Fuel Economy of cars can be measured in many forms for c02 per km to miles per gallon but in today’s climate it all comes down to cost. The UK government has launched a new service for you to browse the full car market to see on a number of different measurements the most Eco and wallet friendly cars available from your local showroom.

So if you take the cost of the fuel and averaged it out over your first 12,000 miles – how much in fuel has it cost to run the car?

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Super Mini Automatic Car Hire – it is hard to say but you can rent them here!
Ten years ago you would be looking at a compact sized car to get an automatic gearbox. Anything smaller would be underpowered for an automatic gearbox, so what has changed?

Back then the only automatic gearbox available for smaller cars would be a three speed. Couple this to the average power of 65 BHP and you have a pretty awful driving experience. Now with improved tuning and performance from smaller engines you can expect around 100 BHP coupled to a automatic gearbox with at least several more gears than the tri-gear boxes of a decade ago.

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Example Cars
Although example cars are given by our suppliers you could get a similar vehicle in the same category. The vehicle classification is made along passenger and luggage capacity which is very close along the range. You can appreciate that a supplier fleet although biased towards a single manufacturer will always have a wide range of manufacturers and models.

As a cost comparison engine we are tied to what our partners pass us through the XML feed we request and receive car hire searches. We are though adding further example cars in the car hire fleet along the following lines base on over 10 years in the car hire industry.
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Car Hire Engine sizes and examples
For Unleaded hire cars – Diesel rental cars will of course have higher sized engines in each class.

Car Hire 1.1 Engine

Budget sized car – Engine sizes of 900cc to 1.1 litre

Example car – Chevrolet Matiz

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It is Cheaper than you thought to upgrade to an automatic with Automatic Car Hire.

We only search guaranteed automatic vehicles on this site but we checked the cost of the lowest priced manual economy against it compariable automatic in four top destinations.

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