2005 Hyundai Getz from Philippines - Comments

I have had a 1.1 GSi Getz for 11 months now (03/07/09) and I must say the FE is not the best. I was getting 38mpg to 40mpg (13km/L - 14km/L) around Cornwall UK, which is very hilly, this is when I got the car. Then I read up on ECU's and heard that the Getz ECU has a learned function. I used to find the 1.1 engine struggle to keep up when I wanted to take it for a rag around, it took about 5 minutes of driving hard for the engine to start to perform, after that time it was better. Now I change gear at 2k-2.2k and have found the engine to seem to learn that I will do this, it seems to now be better at the lower rev range and is returning much better FE, around 44mpg (15.5km/L) in hilly Cornwall.

I took the rear seats out last time I filled the tank up to use the car as a van. the rear seats are heavy! really heavy! That tank just returned 47.2 mpg (16.7km/L) still in hilly Cornwall.

I have just driven the car 350 miles fully loaded I would say 450 kgs with me in it. On A roads and motorway speeds (65mph - 70mph) and the car returned 45mpg.

So overall I think the 1.1L engine Getz needs to be worked harder then most small cars as:

Getz is heavy.

Engine is only 66bhp.

Gearing is poorly matched to engine power.

I would suggest to rev to 2K - 2.5K in day to day driving.

Rev to 3K up hills and change down at 2.7K on day to day driving.

On motorways and A roads/dual carriage, rev to 2.5K and change down at 3.2K whilst tackling big hills.

Overall the Getz is a good car; there are better cars out there, but the Getz is cheap for what you get, and I am happy overall.