Real World MPG

[kambites]

rev-erend said:

Ditto .. Clio 182 : 7 mile trip to work averages 34 mpg

Just did a day return trip to North Wales and it did 40 mpg

Amazing !

Amazing how? It's a small, light, not massively powerful car, it damned well should be efficient.

[Luckyluciano]

In three months of mixed driving i've got an average of 20.1mpg which is alot better than i thought it was going to be.

07 Aston V8 Vantage.

[Scamper]

Seat Arosa 1.4 TDi currently doing mixture of 3x 100 mile motorway daily commutes (50ew) and town driving getting 55mpg (peaked at 61mpg) over last few months.

Porsche 964 C4 - weekend driving, etc - couldnt tell you!! I dont really care!! Less fuel i use in the car above means I can fill the porsche up more often!

[ZeeTacoe]

kambites said:

So how come a Honda Insight can return 100mpg on the motorway (and yes, I've seen over 100mpg average on a tank of fuel in one)?

because the insight is a normal(ok very low CD and light weight) small hatch with a 'normal' powertrain that is only assisted by the flywheel motor/generator and tiny batteries. its a very very clever way to use both drive systems to best effect.

alackofspeed said:

Anyone ever been amused by their track day fuel consumption? It's vaguely entertaining trying to see how low it will go!

47mpg for last summers trackday and 45.8 for the one i've just done. compaired to 43mpg on the commute.

[Shar2]

The XK8 seems to be averaging around 26mpg alhough I have got 30mpg on a long run and 14mpg in and around town,(which I try to avoid).

The Laguna 1.9dci is great, commuting it averages 46-47mpg and on long runs gives 53-54mpg, not bad for a 2001 model with 106k on the clock.

[xjandy]

Mercedes G wagon 1988 280 petrol

12-13mpg, 16 is the best I have ever managed!

[shoestring7]

2007 Porsche Cayman 2.7

70 mile weekly commute of fast A road and dual/motorway; usually around 28mpg, best 34mpg, can't get it below 26 even flat everywhere.

Christ its fun though!

SS7

[kambites]

ZeeTacoe said:

kambites said:

So how come a Honda Insight can return 100mpg on the motorway (and yes, I've seen over 100mpg average on a tank of fuel in one)?

because the insight is a normal(ok very low CD and light weight) small hatch with a 'normal' powertrain that is only assisted by the flywheel motor/generator and tiny batteries. its a very very clever way to use both drive systems to best effect.

In other words, it's a proper hybrid, no?

[ChrisO]

2005 Impreza WRX PPP - mixed driving, 25mpg. On a prolonged motorway run nearer 35

[otolith]

kambites said:

In other words, it's a proper hybrid, no?

As opposed to?

I think people who get sniffy about what is and isn't a true hybrid tend to think a true hybrid is a series hybrid, not parallel hybrids like the Insight and (arguably) the Prius.

[collateral]

ZeeTacoe said:

collateral said:

306 dTurbo (non HDi) gives about 40ish mpg whatever I do

306 DTurbo 1998 - normal driving 43mpg. thats M60 M56 at rush hour to north wales
-Track day to london and back 45.8mpg. thats constant cruise of about .8 leptons and a days worth of cone dodging.

In for a service on Friday so it'll be interesting to see if that has any effect.

[zax]

otolith said:

mike_1985 said:

zax said:

2003 Civic Type R - in general use between 34 & 38mpg. If I'm really trying, over 40mpg. If I'm really not trying mid twenties. or should that be the other way around?

Are you sure about that ? my 06 civic (sold now) is worse than the lexus400h and the is250 !!!
Dont know where you drive but maybe should bring me in !!! ill get 100mpg from a v6
I would say i got 18mpg from the type r

I had a 2002 Civic Type-R, and I averaged 29.3mpg. Fuel consumption of VTEC engines is very sensitive to driving style; if you drive them gently they are very economical, if you're lead-footed they guzzle with the best of them.

Yep, what he said

I am sad enough to have a record showing all of the fillups since I bought it, consumption measured by brimming the tank each time and measuring distance between refills. It can be relatively frugal if you really try, but it's hard to maintain that sort of discipline for a whole tankful

[matmoxon]

Ford Focus ST, 2.5l turbo, 06 model (orange of course) 25 mpg on the general drive might see 30mpg if you slipstream lorries on a motorway, on a bit of a hoon mid to high teens.

Edited by matmoxon on Wednesday 18th June 18:36

[PaulV]

1999 Xantia 2.0Hdi (Pre dented for £750 a year ago)
Commute from Newbury to M4 J11 - 65mph there, 55mph back gets 55 mpg, a tad more if slipstreaming and coasting.
Boring but cheap.

[jp7152]

2008 BMW 118d 53mpg mixed driving
1997 M3 Evo 22mpg mixed driving
1988 E30 325i 21 mpg a roads/motorways driving

[mike_1985]

crofty1984 said:

mike_1985 said:

I once drove about 2 miles on electric only ( you have no ideea how good that felt )

Why didn't you walk?

I didnt walk because i had chicks to pick up

[kambites]

otolith said:

kambites said:

In other words, it's a proper hybrid, no?

As opposed to?

I think people who get sniffy about what is and isn't a true hybrid tend to think a true hybrid is a series hybrid, not parallel hybrids like the Insight and (arguably) the Prius.

I meant "proper" in that it was designed to maximise fuel economy, I wasn't making a technical reference.

[catso]

2004 Audi A3 3.2 DSG - 23mpg, (25mpg taking it easy/no aircon), 29mpg taking it steady/motorway run
2001 Ford Galaxy 2.3 - 26mpg, 30mpg steady/motorway.

[ZeeTacoe]

collateral said:

In for a service on Friday so it'll be interesting to see if that has any effect.

at best it'll stop the chugg chugg plink plink noise for about 200miles.

mike_1985 said:

I didnt walk because i had chicks to pick up

either you're lying or it was a taxi

[kambites]

ZeeTacoe said:

mike_1985 said:

I didnt walk because i had chicks to pick up

either you're lying or it was a taxi

Maybe he works on an egg farm?