If you have a fuel economy spreadsheet may I suggest any savings it makes you are used to buy a life!
You'd have thought that would have been the end of the thread wouldn't you 😐
I get excited when I see 45 mpg in my focus 1.6 TDI that's supposed to do 70.
Then I remember that i've had to do 40mph for 3 hours to get it to 45, and normal service of 70mph @ 35mpg resumes!
Is having an app for it less sad than a spreadsheet? 😳
craigxxl - MemberMondeo 2.2 diesel 60mpg, had 59.7 but never broken the magic number yet. The previous Mondeo 2.0 diesel would manage 66mpg when careful.
I got 59.9 on the drive from edinburgh to fort william, was not amused... Did the last stretch down from spean bridge in total economy mode but it just dropped the last point going through town to get to the hotel. Damn you fort william! Finally cracked 60 to innerleithen and back last weekend, in the pissing rain which kept the speed down, nicely lubricated roads 😉
I could never get our 130i above 27mpg regardless of how I drove it...... It did spend the first couple of weeks of ownership happily screaming around at about 12-14mpg though 😳
The 535d touring that replaced it is actually worse I think....... The mrs drives it during the week and it's all stop start town stuff. I had a look as I got in it and it's been averaging 24.3 mpg 🙄
I fill up with fuel, I drive, I fill up when empty....... Beyond that I'm really not interested if I'm honest
Average is 49mpg with a 64 on a 150 mile trip to Gloucester one afternoon on my IS300h, turns out its at its best on rolling twisty A roads.
Aye, 'mercan gallons I guess. The truck gave a readout, the car I calculated. So, yeah, probably better if converted to UK gallons.
So truck ~20mpg, car ~40.
Just driven down south and back over the weekend. Average of 55mpg for 340 miles in a 2.0 Tdi A4. Kept it around 75mph on the motorway.
Quite happy with that.
My MiTo 1.4 155hp version is currently averaging a shade over 41mpg and that's in dynamic mode all the time.
Driving like Miss Daisy:
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Not bad for a 3litre twin turbo with an autobox.
(more generally found down around 35mpg though to be fair, although it seems to eat rear tyres faster than it burns fuel (must stop turning that DSC button off....... 😉
It would be more impressive to add road miles cycled to your mpg and end up with total miles travelled and amount of fuel used..
Friend Wood's Tryane II got something like 140mpg in an fuel economy test.
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Are we talking what the dash board says or calculated by fill ups etc?
If on the dash my 320d averages about 55 in stop start commuting. 60 mpg at 80mph long motorway journeys and drive it carefully over 70mpg. Driver it like an idiot and I still cant get it less than 40mpg.
Generally I get about 600 miles for £65 of fuel.
My old 2.0 VAG diesel did 520 miles on £80 of fuel!
The old 2.2 D-CAT Avensis was terrible considering it was a diesel. Usual figure was around 32mpg but would hover around 39mpg on a motorway journey. Very rarely saw a 4 as the first digit on the readout. It did have a lot of torque though so was fun sometimes.
New Berlingo reckons it's been doing 48-49mpg but I've worked it out at closer to 46. Still haven't managed to get it to 50 over the full tank yet. Only slightly more boring than the Avensis, more of a challenge to drive quickly.
Some of you lot sound like those grimacing morons you see all the time trying to conserve fuel by driving on the motorway in the inside lane at 55mph, getting overtaken by the trucks and generally impeding the flow of traffic and royally pi**ing of those of us who actually need to get somewhere in the process.
I (almost) always drive at the speed limit. 60mpg is the number I like to see in either the Prius or the Passat. Often exceeded in the summer in the Prius, usually exceeded in the Passat on motorways. 65mpg is the best on a long motorway run in that car.
The wee car averaged only 34mpg...God Bless America.
For the Japanese car? It was probably auto, and remember US petrol is lower octane usually, and their cars are often configured to produce as little NOx as possible due to their terrible smog problems in hot climates. Also remember that whilst our speedos are configured to read 10% under, theirs aren't so take that into account when comparing - an indicated 75mph on a US highway is more like what would be shown as 83mph here.
Given all that, a typical 35mpg or so from their smaller cars is actually pretty good.
I'm pretty happy with a long run giving me about 24mpg in our Disco 3 V8, it can go down to about 15mpg on shorter run use though. The counter argument for such figures is that it doesn't really get driven 5 days of the week.....
I replied "21mpg, a smile, and I get laid".
Cool story, the honeys must be throwing themselves at you macho man car. At what mpg do you stop getting laid.
I get between 44-47mpg from a petrol 1.4 Octavia. In general use or motorway at 70-75mph. I don't do any driving in heavy stop/start traffic.
My Holy Grail was 53mpg on a long A road Glasgow to Skye and back. So mainly 45-60mph.
Good for a large petrol car. Astounding compared to my previous 1.8 Mondeo petrol. Averaged 33-35mpg and best 37/38 on long trips.
On my annual mileage of around 11k that's £500 a year less fuel (and £120 less road tax).
Used to leave the work Outlander parked up displaying 90mpg when we had an I've-got-nothing-better-to-do-than-criticise-your-fuel-economy gaffer. Cheated to get it, obviously, but he never worked out how!
[i]Some of you lot sound like those grimacing morons you see all the time trying to conserve fuel by driving on the motorway in the inside lane at 55mph, getting overtaken by the trucks and generally impeding the flow of traffic and royally pi**ing of those of us who actually need to get somewhere in the process.[/i]
+1
But tbh my Vectra diesel auto can easily average +50mpg on a long trip, such as Sunday where I did 400 miles on fast A roads and motorways keeping above the speed limit.
Hasn't got the overtaking abilities of previous V6's and V8's though - but half the fuel used.
my t4 (88bhp) only manages 35/37 ish (calculated) but nearly did 40mpg on the way to the alps.
Dibbs - what is the tank range on the 690? i have a bent one in the workshop which i bought for the engine, if you need any little bits of bodywork and so on. quite a lot of the front end is broken! quite fancy an enduro myself
My Wife's T5 estate auto does 22mpg and over 25 on a run
Has anyone else tried a fasted drive? I reckon my mpg goes up by around 3 to 4 in those conditions. Not sure I understand why. Mechanical empathy maybe?
my VW polo GT bluemotion managed 60.9mpg this morning on the commute in, i regularly see high 50's but this morning was particularly note worthy! not at all bad for a 1.4 turbo petrol that will do 0 - 60 in about 8 secs.
andytherocketeer - miles per unit of volume that has not been sold at the pumps since the 1980's... is a rubbish measurement
One of the best strokes the euro-hating Tories ever peulled was the metrification of fuel sales, used to put 2p on a gallon at the budget when I was a kid, now they can put it on a litre. KERCHING!!
But keep your hands off my pint Johnny foreigner!!
After 8 months of commuting, I finally managed to resist the urge to go quick this morning and got 61.8mpg out of my 2.0TDI A3 Sportback Quattro. I usually get 53mpg on the same commute so I need a spreadsheet to show me how much I'll save per year on my 28 mile each way commute....
my '51 Golf tdi managed an "on dash" 80.5 mpg average monday - not
too shabby given it's also covered 234k !!!
sex, with the wife .... errr what's that ??? 😀
We have a few, read as too many, here are the Sad figures:
Passat can do 52 plus on long journeys but lairing about locally 42, strange I know but its a quick (modded) Passat.
Beamer, rapid oil burner, can do 54 on a run but I usually give up and it tumbles down, mid 30s ish, another quickish car.
Ancient Vito always high 30s can do 40.
Polo, quite a lot of mods, 40 cruise, 25 or less pressing on.
Rav 4, amazingly low to mid 30s.
70s Beamer bike struggles to go over 35 what ever I do.
60s Brit bike, 50s plus
Honda 90, 100 plus
Little 250 race bike on a full chat trace we reckon it's doing 12mpg!
We did have a diesel Clio that regularly got into the 70s and if you tried hard into the 80s but the garage costs made it one of the most expensive cars we have owned.
After 8 months of commuting, I finally managed to resist the urge to go quick this morning and got 61.8mpg out of my 2.0TDI A3 Sportback Quattro. I usually get 53mpg on the same commute so I need a spreadsheet to show me how much I'll save per year on my 28 mile each way commute....
OK, here goes 😀
Assuming a 46 week year that would give you 12,880 miles per year.
Current average price per gallon of diesel is £6.11, you would save £211.43 per year at the 61.8mpg value..
Have achieved 60mpg out of my 13 year old Passat 1.9 TDi estate 2 or 3 times without resorting to driving like Miss Daisy is in the back. It has averaged just over 50mpg since I've had it (only about 2000 miles so far), but that's a damned sight better than last time I had a 1.9TDi Passat, that car only ever managed 42mpg at best!
Had an E90 Beemer 320d for a company car a few years ago, occasionally got 65+mpg on motorway journeys in that.
Most impressed with 32mpg over a 60 mile trip (at a steady 70 on the motorway) from my old E34 540i Touring. I used to have to drive quite frugally most of the time owning that thing as round town it would do about 17mpg, and overall about 23-24mpg if I was careful... So 32 on a run of thought was awesome!
Just to show the importance of a torque rich engine, steady speeds and tall gearing on fuel economy... My Dad has a 55 plate Merc E280 CDI (3 litre V6 turbo seeing as there's some on this thread comparing them) with the 7spd Autobox. He's had it remapped and in general driving he normally sees about 37-38mpg average, which is ok considering it's size IMO. Last summer I went down to Devon in it with him to pick up a Caravan (don't ask), a 180 mile journey each way. On the way down, a steady cruise at speeds above the speed limit (but no more than the surrounding traffic so a steady 75-80mph) it averaged 55mpg! It even did about 35mpg on the return journey towing 1.5 tonnes of fibreglass!
Just starting to wear the car in 80mpg not bad at rush hour start/stop traffic, up to 70mph, crawling etc. Harrogate to York. All in a car that does 0-60 in 8 seconds and 140 mph
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Was seriously impressed to get almost 44mpg out of an M135i on a trip to London recently. Not bad for car with 320bhp.
Fuel is getting cheaper too. Unleaded is £1.25 near us now
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