battery and a few other things that I don't, to be honest, understand and worry too much about. All I know is it is pretty fuel efficient when you're in eco-pro mode. So the car does have three settings. We've got eco-pro mode, normal mode, which I think is comfort, and then sport mode. So obviously sport mode, you get a little bit more power, but you are going to the gas a bit more. So I have done some big trips on this car, you know, four or five hundred k trips. And I've kept the fuel mileage around the 6.0 litres per 100 k, which is pretty, pretty good. And that's still overtaking vehicles, you know, sitting at the speed limit or a little bit above it. And it is a nice car to drive at, it handles really well. So it's not, you know, I'm not driving like a grandma. I am making the most of the car. But I'm also keen to see how it goes with the fuel mileage. So with this trip, we are going from our home in New Plymouth, which is here in the North Island. There we go. Place called New Plymouth. And we are going to go all the way to the top of the island up to where the number one is. All right. So it's about 650 ks, about eight hours worth of driving. We're going to break it into two or three chunks. We'll go to a beach tonight and stay there for the night. And then we'll drive to Auckland and have lunch tomorrow and then kick on up. So what I'm going to do is I am going to drive this just like I'd usually drive. But I am going to drive it in Eco Pro mode. So I'm going to drive this just like I'd usually drive. But in Eco Pro mode, I'm going to flick it into sport mode when I want to overtake vehicles. And I'm just going to drive it like, you know, like I want to enjoy the ride. But I'm also worried about fuel because it is $2.10 a litre here. So, you know, it's a pretty typical driving experience for me. And, you know, we do have some luggage in the car as well. Rebecca will be here, my partner will be here. So there will be a little bit of weight in the car. But we're going to see how it goes after eight hours of driving. So let's do it. Down here you see the switch between Eco Pro, Comfort and Sport. Okay. So I can just alternate between those. So real quick, I just want to show you. There is a setting on this car that shows, that's not our setting, that shows the fuel consumption to date. So after 40,000 km of having this, it averages at 6.8 per litre per 100 km. Now most of that is probably a combination of city driving and open road driving. And sometimes we have it in sport mode and we enjoy sport mode. So it's still a pretty good number for a turbo vehicle, BMW. Now when I change between the settings here, you'll see on the dash how I've got Eco Pro mode, Comfort or Sport. And there's also Sport Plus. When I change, you also see the center console will change settings. So when we go into Eco Pro mode, not only does it change the gearbox and the automatic transmission, but it's also changing the air conditioning. It's meant to be a little bit more energy efficient. So that's what we're going to do on there. When we are driving, you will see down the bottom right here how it has a little dash showing where an Eco Pro mode and it will have your fuel consumption in real time. It will change and if you're accelerating too hard, it comes up with a little recommendation. So I'm pretty much going to follow that. If it's telling me to take the pressure off my foot and slow down a little bit, then I will. And I'm going to maximize its time and the charge, rolling down hills and all that sort of stuff. Again, I'm not trying to get a record number here. I'm just going to drive it, following the recommendations and enjoy the drive because it is going to be a nice road trip. But also be conscious about fuel. So that's the first leg down 90Ks. As you can see there, it's exactly 6L per 100K. The average speed is just under 72Kmph. So that was city driving. It peak out as well, about 530-ish. Not big city driving, but New Zealand cities. And it's two stops. Stopped at a supermarket and stopped to pick up Rebecca. And then the rest was open road, including going over a mountain range as well. Mount Messenger, so a lot of wine is there. I filmed there with the Thailand. So not too bad for the first fraction of this road trip. Alright, so today we are going from Aokino, which is North Taranaki where we are now. According to this, 520Ks. I think it's a little bit further because we're going to go north, all the way up to a place called Kirikiri. So it's going to be a big trip for us. We will stop in Auckland on the way, get some lunch, and then get to the sunny, the winterless far north as they call it. So anyway, let's do this and hit the road. Alright, so we just got to Auckland, about half way. And just pull up the stats here. So we've been driving for nearly 4 hours. 282Ks, 5.7L per 100Ks. And literally like 30 seconds ago, that was 5.6. But we had to go around and around trying to find a park, which was a few U-turns and a lot of stop-starting. So it would have been 5.6. Also, so on the last 300Ks, we went through a gorge, a lot of windy New Zealand roads, and then about 100Ks on a motorway and went through a lot of traffic, a lot of stop-starting. So I was using the stop-start feature on the car that was kicking in now and then. So yeah, I mean, if it wasn't traffic, we would have easily been 5.6, maybe even 5.5. So we're just going to get lunch now. Alright, last leg. We've got last leg, I think it's, how far is it, say, 3.5 hours? So now we're going all the way up there. It's got the ECO promo, our little symbol saying, take your foot off the accelerator. So pretty much I'm just trying to follow those guidelines, trying not to accelerate too hard. I mean, I'm still putting my foot down reasonably hard here as I got this hill. And then as you take the foot off, it'll swing into that charge side on the left there, hills, obviously I'll take the foot off and maybe to charge and charge the battery. Also, in the middle of the dash there, sorry if the camera's not the best, you can see the real-time gas usage. So right now it would be at 2, 3, 3.6. As I take my foot off, it would drop down to zero. So using that as a feedback mechanism, I guess helps as well, you know, like just trying not to accelerate too hard. But again, like I'm not trying to go for amazing fuel efficiency. Just cautious or, you know, wary of it. One final thing is using the cruise control. So I will try to use cruise control as much as possible because the computer will keep me in that eco zone. You know, even if I'm going up a bit hill and it sets us at 100 k's, it won't accelerate hard. It will just keep me in that blue zone dropping into the grey zone, like just happened there. So yeah, I'll use cruise control as much as possible as well. At the moment, so we've got about 100 k's, 70 k's to go. And it literally just tipped over from 5.7 average to 5.8. So there's been lots of hills and lots of winding roads and a bit of traffic as well. It's nearly six o'clock on a Friday night here. So still 5.8 average for 475 k's. It's pretty good, average speed is 75. So this hasn't been the best trip. You know, lots of traffic going through the cities and going through Auckland and everything there as well. But on Logan Road, you know, it'll be sitting around 100, 105. But when you're going through these sort of roads where it's quite windy here, you know, what I'm doing, 80, 85. But yeah, so I mean, that gives you a pretty good overview. That's what I'm seeing on the dash. And I like using that. Obviously, when you're in the eco mode, you're getting that feedback through the blue grey zone there and the little visual cues telling you when to take the foot off the accelerator. But then having that real-time number on the dash is, I don't know, it's just another handy feature. And then obviously up on the console, you've got your trip, your trip averages. So that's kind of fun to watch as well to see what's going on. And of course, having all that data there does make you a little bit more aware of your driving habits. If you are trying to save gas, you know, like being told, you know, having that little visual saying take your foot off the accelerator, seeing the averages changing all the time. You know, just, again, it's just feedback and being more aware of it. Otherwise, you might just accelerate a little bit harder and you see the numbers going up. Like, okay, well, buddy's up on that. Yeah, that's everything. So we'll do a final update when we get to our destination in about an hour's time and see what the numbers are. So one other feature of the Eco Pro mode is, sorry for the wobbly filming here, is the extra distance, well, the distance you've saved by driving an Eco Pro mode. So I'm doing this from the passenger seat and it is bumpy. But anyway, the number on that screen was 49k. And that just means that by driving an Eco mode, we have saved an extra 49k since we filled up and we've got about an 80k range left. So not too bad, you know, 50k extra, 600, 200k, I don't know what the tank range is, but yeah, so just another feature in the Eco Pro mode. All right, so after living at 9.30 this morning, it's now 8 o'clock. We've stopped a few times. Seven and a half hours of driving, as you can see, they're 5.8 litres per 100k. Every speed, 73k. There was about seven k's of gravel road, like horrible gravel road. So we've only got about 30k's on that. And the traffic was pretty bad for the last hour or so. We're sitting on 80k's for most of it. So that obviously helped with petrol consumption as well, but couldn't get it back down to the 5.7. There was a lot of winding roads. There was a lot of winding roads there as well at the end. And lots of hills as well. So yeah, I mean, anyway, point of the story is 538k's today, 5.8 average. I can't even remember what it was yesterday. I think it was under six. So what I have to do is I have to crunch some numbers and get a total average of the 600 odd k's. But as you can see, I mean, it was pretty good. And I definitely wasn't driving like a nana. It was overtaking. In fact, a few times I did bump it into sport mode on the highway to pass a few cars. And on the motorway, it's not 110, 115 even. All good and well. So I mean, yeah, amazing, right? Like I tell a few people, we're doing these drives going through gorges over mountain ranges and everything. And we're keeping it under 5 litres per 100k's and they're like, what, really? Plus it was really hot day today. I mean, as you can see with some of the timelashes and stuff, it was, you know, I saw 26, 27 degrees on the dash here a few times. So we had the air con going, even though it was on the eco mode. So pretty impressive. I'll do a quick, I'll crunch the numbers and I'll put together an average for the duration. But hopefully that helps if people are looking at getting these cars or, you know, curious about fuel efficiency on these cars. Hopefully that helps. If you enjoyed it, leave comments, like, questions. Subscribe. This isn't the typical video I do. It's more health and fitness related. But I wanted to put this out there to help the world as people say. So, yeah, there we go. Bye. Hey, so I'm back. I'm now, it is Monday. We drove another 6, 700k's yesterday to get home. So big trip. But I wanted to crunch the numbers now. I didn't track the fuel uses on the way back too much because we stopped in a city. I actually had a party to go to or a friend's party. So I was going around town and stuff like that when grocery shopping. Rebecca drove for a little bit. In fact, I even think I had it in sport mode for a little bit coming back through some of the gorges just a little bit more fun. So I didn't crunch the numbers for that but I know that would have been well above the 6.0. But let's have a look for the trip up and look at the exact numbers we hit in the eco pro mode. So, the first leg we had 90k's at 6.0 litres per 100km. That was up across Mount Missinger and through quite a hilly about half an hour of hills and corners. So that's pretty good considering and then the big leg was 538km at 5.8 litres per 100km. And that was with some city stops. We got a lot of traffic in the highway going through Auckland plus a lot of rural driving. Anyone that's driven the North Island, New Zealand roads knows that it's not like you know, American expressways or even Australian expressways where you're just sitting on 110 and you know, you can go to sleep almost. It's not like that at all. The roads here aren't anything special. So, let's work this out. I have my calculator here. So we're going to go. So it's a total of 538 plus 90 628km 90 divided by 628 14.3% and 85.6% So, yeah. So we have a total of 5.83 litres per 100km over 628km. It's not too bad, huh? So that's overtaking cars that's going through expressways, highways that's going through two gorges over mountain ranges down mountain ranges road works. We were on gravel road for about at least 10km perhaps. Not that you're probably using much fuel there but I mean, it just shows the overview of the journey motorways, single lane stuff. It was all sorts. So, not too bad. Keep that in eco-prod for probably 99% of the time then flick it into sport mode to overtake a few times. And yeah, I guess I was driving cautiously in the sense that I knew we were going to do a lot of case and I was curious to see what the number we could achieve. Yeah, I was driving to see what number we could achieve but I wasn't trying to minimise fuel consumption. I'm sure if I really tried to I could get that down below 5.6 to be honest. That would be not accelerating hard through corners minimal overtaking trying to avoid towns and cities and stuff, which I would do anyway. If you're driving in eco mode and you're not too aggressive on the accelerator and you're driving in BMW one series then you can do some pretty good mileage. So yeah, hopefully that gives you some solid numbers. What else? Yeah, I'm not much of a car guy so I can't explain too much about the car itself but if you wanted to know something more about it just shoot me a question in the comment box below. 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