Worst MPG Vehicle you have driven?

[d3hno]

Just wondering, after watching the fuel drain infront of my very eyes in several vehicles I have owned, sometimes seeing single figure MPG, I am interested to know what the lowest MPG you guy have witnessed whilst driving a thirsty vehicle?

[konamonkey]

Theres no fuel counter in my RX8. Probably for a reason

[LuS1fer]

The instant readout on the 1985 Corvette could get down to 1 or 3mpg but overall, I'd have to say it wasn't bad. I used to think it was until I realised the display was in smaller US mpg, a mistake propagated by journalists in my experience.

[crofty1984]

D10 bulldozer. Not sure of the exact MPG figure, but it had a 60 litre engine IIRC

[sleep envy]

92l of fuel in 120 miles of mountian roads in a 993 RS

was a good afternoon

[d3hno]

sleep envy said:

92l of fuel in 120 miles of mountian roads in a 993 RS

was a good afternoon

haha, bloody hell, sounds awesome though!

[RobM77]

My racing Metro did about 4mpg if I remember rightly!

[The Wookie]

On the road, 12.5 mpg average on a long motorway run, and 7.5 mpg on a city run in a Merc G55K AMG, ETA and that was on the trip computer which has more positive spin than Tony Blair's PR department

On the track, I managed to get through a full 55 litre tank in my Evo in about 80 miles. And to think Clarkson whinged about the Tesla.

Edited by The Wookie on Thursday 19th November 15:28

[frank hovis]

Normally about 15.6 in the rs6 whilst pottering about then when getting heavy with the boot it goes down to about 8mpg

Just as well there is a shell station a half mile form my house

[markmullen]

My old RX7, averaged 9mpg, 11-13 if trying really hard to be good, 6mpg if thraping on.

[Graham]

The tuscan racer does about a litre a minute on full chat !!!

I managed to get my old 3.9 efi rangey down to very low single figures on a cross country thrash, but i also set fire to the front pads !!!

[ForzaGilles]

12.4mpg in my Toyota Avensis 1.8 whilst lapping The'Ring

[AndrewW-G]

3-4mpg in a Ferrari 400 whilst negotiating the hell hole that is London

[Negative Creep]

12mpg in my Volvo - during normal round town driving

[The Wookie]

Actually, the OP said vehicle, not car

I've driven our boat from Antibes to Monaco and back and used half a tank. That's about 400 litres in 50 miles or 1.8 gallons per mile.

Two massive yank petrol V8's with knackered rings and dodgy injectors. It has two brand new engines now, I reckon it uses half as much fuel as it used too... probably hits the heady heights of 1mpg now.

[B'stard Child]

This frankly shocking



Handles like a pig tripping on acid riding on a skateboard

Obviously the track day Monza is worse on track 180 miles 108L of juice but at least that was fun - that "RV" hasn't bettered 9.5 Mpg (US Gall) and I'm driving it like a judge!!!

[tvrolet]

The humble tvrolet, when driven hard returns a heady 1 mile per litre. I've never had the courage to convert that to mpg.

[Ranger 6]

I remember when navigating for a friend in off road events his V8 Land Rover used to get down to gallons per mile.....

[marlinmunro]

BMW one series 1.6 petrol, greedy little b*gger

[d3hno]

The Wookie said:

Actually, the OP said vehicle, not car

I've driven our boat from Antibes to Monaco and back and used half a tank. That's about 400 litres in 50 miles or 1.8 gallons per mile.

Two massive yank petrol V8's with knackered rings and dodgy injectors. It has two brand new engines now, I reckon it uses half as much fuel as it used too... probably hits the heady heights of 1mpg now.

I actually looked at buying a small boat, the fuel consumption was frightening!