RE: Focus RS To Enter MPG Marathon

[ctallchris]

360 miles 13 Gallon tank my Looks like i'd have to hit 28 mpg to complete the circuit...

Anyone else keen on the idea getting 10 or so TVR's lined up on the start line to show them what we can do?

Let's be honest we wouldn't be finishing but we would at least make it a bit entertaining. I do like the image of a tuscan struggling to pass a fiat 500 for a few seconds before becoming bored then blasting off into the sunset

Edited by ctallchris on Thursday 24th September 15:21

[Jont999]

Dibby said:

VeeFource said:

Dibby said:

Aaaaahhahah! 35mph? Friendly to your pocket? You're having a laugh right?

You can't have performance and economy and that proves it. 35mpg is a rubbish figure if you're talking about pure economy, turn up on a scooter and get 100mpg and the 0-60 (sorry, make that 0-30, doubt you'll ever hit 60 on a scooter) will be as rubbish as the RS's economy.

The best balance of performance and economy has to be from a modern diesel. Otherwise you can have performance OR economy.

I disagree, and I know this is normally considered unfair but since you've mentioned a scooter, my VFR750 does 50mpg & 0-60 in 2.8 secs, not bad for a 13 year old machine

Aye, should have mentioned the whole raft of bikes that will outperform the RS in terms of all-out performance figures, mpg, price and fun. In fact, the only thing the RS has got going for it is you stay dry when it rains

that and you can have a crash in it and you don't have to be scraped off the road afterwards. I quite like the idea of my face not being the crumple-zone.

[wab172uk]

[quote=off_again] Stay off the turbo and let the torque drive you along and it will be fine. quote]

I tried that for 2 weeks with My Impreza STI PPP. It was painful. Off Turbo, little old ladies in 1.0L engined car were leaving me for dead.

Average mpg went from 22mpg to 26mpg. Decided it wasn't worth it for 4mpg.

[VeeFource]

Jont999 said:

Dibby said:

VeeFource said:

Dibby said:

Aaaaahhahah! 35mph? Friendly to your pocket? You're having a laugh right?

You can't have performance and economy and that proves it. 35mpg is a rubbish figure if you're talking about pure economy, turn up on a scooter and get 100mpg and the 0-60 (sorry, make that 0-30, doubt you'll ever hit 60 on a scooter) will be as rubbish as the RS's economy.

The best balance of performance and economy has to be from a modern diesel. Otherwise you can have performance OR economy.

I disagree, and I know this is normally considered unfair but since you've mentioned a scooter, my VFR750 does 50mpg & 0-60 in 2.8 secs, not bad for a 13 year old machine

Aye, should have mentioned the whole raft of bikes that will outperform the RS in terms of all-out performance figures, mpg, price and fun. In fact, the only thing the RS has got going for it is you stay dry when it rains

that and you can have a crash in it and you don't have to be scraped off the road afterwards. I quite like the idea of my face not being the crumple-zone.

Yeah, because that's exactly where the real fun lies; in safety! If you want to be safe don't bother with an RS, buy a micra so you can never go fast enough to hurt yourself!! MMMmmm... soooo safe

Edited by VeeFource on Thursday 24th September 18:39

[Dave^]

VeeFource said:

Jont999 said:

Dibby said:

VeeFource said:

Dibby said:

Aaaaahhahah! 35mph? Friendly to your pocket? You're having a laugh right?

You can't have performance and economy and that proves it. 35mpg is a rubbish figure if you're talking about pure economy, turn up on a scooter and get 100mpg and the 0-60 (sorry, make that 0-30, doubt you'll ever hit 60 on a scooter) will be as rubbish as the RS's economy.

The best balance of performance and economy has to be from a modern diesel. Otherwise you can have performance OR economy.

I disagree, and I know this is normally considered unfair but since you've mentioned a scooter, my VFR750 does 50mpg & 0-60 in 2.8 secs, not bad for a 13 year old machine

Aye, should have mentioned the whole raft of bikes that will outperform the RS in terms of all-out performance figures, mpg, price and fun. In fact, the only thing the RS has got going for it is you stay dry when it rains

that and you can have a crash in it and you don't have to be scraped off the road afterwards. I quite like the idea of my face not being the crumple-zone.

Yeah, because that's exactly where the real fun lies; in safety! If you want to be safe don't bother with an RS, buy yourself a micra!! MMMmmm... soooo safe

technically, the rs is safer....

better brakes, more grip, etc....

you just need to glue a tennis ball under the loud pedal.....

[VeeFource]

Dave^ said:

VeeFource said:

Jont999 said:

Dibby said:

VeeFource said:

Dibby said:

Aaaaahhahah! 35mph? Friendly to your pocket? You're having a laugh right?

You can't have performance and economy and that proves it. 35mpg is a rubbish figure if you're talking about pure economy, turn up on a scooter and get 100mpg and the 0-60 (sorry, make that 0-30, doubt you'll ever hit 60 on a scooter) will be as rubbish as the RS's economy.

The best balance of performance and economy has to be from a modern diesel. Otherwise you can have performance OR economy.

I disagree, and I know this is normally considered unfair but since you've mentioned a scooter, my VFR750 does 50mpg & 0-60 in 2.8 secs, not bad for a 13 year old machine

Aye, should have mentioned the whole raft of bikes that will outperform the RS in terms of all-out performance figures, mpg, price and fun. In fact, the only thing the RS has got going for it is you stay dry when it rains

that and you can have a crash in it and you don't have to be scraped off the road afterwards. I quite like the idea of my face not being the crumple-zone.

Yeah, because that's exactly where the real fun lies; in safety! If you want to be safe don't bother with an RS, buy yourself a micra!! MMMmmm... soooo safe

technically, the rs is safer....

better brakes, more grip, etc....

you just need to glue a tennis ball under the loud pedal.....

Edited my post just slightly too late didn't I, dang it. I Meant that you could never go fast enough in a micra to get yourself in trouble in the first place.

Edited by VeeFource on Thursday 24th September 18:44

[Dave^]

VeeFource said:

Dave^ said:

VeeFource said:

Jont999 said:

Dibby said:

VeeFource said:

Dibby said:

Aaaaahhahah! 35mph? Friendly to your pocket? You're having a laugh right?

You can't have performance and economy and that proves it. 35mpg is a rubbish figure if you're talking about pure economy, turn up on a scooter and get 100mpg and the 0-60 (sorry, make that 0-30, doubt you'll ever hit 60 on a scooter) will be as rubbish as the RS's economy.

The best balance of performance and economy has to be from a modern diesel. Otherwise you can have performance OR economy.

I disagree, and I know this is normally considered unfair but since you've mentioned a scooter, my VFR750 does 50mpg & 0-60 in 2.8 secs, not bad for a 13 year old machine

Aye, should have mentioned the whole raft of bikes that will outperform the RS in terms of all-out performance figures, mpg, price and fun. In fact, the only thing the RS has got going for it is you stay dry when it rains

that and you can have a crash in it and you don't have to be scraped off the road afterwards. I quite like the idea of my face not being the crumple-zone.

Yeah, because that's exactly where the real fun lies; in safety! If you want to be safe don't bother with an RS, buy yourself a micra!! MMMmmm... soooo safe

technically, the rs is safer....

better brakes, more grip, etc....

you just need to glue a tennis ball under the loud pedal.....

Edited my post just slightly too late didn't I, dang it. I Meant that you could never go fast enough in a micra to get yourself in trouble in the first place.

Edited by VeeFource on Thursday 24th September 18:44

i know the Micra vs RS isn't the subject, but throw a Micra into a roundabout at 45 and it's gonna hurt..... whereas the rs will sail round.....

but hey, i'm being an ass.....

[JimF]

Dibby said:

Aaaaahhahah! 35mph? Friendly to your pocket? You're having a laugh right?

You can't have performance and economy and that proves it. 35mpg is a rubbish figure if you're talking about pure economy, turn up on a scooter and get 100mpg and the 0-60 (sorry, make that 0-30, doubt you'll ever hit 60 on a scooter) will be as rubbish as the RS's economy.

The best balance of performance and economy has to be from a modern diesel. Otherwise you can have performance OR economy.

I have to disagree with this i'm afraid. My MK1 Octy vRS regularly gives 40+ mpg on my daily 76 mile commute. No motorways just roll with the traffic. I've seen as high as 46 when trying. Throw in a few overtakes and up the speed i still see mid 30's. The car has a stage 1 tune so 210 bhp and 232 lb/ft.

I think that's a very respectable balance.

Jim

[danny tattersall]

I managed to get 35 mpg out of my 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S over a 180 mile journey coming back from Silverstone during the Summer. That was with 2 passengers and fully laden. Not bad considering that it is considerably more powerful than a Focus RS, is 4 wheel drive and I wasn't trying to set a record of any sort. The Focus must be able to easily do 40mpg unless it has some Subaru Impreza DNA in it!

Danny.

[Rollcage]

Walton may be a journo ,but ISTR he is an old hand at these economy run type things. I am pretty sure that Ford are aware of what the RS is capable of, so we can expect to see an impressive result!

[jack89]

hmmm this is making me think i may have a slightly heavy right foot, i drive a mk1 focus 2litre 130bhp, regularly serivced and in good working condition and i average 22mpg 8-)

[Zoki]

jack89 said:

hmmm this is making me think i may have a slightly heavy right foot, i drive a mk1 focus 2litre 130bhp, regularly serivced and in good working condition and i average 22mpg 8-)

I've never seen below 25mpg average and I have a heavy foot and live in London.

[peterperkins]

mat205125 said:

I hope it doesn't rain. I can't see it handling very well with 80psi in the tyres.

You aren't allowed to do that, everything has to be standard spec book pressures and all is checked at start.

[Dave^]

Zoki said:

jack89 said:

hmmm this is making me think i may have a slightly heavy right foot, i drive a mk1 focus 2litre 130bhp, regularly serivced and in good working condition and i average 22mpg 8-)

I've never seen below 25mpg average and I have a heavy foot and live in London.

I had one of those a few years ago, (my first 'proper' car) and driving with not much sympathy gave me much better results than that!

[Craigy_97elise]

I currently drive a 2 litre TFSI Audi TT (fwd).

The best mpg I've ever had out of it is just over 56mpg (I'm only counting runs of 50 miles+ here, so it's not like I'm resetting the trip every time I get it up to 70mph). I recon that's pretty good for a car capable of about 150mph flat out. It's a pretty good advertisement for the high-tech injectors VAG used on the engine, as well as the fact that it's tractable enough to pull from about 1000rpm.

I didn't take it above 40mph for the vast majority of that journey, and I didn't have to stop at all due to combination of quiet roads (middle of the night) and route without traffic lights or many junctions.

Has anyone else got similar sorts of MPG out of a fast petrol car?

Craig

[ctallchris]

Craigy_97elise said:

I currently drive a 2 litre TFSI Audi TT (fwd).

The best mpg I've ever had out of it is just over 56mpg (I'm only counting runs of 50 miles+ here, so it's not like I'm resetting the trip every time I get it up to 70mph). I recon that's pretty good for a car capable of about 150mph flat out. It's a pretty good advertisement for the high-tech injectors VAG used on the engine, as well as the fact that it's tractable enough to pull from about 1000rpm.

I didn't take it above 40mph for the vast majority of that journey, and I didn't have to stop at all due to combination of quiet roads (middle of the night) and route without traffic lights or many junctions.

Has anyone else got similar sorts of MPG out of a fast petrol car?

Craig

Rolling down a hill...

[DWT]

I had a MK1 Focus 2ltr and that did 35+mpg on the motorway,rubbish around town 22-25mpg

[hyperspeed2k]

On the last drive from Chelt to Cornwall, then around back lanes and to the beach etc for a few days last weekend I got a combined average of 40mpg, that's in a mk4 Ibiza 20VT running around 200bhp. It's quite easy to get 38mpg indicated as combined average, it's 35mpg in the book. (as long as I avoid nasty Tesco Value Super unleaded 97ron).

[Rollcage]

38mpg

Not bad I suppose!

[HellDiver]

Not bad, just about the same as I got from my 1.8 Vectra.