First generation Cooper S real world fuel consumption

[CTO]

05 MCS WITH Dave F airbox.

Average about 24 I guess, mainly urban driving.

Lowest I have seen on the OBC is 7

[Wozy68]

CTO said:

05 MCS WITH Dave F airbox.

Average about 24 I guess, mainly urban driving.

Lowest I have seen on the OBC is 7

Blimey you must have been going some. I absolutly and uterly ragged a new GP around the Pyrenees years back and the average dropped to 16MPG and I was shocked at that on a modern car.
When I say ragged it, I mean new gear linkage, new clutch, new brakes and a broken seat had to be replaced when I got back to Blighty.

My dear old 911 averaged 19MPG on my last trip .... So much for progress

[CTO]

Sorry Wozy, just read that back and twas a bit misleading. The lowest MPG I've seen was 7mpg on the OBC, that wasn't average though.

I think I once had around 18 MPG average though after I first got it.

To be honest the fuel economy given the size of the car is absolutely appalling

[eatcustard]

I would get between 23 and 32 MPG
23 around town and 32 on a steady motorway run
27mpg average with mixed driving

[martyn850]

For what it's worth, this is what I was getting from my facelifted R53, with DaveF airbox and Milltek cat back.

[mneame]

Just to update mine, had a week away last week driving around with the wife and kids. A real mix of driving with a roofbox on and I averaged 33mpg.

[RB Will]

SWMBO has a 2003 Cooper S. Her 4 mile commute through town nets her 27mpg. If I go out for a drive in it it's usually around 34-36mpg. We took it on a 400mile trip to Snowdon and back last weekend. 80mph on motorway and not hanging around in a/b roads overtaking etc and one evening "enjoying" the local roads flat out and it averaged 41mpg for the trip carrying 2 people an luggage.

[Nero601]

Picked up my 2003 Cooper S a few days ago , first trip to Dorset/Devon was mostly M5 with some A and B roads thrown in , OBC showed 39.2 which was ok I thought , we will see how it fairs with 'normal' driving .

[ftypical]

My old R53 JCW averaged just under 29mpg.

Not driven in urban areas or motorways much.

[tristan73]

My Vauxhall Diesel is £62 a month to fill, 450 miles distance
Mini R53 Cooper S 2003 is £52 a fortnight to fill, 240 miles distance

Crap 2004 Vauxhall diesel (says 65, does 50 mpg) £0.13 pence per mile. £138 for 1,000 miles. £1104 a year in diesel.

Mini Cooper S (says 40, does 20 mpg) £0.21 pence per mile. £216 1,000 for miles. 8,000 miles a year. £1733.33 a year in petrol.

£730 a year, £2 a day more to drive the Cooper from your average diesel. Newer super 85mpg diesels obviously no chance of comparing but they are £26k plus.

I'll be honest the fuel economy is shocking and distance of 240 miles is pants. This is a weekend and local shopping car at best, if you need it for work I'd forget it.

If you want any chance of economy in a min you need the 1.6 diesel.

Car I have owned recently, ALL VASTLY better on MPG than the mini:

2.3 Litre Honda Prelude
2.0 Litre VTEC Honda Accord
1.8 (160 bhp) MGF Trophy

They were all much faster, smoother, reliable and economical than the mini but they ain't a mini lol.

[jackh707]

Just averaged 39 mpg across 400 miles in Ireland. Mix of Irish motorways cruising at 68mph and twisty A roads driving smoothly and quickly just rolling on in 4th/5th/6th, and a few harder pulls through the lower gears. The lack of traffic and stopping/starting seems to imporve the MINIs economy massively.