Ever wondered how much extra petrol is being consumed by that crap in the back of your car? I did, and decided to write in to the manufacturer of my trusty 1.5L LX Corolla to find out.
Q: What is the incremental petrol consumption in litres for a 1.5L Toyota Corolla carrying an additional 1kg of weight over a distance of 100km? i.e. approximately how much additional petrol consumption would this 1kg of weight cause over a distance of 100km? (I suppose for ease of calculation we can assume the vehicle travels at a steady speed of 80km/hour)
The answer I received from a Mr Q. Holmes from "Toyota Customer Experience" quite simply said:
"We apologize; our office is not set up to respond to your inquiry."
Oh well - I wasn't really expecting a reply. As if Toyota doesn't have better things to do with their time.
Don't suppose any brains out there know the answer to this question, or at least an intelligent way to hazard a guess?
Btw - one (unrelated) thing that did interest me was that when I hit http://www.toyota.com/ to find an email address to write in to, the website that popped up appeared to be the US Toyota website. What a cop out. Isn't Toyota Japanese?
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