Fuel costs and mpg
Discussion
As the title states I would like to hear the following from my fellow PH posters.
When your car is near empty how much does it cost to fill it?
What is the mpg of your car stated by the manufacture and does it come close?
Kicking off my daily is a Suzuki Swift 1.2 Attitude. Yes it has no attitude.
To fill the car it cost £42.00.
The MPG is actually pretty spot on.
Suzuki state 56.5 mpg and I am getting 52.2 MPG.
When your car is near empty how much does it cost to fill it?
What is the mpg of your car stated by the manufacture and does it come close?
Kicking off my daily is a Suzuki Swift 1.2 Attitude. Yes it has no attitude.
To fill the car it cost £42.00.
The MPG is actually pretty spot on.
Suzuki state 56.5 mpg and I am getting 52.2 MPG.
Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 31st August 22:59
1993 Merc 320TE Auto (4)
Costs around £62 from red at current prices, lasts 300-320 miles. (2.5 days commuting for me!)
Usage is fast motorway cruising, journey times being around 20% less than google maps predicts (no traffic, all motorway).
Official mpg is 30.1 / 24.8 / 19.3 (23.9) mpg (imp.) - I get a calculated 26 with said good pace, which beats the official figure of 24.8 @ 120kph quite significantly.
Costs around £62 from red at current prices, lasts 300-320 miles. (2.5 days commuting for me!)
Usage is fast motorway cruising, journey times being around 20% less than google maps predicts (no traffic, all motorway).
Official mpg is 30.1 / 24.8 / 19.3 (23.9) mpg (imp.) - I get a calculated 26 with said good pace, which beats the official figure of 24.8 @ 120kph quite significantly.
Got 2 cars im driving at the moment
2007 Peugeot 207 GTi, costs about £45 from 'empty'(50L tank). I get around 35mpg around town and can touch 45 on a journey if I take it easy. This aligns with the manufacturers figures (~39mpg combined) & beats Autoexpresses 33mpg estimate. This is according to the cars trip computer.
2000 Mitsubishi Shogun 2.5TD SWB It has a 75L tank, however due to the fuel guage not working I dont empty it to anything below 30-40L ish so costs £30-45 to fill. According to fuelly which I am pretty religious with I get a solid 28-29mpg to a tank, not sure what the manufacturers numbers are but most others with a fuelly record tend to sit on 23-25 so I must be doing something right (tend to not exceed 60mph due to brick like shape killing motorway mpg)
2007 Peugeot 207 GTi, costs about £45 from 'empty'(50L tank). I get around 35mpg around town and can touch 45 on a journey if I take it easy. This aligns with the manufacturers figures (~39mpg combined) & beats Autoexpresses 33mpg estimate. This is according to the cars trip computer.
2000 Mitsubishi Shogun 2.5TD SWB It has a 75L tank, however due to the fuel guage not working I dont empty it to anything below 30-40L ish so costs £30-45 to fill. According to fuelly which I am pretty religious with I get a solid 28-29mpg to a tank, not sure what the manufacturers numbers are but most others with a fuelly record tend to sit on 23-25 so I must be doing something right (tend to not exceed 60mph due to brick like shape killing motorway mpg)
ELUSIVEJIM said:
To fill the car it cost £42.00 which makes owning it a bit better.
How? I've never understood people who think like this. If the tank was twice as big and cost twice as much to fill, it'd take you twice as far... So no difference in cost at all. If you're that skint you'd just put half a tank in at a time. I don't get it.To answer your OP our 2.0 TSI Superb mk3 takes 65 litres and costs about £72 to brim. We generally see about 550 miles to a tank. The NEDC tests (which aren't actually supposed to reflect real world MPG, btw, they're just a comparison between models) indicate 45mpg combined. We get between 34 and 39mpg over a tank, but that's mostly town driving.
I've generally found if you take the three NEDC figures (urban, extra-urban, combined) and then lose the extra-urban figure, you can make use of them. As a general rule, the urban figure will be what you average over a tank and the combined figure will be what you can hit 'on a run'. It's only a guideline but it's better than the so-called combined figure for real world usage.
I've got a Honda Jazz Hybrid now. It costs about £34 to fill up at the local Shell garage (with more expensive countryside prices). It drains the tank in about the same time as my XJ8 4.0 did.
I average mid 50's MPG wise, but the book figure of 62mpg is easily beat on a long journey, or even a relatively quick one if you start with a warm engine.
My wife's Civic i-Dtec is supposed to do 78mpg and the journos report that in actual use, they have been close to that NEDC figure. I've so far had mid 60's without effort.
I average mid 50's MPG wise, but the book figure of 62mpg is easily beat on a long journey, or even a relatively quick one if you start with a warm engine.
My wife's Civic i-Dtec is supposed to do 78mpg and the journos report that in actual use, they have been close to that NEDC figure. I've so far had mid 60's without effort.
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How? I've never understood people who think like this. If the tank was twice as big and cost twice as much to fill, it'd take you twice as far... So no difference in cost at all. If you're that skint you'd just put half a tank in at a time. I don't get it.
+1
Got me there
How? I've never understood people who think like this. If the tank was twice as big and cost twice as much to fill, it'd take you twice as far... So no difference in cost at all. If you're that skint you'd just put half a tank in at a time. I don't get it.
+1
Got me there
The Merc takes around £60 of fuel and will go about 350 miles between fillups. The trip computer reports 30mpg which isn't far off.
The MG tends to take about £50 of fuel and it'll last up to 300 miles. I don't really give much though to the TF so I don't keep an eye on mileages, but I've had a couple of 1.6 K-series engines and they've all been pretty frugal.
The TVR takes about £60 of fuel too but usually gets about 150 miles out of a tank. I would assume most of it is turned into fire (i.e. literally burning money), but by f
k it's fun.
The MG tends to take about £50 of fuel and it'll last up to 300 miles. I don't really give much though to the TF so I don't keep an eye on mileages, but I've had a couple of 1.6 K-series engines and they've all been pretty frugal.
The TVR takes about £60 of fuel too but usually gets about 150 miles out of a tank. I would assume most of it is turned into fire (i.e. literally burning money), but by f
k it's fun.Smart Fortwo 1.0mhd, costs about £25 to fill it, I average 55mpg, some way short of claimed 70mpg, covers around 1,000miles/month
Astra J 2.0 CDTI, costs around £55 to fill it, I average 52mpg, way short of the claimed 69mpg, covers around 1,0000miles/month
Kia Picanto 1.0, costs around £28 to fill it, average 44mpg, mainly used by wife for very short trips, covers around 70miles/month
Astra J 2.0 CDTI, costs around £55 to fill it, I average 52mpg, way short of the claimed 69mpg, covers around 1,0000miles/month
Kia Picanto 1.0, costs around £28 to fill it, average 44mpg, mainly used by wife for very short trips, covers around 70miles/month
Dacia Logan MCV estate, DCi90. 1.5. Bought as an eco-box.
Average: 68 mpg on motorways. 50 litre tank range about 700 miles for £58.00, or 12p per mile. (Shell Nitro+ diseasel).
Not too far off from Dacia's official figures which claim up to 80 mpg with all the eco malarky switched on, which I don't use.
No VED. :-)
I did some odo checks with a sat-nav. The difference between them is 4% fast for the odo. No telling which one is out, of course, so the true MPG could be 4-5% worse.
Fuel costs are pump-to-pump, not from the in-built trip computer, which makes stuff up as it goes along.
Average: 68 mpg on motorways. 50 litre tank range about 700 miles for £58.00, or 12p per mile. (Shell Nitro+ diseasel).
Not too far off from Dacia's official figures which claim up to 80 mpg with all the eco malarky switched on, which I don't use.
No VED. :-)
I did some odo checks with a sat-nav. The difference between them is 4% fast for the odo. No telling which one is out, of course, so the true MPG could be 4-5% worse.
Fuel costs are pump-to-pump, not from the in-built trip computer, which makes stuff up as it goes along.
Edited by Slushbox on Thursday 1st September 07:36
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