Miles per gallon

[Willis7864]

Hi everyone,can you name a few cars that do the best miles to the gallon,just need a small car not to expensive but does the best miles to gallon for back and of work,

Thanks

[Willis7864]

Hi everyone,can you name a few cars that do the best miles to the gallon,just need a small car not to expensive but does the best miles to gallon for back and of work,

Thanks

[Gary C]

Small diesel polo blue or Clio, easy 60mpg

[Mr Daytona]

How many miles in your commute ? If it's only 10 miles or thereabouts, you'll quickly ruin a diesel and in any event the petrol version will be just as economical and be better to drive as well, not to mention less complex in the event of anything engine related going bang.

[jonnM]

Mr Daytona said:

How many miles in your commute ? If it's only 10 miles or thereabouts, you'll quickly ruin a diesel

Sorry, but that's rubbish. I've been commuting 10 miles in a diesel Mk1 Focus for 11 years. Never had a single issue with it.

[kambites]

A Nissan Leaf?

[Baron Greenback]

jonnM said:

Mr Daytona said:

How many miles in your commute ? If it's only 10 miles or thereabouts, you'll quickly ruin a diesel

Sorry, but that's rubbish. I've been commuting 10 miles in a diesel Mk1 Focus for 11 years. Never had a single issue with it.

With diesel particular filters in modern cars they will clog up and cost a fortune to replace is doing short journeys I think he is refering to.
quick look through cargiant Suzuki Alto 2009 1L 3cyl petrol does 60mpg if you can stand the look of the car for £3.8k

[daemon]

jonnM said:

Mr Daytona said:

How many miles in your commute ? If it's only 10 miles or thereabouts, you'll quickly ruin a MODERN diesel

Sorry, but that's rubbish. I've been commuting 10 miles in a diesel Mk1 Focus for 11 years. Never had a single issue with it.

He missed out the word "modern" - EFA.

I dont think the O/P is looking for an 11 year old car so your personal experiences of an old diesel arent terribly current or relevant.

So no, not rubbish.

[Mr Daytona]

Cheers for that.

[redtwin]

A budget will help in the recommendations.

[Matt UK]

Not much to go on... so any small car really.

Diesels may do better if you rack up meat mikes.
Hybrids may do better if in rush hour.
Electric properly cheapest of all if all short journeys.

[danp]

kambites said:

A Nissan Leaf?

Or a Mitsubishi imiev/Peugeot ion/Citroen c zero if the budget is lower.

[jonnM]

daemon said:

jonnM said:

Mr Daytona said:

How many miles in your commute ? If it's only 10 miles or thereabouts, you'll quickly ruin a MODERN diesel

Sorry, but that's rubbish. I've been commuting 10 miles in a diesel Mk1 Focus for 11 years. Never had a single issue with it.

He missed out the word "modern" - EFA.

I dont think the O/P is looking for an 11 year old car so your personal experiences of an old diesel arent terribly current or relevant.

So no, not rubbish.

He said he needs a small car, not too expensive. No mention of age of car. So, totally relevant.

[daemon]

jonnM said:

He said he needs a small car, not too expensive. No mention of age of car. So totally relevant.

Fair enough.

O/P, whats your budget?

[Mercury00]

I used to visit the Toyota Owners Forum, someone on there got 88mpg from a Yaris D-4D!

[V88Dicky]

A Leaf.

Only £15k ish now.

Or a £5k 1.2 petrol.

Or a £7k 1.6 diesel.

Or a Yaris Hybrid?

[Gary C]

Baron Greenback said:

With diesel particular filters in modern cars they will clog up and cost a fortune to replace is doing short journeys I think he is refering to.
quick look through cargiant Suzuki Alto 2009 1L 3cyl petrol does 60mpg if you can stand the look of the car for £3.8k

To be fair, a dpf can be kept clean if its given a run. I ran a 407 on a 6 mile commute for 7 years and the dpf was ok, but I did use it on the mway once every couple of months. Dual mass flywheel on the other hand had started to fail at 80k

[Qwert1e]

Cheapest motoring IMO is done in a small petrol engine car with a good reliability record.

Nissan Micra etc

[bozzy101]

Toyota Aygo.

[ferrariF50lover]

I think we probably need to know why the OP wants as many mpg as possible. Judging by the way the question has been worded, I'd say [s]he knows absolutely nothing about cars. This leads to the natural conclusion that [s]he believes that 'running costs', 'ownership costs' and 'fuel efficiency' are exactly the same thing.

If you're after the lowest possible fuel usage, then fine, spend £20,000 on something brand new and highly fuel efficient, but it'll cost you considerably more in the long run than buying a three year old example of the same thing which does fractionally fewer mpg.

More info needed.

Simon.