Anyone not know / care about their MPG?
Discussion
Pan Pan Pan said:
Surely this has to depend on what car a driver has, and what the driver uses that particular car for.
I still don't know, though. That was my point.I know my diesel is better than my tuned up Volvo, but I don't know what they do MPG wise and I have no reason or need to check.
swerni said:
Hoofy said:
Soov535 said:
No, have a fuel card from work - pay £40 a week income tax for unlimited fuel and oil for private and work use.
If I were paying £40 a week as you are, I'd definitely be caring about my MPG... and trying to keep it under 5mpg everywhere I go. 
When I last had a fuel card I bought a supercharged mustang.
That's better!
Soov535 said:
No, have a fuel card from work - pay £40 a week income tax for unlimited fuel and oil for private and work use.
Used to pay $2/week tax to drive unlimited miles and tolls in a V6. Changed job and now have to pay for my car. The first time the CEL came on, I panicked. Mpg of the the car I bought is probably terrible but I've never checked. The solution the manufacturer came up with was to put a massive petrol tank in it. This works at $2/gal. I'm not looking forward to Trump causing oil prices to rise and I end up at $5/gal. i still love my cayenne GTS though. The last company car I had was a Chrysler Town and a Country. It was automobile hell. Particularly because it's the most practical car ever and anything I bought after would be a compromise. Fortunately, my none car wife giggled when my car set off car alarms in a car park the other day with its standard exhaust
My brother and I were both in the market for a new family car at the same time, last year. I went for a 2.0 TSI 220ps Skoda Superb (DSG) and he went for a Seat Alhambra 2.0 TDI 150ps (manual). I was laughed at and ribbed for having money to burn on petrol, as he wouldn't possibly want a petrol when diesel is 'so much cheaper on fuel'. He literally thought I was bonkers, though admitted he couldn't give two figs about driving experience but acknowledged I did. I told him to look again at modern turbo petrols, especially for his usage patterns, but no...
Roll on almost a year and I'm seeing 32mpg over a tank of mostly city/suburbs driving, and getting 40 to 45mpg on a short run (~6 miles) down the motorway or big A roads. Not stellar in the scheme of things, but the engine is a peach of a workhorse and fun to wind out on the back roads when the opportunity presents. My brother's econobox, on the other hand? The one he insists on running on the rural no-name garage's cheapest diesel because Shell is 4ppl dearer, while he spends his days doing short local journeys on mountainous roads in the freezing temperatures on an engine that never gets warm?
He's awfully confused.
So no, I don't really care about MPG but I do keep an eye on it. The smoother I drive in the day with my wife and babies on board, the more they enjoy it and relax and the more V-Power I save for my night drives and weekend hoons. Having passed RoSPA (Gold) and having had some days out with Reg Local I'm now using 20% to 25% less petrol for the same journeys at the same speeds. I then get to burn that 'saved' fuel off at 25mpg bouncing the car off the red line when I'm out on my own, without it having cost me any extra money overall. There's nothing wrong in that, imho. Could I afford to spend an extra £20 a week instead, or run a car that does 15mpg instead of 30mpg? Of course, but there's no point literally burning money when you don't have to compromise. That £20 a week is an extra £1,000 a year I can spend on giving my children happy memories.
Roll on almost a year and I'm seeing 32mpg over a tank of mostly city/suburbs driving, and getting 40 to 45mpg on a short run (~6 miles) down the motorway or big A roads. Not stellar in the scheme of things, but the engine is a peach of a workhorse and fun to wind out on the back roads when the opportunity presents. My brother's econobox, on the other hand? The one he insists on running on the rural no-name garage's cheapest diesel because Shell is 4ppl dearer, while he spends his days doing short local journeys on mountainous roads in the freezing temperatures on an engine that never gets warm?
He's awfully confused.
So no, I don't really care about MPG but I do keep an eye on it. The smoother I drive in the day with my wife and babies on board, the more they enjoy it and relax and the more V-Power I save for my night drives and weekend hoons. Having passed RoSPA (Gold) and having had some days out with Reg Local I'm now using 20% to 25% less petrol for the same journeys at the same speeds. I then get to burn that 'saved' fuel off at 25mpg bouncing the car off the red line when I'm out on my own, without it having cost me any extra money overall. There's nothing wrong in that, imho. Could I afford to spend an extra £20 a week instead, or run a car that does 15mpg instead of 30mpg? Of course, but there's no point literally burning money when you don't have to compromise. That £20 a week is an extra £1,000 a year I can spend on giving my children happy memories.
Jag_NE said:
im not sure what defines a "petrol head" but people of a serious technical persuasion would and undoubtedly do have at least a passing interest in the fuel usage of a vehicle as it is a key technical characteristic and as other have mentioned, a major change in consumption could highlight a failure in the system. the genuinely posh folk that I have associated with tend to be quite savvy with their money, fuel economy bravado has a whiff of new money to it!
Huh ?Digby said:
Pan Pan Pan said:
Surely this has to depend on what car a driver has, and what the driver uses that particular car for.
I still don't know, though. That was my point.I know my diesel is better than my tuned up Volvo, but I don't know what they do MPG wise and I have no reason or need to check.
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