The 800cc petrol engine powered car achieves this unrealistic figure through an impractical, yet doable mileage run.
Maruti Suzuki recently organized a mileage-run called the Alto Xplore Max Mileage Rally for owners of the Alto / Alto K10. The run was flagged off simultaneously in four cities viz. New Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Jaipur and attracted over 300 participants. The winner of this mileage run was a certain Mr Dilip Das from Kolkata, who extracted a fuel economy of 49.3 kmpl from his Maruti Suzuki Alto. Next on the chart were Mr Mehdi Hassan and Mr P Sai Sumanth from Hyderabad who claimed a fuel economy of 48.2 kmpl and 47.6 kmpl respectively.
Congratulating the winners Mr Shashank Srivastava, Chief General Manager (Marketing), Maruti Suzuki India Limited, said, “Maruti Suzuki has been pioneer in understanding the customer’s requirement of a highly fuel efficient cars. Specifically in the current scenario of ever-escalating fuel prices, the fuel efficiency of a car becomes most critical factor for customers. Alto has always delivered very high mileage to customers and that is the most important factor behind Alto’s success as India. Such rallies not only educate the customers about ways to enhance fuel economies of their cars, but also give them an opportunity to discover the high mileage that cars from the Maruti stable deliver.”
Hardcore mileage runs can be painful and in turn, impractical in everyday use – after all, how can you expect to crawl around under 2,000 RPM, at painfully low speeds, with the air-conditioning turned off? What the mileage runs do teach you though, is how you can extract the maximum fuel economy out of your car if you keep it in the right rev range and use the creature comforts only when you really need them.
