C220 W204 economy
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Not very exciting know, especially on a forum dominated by AMGs but I think k this is worthy of a mention.
I am constantly amazed at the economy I get from my C220, and without driving particularly carefully. For a big car with decent performance it's pretty good.
This is pretty much all on my 22 mile each way commute to/from work on b roads with almost no a roads and no motorways at all (hence tge low average speed).
The drive home from work has less traffic so tends to be better. Arriving home today it was on 67mpg.
I am constantly amazed at the economy I get from my C220, and without driving particularly carefully. For a big car with decent performance it's pretty good.
This is pretty much all on my 22 mile each way commute to/from work on b roads with almost no a roads and no motorways at all (hence tge low average speed).
The drive home from work has less traffic so tends to be better. Arriving home today it was on 67mpg.
I don't know if the trip computer work differently, or they really are much better now, but I've got a W203 (actually an S203 as it's an estate) C270CDi and I can't get good MPG readings on short journeys.
It seems to start off showing some random number between 30 and 35MPG and then it very slowly increases the further I drive. If I get on the motorway and into steady cruise, it'll have increased to around 55MPG after maybe 100 miles.
Long term MPG shows 52MPG (I pretty well only use it for long runs). Actual calculated MPG hovers around 46MPG brim to brim.
It seems to start off showing some random number between 30 and 35MPG and then it very slowly increases the further I drive. If I get on the motorway and into steady cruise, it'll have increased to around 55MPG after maybe 100 miles.
Long term MPG shows 52MPG (I pretty well only use it for long runs). Actual calculated MPG hovers around 46MPG brim to brim.
Diesels seem to hate running cold but warm up and improve quickly so I would expect short journeys to be fairly poor. What they are very good at is cruising along at a steady speed. Which is why the economy on mine surprises me as my 22 mile trip has only 2 straights totalling around 2 miles, the rest being the usual B road fare.
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