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After nearly 260,000 km tracked in our fuel log by 33 Micra owners over 650 fill-ups, the manual transmission cars are using 10% less fuel than the automatics.

On the...

Agreed: standardized testing is best.

But I've seen similar manual vs. automatic results replicated many times over in vehicles I've driven and in the fuel logs of owners: it's always easier to do...

Just another data point to add to this thread:

In a review by Guide de l'auto, the fuel consumption of the automatic vs. manual Micra was compared and they saw a similar result:


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True. The numbers were a lot closer in Montreal (5.1 vs 5.5) than in Cornwall (5.1 vs 6.5).

Couple of reasons I can think of:

1) The Montreal comparison had a lot more steady speed highway...

Nope! Never idle to warm up. Your fuel economy will drop even more.

The car warms up fastest under load. Even in the coldest conditions, start, wait ~10 seconds then start driving under...

Yeah, that's a good point!

I managed to squeeze 5.4 L/100 km (52.3 mpg Imp / 43.6 mpg US) from the SR automatic in 2 fill-ups over 940.5 km of mixed driving, but I was usually trying to get the...

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When the Micra was launched back in May, I had the chance to drive both the manual & automatic transmission models on the exact same city/highway route in & around Montreal. Of course, I made...