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When there's a carbon police, I want to be chief inspector. Then there'll be a big scandal when they find out how much air travel I am responsible for 🙁
51 out of my Passat TDI 130, but in the winter on a long slow drive drafting lorries on the motorway I got 62. Well chuffed, but haven't been able to repeat it. 🙂
I run a 130 diesel mondeo too and get 50mpg give or take a bit
fortunately the closest petrol staion is also the cheapest in the area and a shell one at that
wife's 'family car' cmax eco whatever petrol 1.8 does 30mpg on average
my mk5 golf gti does 30mpg on average.....
similar journeys....
wtf ?????
i just put petrol in my car when it runs low i have no idea what mpg i get and to be honest i dont care tho i only really use it to go biking
does this make me a bad person
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T ]Ford Model T[/url] got up to 21mpg... hasn't been much in the way of progress has there 😆
Best I've had recently from my 110ps Octavia 1.9 TDi on a motorway run from North Wilts to South Mimms, around 122 miles, was 63.8, according to the dash computer. Just filled up, and my last tankfull gave me 501 miles. My lamented Puma, on the other hand used to deliver 330/tank, or 270 with the Thule roofbars on. Love diesels.
I hope Brant wasn't joking.
Solo.
Mind you, you have a Landy (albeit a Disco), so you get some karma back.
Nowt wrong with Discovery still made by the Green Gods of LANDROVER , N WON'T PART WITH MY V8 FOR NO ONE,RUNS ON LPG TOO ,SO ECO WARRIORS CAN SNIFF ME EXHAUST ANY TIME.!!!!!!!!
Driving style does have a lot to do with it. Twenty years ago when i was doing 50k miles/pa, my boss actually called me in to his office just to ask me how i was averaging 43mpg in the Petrol 1.9L Peugeot 405 they'd given me. I used to drive at 80mph plus on motorways ans fastish on rural A roads (60 plus). The difference between me and others is i drive smooth! Jerking gears, foot down at all times and stamping on brakes kills your fuel economy, brakes, tyres and your health.
It never ceases to amaze me how slow drivers can waste so much fuel. Their non-fluid driving style creates conjestion and generally screws up my drive. For this reason i always opt to drive when the roads are at their clearest these days.
My 2001 1.9L 130bhp Audi A6 is supposed to achieve 65mpg on a run. It can easily achieve this so long as you drive smooth. Speed doesn't seem to make a massive diiference.
The trip computer is lame. Sometimes i can get it showing in excess of 80 mpg when driving sedately, but the figures is always seem to calculate around 62~63mpg (approx. 70% long runs 30% short semi rural runs).
Can't imagine any other large estate bettering that!
Yachts are my ideal mode of transport however;
MPG = Zero
Number of people impeding your progress = zero
Numbers of speed cameras = zero
Agressive idiots = zero
Alcohol limit = unlimited
Officious rule enforcers in open waters = zero
im doing 24000 miles a year at the moment.
had to sell my passat as it was only doing an average of 32mpg (onboard computer saying 39mpg??)
got a diesel cmax now and its getting between 48mpg(nailing it) and 62 mpg sitting at 55-60 mph!!
Current overall average on my 130 tdi Passat is 48.3, consisting of mainly short (14 mile) runs to work. 173K on the clock.
My next car WILL be a Passat.
Kin'ell
😯
I do bucket loads of miles and get 32mpg according to both the computer and the measuring and calculating method. Not good 🙁 I also seem to be eating tyres at the moment too... had the car 18 months and am about to get my second set of rears (the fronts got changed at the same time when the car was 9 months old, mainly as I didn't like them, but I think I will get another 9 months before they need changed).
Even my old 220bhp Saab didn't eat tyres like this 120bhp Suzuki Vitara!
I will be running out of warranty soon, so hopefully will be allowed to change it in another 18 months! So long as the company accounts are looking healthy! Not sure what to go for though - I use the 4x4 bits and bobs and like the additional ground clearance for farm tracks and fields. Just can't reconcile myself with the environmental disaster zone that the vehicle is! Perhaps I should get a second hand, private, estate car or something. Alternative is the Hybrid Pug 3007 that is being talked about for launch in around the right time frame (and with 68mpg that would be very, very tempting indeed!)
a rather aggrevated, quick paced to parked on the m25 charge from mid wales to essex this weekend and back for a wedding function earned 52.5mpg out the mondeo for some pretty unsmooth grumpy driving
still enough fuel in the tank for driving to work all week 🙂