1.6 Pure Tech 180 Eat 8 performance
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:29 pm
Hello all
Not a 3008 owner - yet. It is down to this and one other.
I had a 1.2 Pure Tech for a month - enjoyed it, found the i-cook interesting (so weird I'm writing i-cook I even see it here in preview but when I post it on a forum for 3008 it is censored to i-cook !!!). Like everyone think the climate control is a drag...but definitely the sexiest SUV for the price point.
Approx 70% of my annual mileage is on European M-ways. I found the 1.2 ultimately underpowered for here, 130km/h on an incline with luggage and passengers just nothing left, speed fell off.
Been trying to get a test drive in a 1.6 which is proving frustrating.. (London dealers...but perhaps another time for that ! Are they super busy ??). Although even when I hopefully do get a go, replicating such conditions will of course not be possible on the A/M4 - lol !
Anyone out there have any info/experiences might be useful ? All the road tests I can find online seem to be about the old THP, and more often than not that the performance isn't markedly different. Certainly the headline figures are not hugely more. Performance sites such as automobile-catalog again nothing on this (new?) engine. Even Wiki doesn't seem to have it listed only the 3 cyl 1.0 and 1.2 under Puretech (EB).
Anyone using this in Europe ? Is there anything left at 130 ? In Italy particularly useful. Anyone using it anywhere who might have some info to share? Any sites with some in gear performance figures even - now that would be really helpful.
The other possibility is a Tiguan 2.0 Tsi which seems to have just enough with 190ps, this has a quite significantly larger nm tho, but also significantly heavier ...would be so good to have a way of some kind of comparison. Maybe someone even knows a good site for this?
Any thoughts or tips greatly appreciated. I'm minded to go with the Peugeot (GT-Line with Grip control) but don't want to be disapointed when I get it over there - it would be a private cash purchase so not looking to change it ijn a couple of years either in case.
Oh and I live right in the centre of London where another 20% of my miles take place so diesel not an option and not what I'd want anyway...
Thanks in advance
Not a 3008 owner - yet. It is down to this and one other.
I had a 1.2 Pure Tech for a month - enjoyed it, found the i-cook interesting (so weird I'm writing i-cook I even see it here in preview but when I post it on a forum for 3008 it is censored to i-cook !!!). Like everyone think the climate control is a drag...but definitely the sexiest SUV for the price point.
Approx 70% of my annual mileage is on European M-ways. I found the 1.2 ultimately underpowered for here, 130km/h on an incline with luggage and passengers just nothing left, speed fell off.
Been trying to get a test drive in a 1.6 which is proving frustrating.. (London dealers...but perhaps another time for that ! Are they super busy ??). Although even when I hopefully do get a go, replicating such conditions will of course not be possible on the A/M4 - lol !
Anyone out there have any info/experiences might be useful ? All the road tests I can find online seem to be about the old THP, and more often than not that the performance isn't markedly different. Certainly the headline figures are not hugely more. Performance sites such as automobile-catalog again nothing on this (new?) engine. Even Wiki doesn't seem to have it listed only the 3 cyl 1.0 and 1.2 under Puretech (EB).
Anyone using this in Europe ? Is there anything left at 130 ? In Italy particularly useful. Anyone using it anywhere who might have some info to share? Any sites with some in gear performance figures even - now that would be really helpful.
The other possibility is a Tiguan 2.0 Tsi which seems to have just enough with 190ps, this has a quite significantly larger nm tho, but also significantly heavier ...would be so good to have a way of some kind of comparison. Maybe someone even knows a good site for this?
Any thoughts or tips greatly appreciated. I'm minded to go with the Peugeot (GT-Line with Grip control) but don't want to be disapointed when I get it over there - it would be a private cash purchase so not looking to change it ijn a couple of years either in case.
Oh and I live right in the centre of London where another 20% of my miles take place so diesel not an option and not what I'd want anyway...
Thanks in advance