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The Carsguide Hyundai Santa Fe team have won the Medium SUV category of the 2009 Global Green Challenge. Photo Gallery
Just a short 302km of highway separates us from Adelaide, and Car 6 is determined not to misjudge the timing today.
As we head toward the Eyre Peninsula, the landscape starts to look more inhabited, more rural rather than Outback, and we pass what look like olive groves and orchards.
Being a short run, there’s no stop designated on the highway, but there’s plenty of stopping and starting once the cars get inside the Adelaide city area. The urban circuit on Friday morning takes us in a couple of loops through the city, out past one of the famed Penfolds wineries, and criss-crossing back on ourselves through the city and into Victoria Square in Adelaide’s heart.
Final calculations are done, and in Car 6 we’ve managed 5.4L/100km and 20 per cent improvement overall. But we still finished behind Car 5, which had a final result of 5.1L/100km and improvement of 24 per cent – enough for it to win the Medium SUV category of the Eco Challenge.
