Hey mate,
I recently just bought a MY01 Liberty RX manual and couldn't be happier! They're an awesome car. Fuel consumption is around 10L/100km or less driven lightly. 12L/100km driven quick, n about 15L/100km if you drive it hard.
Mine's got extractors, powerchip n exhaust, and the powerchip makes a huge difference in terms of torque.
They're an awesome car, well kitted out, and drive and grip fantastically!
Lewis
MY01 Liberty RX manual

15L per 100klms? That's a lot!

I had a 1999 Liberty RX manual and it use to have a PowerChip with close to 400,000klms (before I did a TT conversion) and it use to consume about 12L per 100klms - giving it a real hard time everywhere. Mind you, I'm absolutely religious about keeping fuel consumption records...

Driving in city would consume about 10-11L per 100klms (there's bugger all difference in small capacity NAs when you do or don't flog it), whilst highway cycle returned about 8L per 100klms.

This is in comparison to my current car (MY04 GT Auto) which does 11-12L in city and flogging it will return a pretty poor consumption of about 15L!

Anyhow, good luck with finding one Dan... the Gen3 shape with the 2.5 will set you back 14-20K depending on year and kilometres. They're a great car and wouldn't recommend any other car out there!