Monaro - What mpg are people getting?

[Tattooboy]

With a little bit of playing here and a little bit of playing there followed by a little bit of posing I seem to average between 20-23 with maybe 25-26 on a run.

[Drew SS]

well unfortuately my foot has a mind of its own and at a guess its about 18 mpg in Australian terms i get about 300 klms out of a tank........

[Trampy]

13.8 over the last 800 miles - all been country lanes with the exception of MPH last weekend which was a 180 mile round trip. Never get into the 20's unless on a motorway jaunt - but rarely go on motorway jaunts

[baptist]

About 18 mpg, mixed driving in my 500. How anyone can get 25 on average in this car is beyond me!

[ChapppeRS]

C8PPO said:

I haven't read the whole thread, so apologies if I'm repeating, but.....

FFS, if you have even the remotest qualoms about MPG, then why are you even vaguely considering a 6.0 V8-powered car? If MPG is an issue for you, then this is CATEGORICALLY the wrong car for you.

I've seen this time and time again - where do people get off thinking they can buy a performance car with a big petrol engine and get Prius mileage out of it?

MPG? Go find yourself a nice diesel Fabia which you can afford to run.

I don't think anyone in the thread really cares... I only wanted to know if it was much different to my RS.. because I can afford to run that now, but if it was 9 or something, i'd be thinking twice about looking for a 'Ro.

Also... it's good for a point of reference for what you should be getting, in case yours suddenly started using a lot more, because then you'd know there was something wrong!

[kjmac]

^^^ WHS

If the ro did 1mpg I doubt many people would be on this forum, so yes. Fuel usage is relevant, even with a massive V8. Why buy one if you're never going to be able to use it? Mine gets a hiding every day.

Edited by kjmac on Sunday 22 November 11:41

[leaf blower]

Even with all the fun on the motorway going to the Surrey RR yesterday, was a bit of a slower drive back cos of traffic and heavy rain, my average on the gauge was reading 23 mpg when I got home.

Edited by leaf blower on Sunday 22 November 12:54

[alfienoakes]

007 VXR said:

alfienoakes said:

And No, i'm not proud of it

Edited by alfienoakes on Tuesday 6th October 17:31

got to ask ...how did you do that ????? down hill for 100 miles ?? or were you being towed

That was from driving 280 miles from Lancashire to Kent to be confronted by a particulary pi$$ed off ex-girlfriend So no, I wasn't in any hurry

[007 VXR]

alfienoakes said:

007 VXR said:

alfienoakes said:

And No, i'm not proud of it

Edited by alfienoakes on Tuesday 6th October 17:31

got to ask ...how did you do that ????? down hill for 100 miles ?? or were you being towed

That was from driving 280 miles from Lancashire to Kent to be confronted by a particulary pi$$ed off ex-girlfriend So no, I wasn't in any hurry

so what was your mpg on the way back

[vxr2010]

An old post I know , I did notice on the Monaro the in car mpg figures are well off what the car does , mine shower mid 29 mpg on a long trip , real mpg full tank to full tank was 34 mpg , motorway speed of 70 mph , which does mean 70 as most cars read off by 3 or 4 miles an hour , and cruise control on , I was surprised it did so well , it was a 400 mile trip to Scotland , and it was a very comfortable drive , the figure was with a 3.9 diff and a number of tuning mods , which I thought would effect the mpg a lot more , sorry to drop the tone when I taken about fuel economy and a v8

[topless360]

I'm averaging 25.6 over the couple of months I've owned the car, that has been a real mix of driving. I don't think there is much of a difference between a cruise at say 70 compared with 80.

Interestingly my speedo is actually accurate within 1mph.

[bigwheel]

topless360 said:

Interestingly my speedo is actually accurate within 1mph.

[P3krm]

I get 26 on motorway but my avarage is 15

[Behold81]

P3krm said:

I get 26 on motorway but my avarage is 15

Bout right. Normal round town I get 16-18

Long journey 27-28.

[Behold81]

bigwheel said:

VTs were corrected with a speedo healer (still need to remove mine) so they will have set it to be accurate. Mine is the same.

[vxr2010]

I'm pretty sure the vxr8 and Monaro speedos are spot on and don't have any offset which is normally 3 to 4 mph under the actual speed

[SturdyHSV]

Would agree that my Monaro speedo seems spot on, at least compared to sat nav and our radar equipment.

Stop / start I'd say ~ 18, 'on a run' ~27.

Average was normally around 24-25, but currently ~ 22 as I drive it on fewer long distance trips.

Le Mans round trip including lots of queueing, burnouts and avoid tolls route was normally averaging around 25.

[topless360]

It's surprising how economical these cars are. My S2000 used to average around 30mpg, so to be getting just 5 below that is impressive considering the engine is 3 times the size.

It's when doing constant stop start traffic that it's a different story, but on a run at least these are reasonable on fuel.