330d and 335d real life mpg
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Well thanks for all the advice, really appreciated and gave me a lot to think about.
Having discovered that the 335d is an additional £62/month on company car tax I had decided to get the 330d, but then in a sudden change of thought process I have now decided to get the BMW i3 instead....
My daily commute is 30 miles each way on predominantly flat roads, it works. Plus we have solar panels at work so the charging is completely free. I will save £250/month on BIK in comparison to my current 320d plus the £200 on fuel means that even man maths are not needed to justify something fun for the weekend.
Plus it does 0-37mph in 3.5 seconds!
Yes it doesn't get around the need for an estate car but who cares. I will just hire one when needed.
Thoughts PH?
Having discovered that the 335d is an additional £62/month on company car tax I had decided to get the 330d, but then in a sudden change of thought process I have now decided to get the BMW i3 instead....
My daily commute is 30 miles each way on predominantly flat roads, it works. Plus we have solar panels at work so the charging is completely free. I will save £250/month on BIK in comparison to my current 320d plus the £200 on fuel means that even man maths are not needed to justify something fun for the weekend.
Plus it does 0-37mph in 3.5 seconds!
Yes it doesn't get around the need for an estate car but who cares. I will just hire one when needed.
Thoughts PH?
Edited by TallTony on Tuesday 29th April 21:15
Well thanks for all the advice, really appreciated and gave me a lot to think about.
Having discovered that the 335d is an additional £62/month on company car tax I had decided to get the 330d, but then in a sudden change of thought process I have now decided to get the BMW i3 instead....
My daily commute is 30 miles each way on predominantly flat roads, it works. Plus we have solar panels at work so the charging is completely free! I will save £250/month on BIK in comparison to my current 320d plus the £200 on fuel means that even man maths are not needed to justify something fun for the weekend.
Plus it does 0-37mph in 3.5 seconds!
Yes it doesn't get around the need for an estate car but who cares. I will just hire one when needed.
Thoughts PH?
Having discovered that the 335d is an additional £62/month on company car tax I had decided to get the 330d, but then in a sudden change of thought process I have now decided to get the BMW i3 instead....
My daily commute is 30 miles each way on predominantly flat roads, it works. Plus we have solar panels at work so the charging is completely free! I will save £250/month on BIK in comparison to my current 320d plus the £200 on fuel means that even man maths are not needed to justify something fun for the weekend.
Plus it does 0-37mph in 3.5 seconds!
Yes it doesn't get around the need for an estate car but who cares. I will just hire one when needed.
Thoughts PH?
Edited by TallTony on Tuesday 29th April 21:22
TallTony said:
Well thanks for all the advice, really appreciated and gave me a lot to think about.
Having discovered that the 335d is an additional £62/month on company car tax I had decided to get the 330d, but then in a sudden change of thought process I have now decided to get the BMW i3 instead....
My daily commute is 30 miles each way on predominantly flat roads, it works. Plus we have solar panels at work so the charging is completely free! I will save £250/month on BIK in comparison to my current 320d plus the £200 on fuel means that even man maths are not needed to justify something fun for the weekend.
Plus it does 0-37mph in 3.5 seconds!
Yes it doesn't get around the need for an estate car but who cares. I will just hire one when needed.
Thoughts PH?
It's your choice but you don't sound like you'll be saving much, just spending it on a second car that has a useful range? From what I've seen, few people can go electric without getting a second car for long runs, so maybe that's the way forward? Having discovered that the 335d is an additional £62/month on company car tax I had decided to get the 330d, but then in a sudden change of thought process I have now decided to get the BMW i3 instead....
My daily commute is 30 miles each way on predominantly flat roads, it works. Plus we have solar panels at work so the charging is completely free! I will save £250/month on BIK in comparison to my current 320d plus the £200 on fuel means that even man maths are not needed to justify something fun for the weekend.
Plus it does 0-37mph in 3.5 seconds!
Yes it doesn't get around the need for an estate car but who cares. I will just hire one when needed.
Thoughts PH?
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 29th April 21:22
REALIST123 said:
It's your choice but you don't sound like you'll be saving much, just spending it on a second car that has a useful range? From what I've seen, few people can go electric without getting a second car for long runs, so maybe that's the way forward?
True.But what is more exciting? A 330d Touring, or an i3 plus an Z3M Coupe in the garage?
My E92 330d manual 231bhp averages 42mpg in summer, a bit less in winter. This is on a mixture of motorway, A & B roads, including plenty of gradients, with thankfully very little time spent stuck in traffic. Longer motorway journeys give approx 50 mpg.
I generally drive sensibly to the conditions, but will make use of the car's acceleration and superb high-speed cruising ability when appropriate.
I generally drive sensibly to the conditions, but will make use of the car's acceleration and superb high-speed cruising ability when appropriate.
I know the OP has already made his mind up, but I thought I'd add what I've found in terms of mpg in my f31330d.
Over the last year and 12,000 miles of mainly A road and motorway commuting (though much of that is spent moving very slowly...) and I do have a complete inability to stop myself flooring it and leaving it in sport + mode most of the time (I do hate the ECO PRO mode, which just makes you think you specced a 318D) then I'm getting an average of 42.5 m.p.g.
Whilst this is short of the claimed figures, since those are made up in a lab with no reference to real world conditions, then only gullible fools would believe those, then I'm actually very happy with that. For the size and weight of the car and especially taking in account just how quick it actually is, then getting that sort of mileage is really quite a feat.
Over the last year and 12,000 miles of mainly A road and motorway commuting (though much of that is spent moving very slowly...) and I do have a complete inability to stop myself flooring it and leaving it in sport + mode most of the time (I do hate the ECO PRO mode, which just makes you think you specced a 318D) then I'm getting an average of 42.5 m.p.g.
Whilst this is short of the claimed figures, since those are made up in a lab with no reference to real world conditions, then only gullible fools would believe those, then I'm actually very happy with that. For the size and weight of the car and especially taking in account just how quick it actually is, then getting that sort of mileage is really quite a feat.
I never have a problem achieving the official figures when I try and replicate the tests, but I just can't drive replicating the tests.
1. I never get the chance because of others traffic, junctions, lights, roundabouts etc.
2. It is just so f
king boring!
I had to collect something from the coast last night, 90 mile round trip, and I know it takes me 50 mins each way. I had a mix I had downloaded that I wanted to hear that was just under 2 hours long, so I sat at 50mph all the way. It was 8 at night when I left and no traffic on the road, as I pulled into BK to get a coffee at 10pm I looked at the OBC and it was showing 47mpg, then going across town and having a bit of a blat on the 6 miles home it dropped to 42mpg.
These figures are not that impressive compared to the diesels here, but I was in Fiona's 2.8i Z3, a 16 year old 2.8 litre straight six petrol.
1. I never get the chance because of others traffic, junctions, lights, roundabouts etc.
2. It is just so f
king boring! I had to collect something from the coast last night, 90 mile round trip, and I know it takes me 50 mins each way. I had a mix I had downloaded that I wanted to hear that was just under 2 hours long, so I sat at 50mph all the way. It was 8 at night when I left and no traffic on the road, as I pulled into BK to get a coffee at 10pm I looked at the OBC and it was showing 47mpg, then going across town and having a bit of a blat on the 6 miles home it dropped to 42mpg.
These figures are not that impressive compared to the diesels here, but I was in Fiona's 2.8i Z3, a 16 year old 2.8 litre straight six petrol.
Welshbeef said:
This is the first time someone has posted up about well above average MPG and what an incredible result.
Perhaps but surely the sort of figure quoted by IforB is more relevant? I'm interested in what a car's likely to achieve in normal driving not in what it can do on some sort of artificial economy run!
JNW1 said:
Perhaps but surely the sort of figure quoted by IforB is more relevant? I'm interested in what a car's likely to achieve in normal driving not in what it can do on some sort of artificial economy run!
Welshbeef said:
The f30 330d in give and take traffic and reasonable distance should be pretty close to the 58mpg official with heavy driving or hooning pulling it down to the 40's and when on a cruise well into the 60's.
In normal driving an F30 330d will do 58mpg? Possible but somehow I don't think so; most of the feedback I've seen suggests mid-40's in normal driving (at best) and you're in the 30's if you're nailing it or in stop-start traffic. To get in the 60's you've wasted your money as you can't possibly be using the performance of a 330d to achieve that.JNW1 said:
In normal driving an F30 330d will do 58mpg? Possible but somehow I don't think so; most of the feedback I've seen suggests mid-40's in normal driving (at best) and you're in the 30's if you're nailing it or in stop-start traffic. To get in the 60's you've wasted your money as you can't possibly be using the performance of a 330d to achieve that.
But given an old engine 231bhp with the old 6speed auto plus no efficient dynamics gets 38-42mpg in the daily grind. So a car two generation newer with the 8 speed box stop start and coast function and efficient dynamics which has a combined 58 official (231bhp has a 42mpg official and I recall back then posters also stated that's unrealistic). 58mpg or let's say 54-58 mpg should be the day to day extra urban is mid 40's and when your on Eco mode mid 60's+mpg. So if your only expecting urban as your day in day out that's not great.
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