Mazda RX8 Real world MPG

[jay140285]

Morning all,

Quick question.

RX8 - as a daily driver, low miles, 2 know owners so on paper its the right car.

What can I expect to return mpg, I know they are not the best on fuel but on a motorway commute to work, cruising at a general 75mph who should I see????

Current Saab Aero returns 30mpg average.

Cheers

James

[juan king]

mine was seeing in between 16-23mpg combined

[jay140285]

That is quite varied,

Can I expect to see mid 20's on a motorway run?

[sherman]

Around 20mpg but if you do boot it for a bit of fun it will be down into the low teens.

[sherman]

jay140285 said:

That is quite varied,

Can I expect to see mid 20's on a motorway run?

Mid 20's will be the best you could get. Expect to get around 225 miles from a full tank on a motorway run. The car has a 50 litre tank and that equates to around 22mpg

[Phil Dicky]

Mines doing about 23mpg at the moment, thats after a varied run yesterday A and B roads and 80 miles on a motorway.

[jay140285]

Cheers guys.

Are there any difference between the 192 and 231 variants apart from the engine power of course.

Any kit differences/suspension etc etc

[Ozone]

sherman said:

The car has a 50 litre tank and that equates to around 22mpg

Mine had a 60 litre tank and i usually got 200 - 230 miles from it with mixed road driving.

[Phil Dicky]

jay140285 said:

Cheers guys.

Are there any difference between the 192 and 231 variants apart from the engine power of course.

Any kit differences/suspension etc etc

231 is 6 speed and has xenons, can't remember anymore at the moment

[juan king]

I really wouldnt bother with the 192 tbh

[Rosun]

On a typical motorway cruise .... i.e. 3 lanes of rush hour traffic where every fker weaves from lanes 1-3 plus 10 minutes of spirited driving after the M60 / M61 interchange ... 25 mpg

[Efbe]

20.6 ish mpg

http://www.fuelly.com/car/mazda/rx-8

and this is proper data, not just people guessing, or manufacturers dreaming

[otolith]

Mine averaged 20mpg overall and would do 25-27mpg on the motorway.

[wolves_wanderer]

Motorway journeys at 70ish will give me about 260-270 miles from a tank which is about 24 mpg. Short journeys will give 16-18. Thrashing it makes very little difference to babying it.

[jay140285]

Man this isnt good.

I really really want an RX8 but it just looks liks it going to be to costly to use to commute in.

The Saab Aero at 30mpg needs filling up enough.

[otolith]

Just for comparison, our Saab Aero does 26-27mpg day to day. We run it on super. The RX-8 just needs 95 RON.

[davidd]

We got low 20's out of ours, which was about the same as our Saab 95 aero....

[jay140285]

Maybe my 95 is higher average due to doing a 500mile a week commute on motorway and fast A and B roads.

[Ali_T]

18-21mpg. Only went below 18 when the cat on my first 231 started to fail. Any drastic drop should have you checking compression, coils or catalyst (the latter gives a dramatic drop in performance, you'll know!).

Once got 27mpg. Once!

[jay140285]

Cheers,

Not 100% sure but it seemed to use just a little more then the Aero on my commute this week so somewhere in the mid 20's I guess.