Biggest Commute in Most Un-economical Car?

[R12HCO]

I don't know if this has been done before;

But I was wondering who does something like this? Say 30,000 miles a year in something that does 20 mpg at best?

I only do 200 miles a week, but at 16 mpg that is enough for me.

[entwisi]

Had a 120 miles a day come in a Audi a8 4.2 which was <20 mpg, luckily it was lpg'd

[scrwright]

not a commute but do around 30k work miles a year in a 4litre Grand Cherokee (LPG'd tho) doing 18-20mpg. LPG is what the price petrol was in 1999 now, starting to hurt a touch, but the LPG has saved me around £20,000 on fuel bills

[Marquis Rex]

I drive 16 miles to work and 16 miles back daily in my 12 mpg Dodge Ram. How's that?
Must be 15k in total yearly mileage
Green tossers- are you paying attension?

[schmalex]

I do 25k miles a year at 23mpg

[-Z-]

April 2007 - November 2008

35000 miles at around 14-16 mpg

Monaro VXR 6.0

[New POD]

I've spent the last year, driving 110* miles each way to work in a 1.8 Cavalier - an 8 V Precat, with an automatic carb. Now given that it has about 90 BHP, it's 25 mpg was hard to bear. There's no performance benefit to the fuel consumption.

• I'm not totally mad in that I go to work on Monday and Come back on Friday. To do that everyday would consume 5 hours a day.

Recently I succummed to something marginally quicker and ecomonical. I justified the whole purchase on the basis of achieving 55 mpg, but so far only 45 has been achieved. In my PISTONHEADS defence I'd like to point out that I've been checking out the mid range torque curve from a Honda 2.2icdti Accord, and I think that consumes diesel fairly quickly. 40 to 70 in 4th is particularly fun, as the variable nozzle kicks in. I took the dog to the beach on Sunday in the cavalier and wondered it it was running right. (It is slow)

[sinizter]

12000 miles in the last four months, E92 M3 - 23 MPG average.

[skene]

A colleague at work does 240 per day in a supercharged RX-8 averaging 17mpg on a run

[h0b0]

I do about 30k miles a year in my 3.5 V6 Chysler 300. I guess I get 20mpg (US)while doing it. There's about 400 people doing the same in my company so there is room for fuel consumption improvement.

[MX7]

skene said:

A colleague at work does 240 per day in a supercharged RX-8 averaging 17mpg on a run

That's close to £100/day in fuel.

[jas xjr]

300'mile roundtrip home / work. At around 18mpg is not good. Luckily I do not go home too often

[skene]

MX7 said:

That's close to £100/day in fuel.

It's just in the mean time till he finds a small diesel to run, but still

[richardxjr]

MX7 said:

skene said:

A colleague at work does 240 per day in a supercharged RX-8 averaging 17mpg on a run

That's close to £100/day in fuel.

fk! Brave too

[Astra Dan]

New POD said:

I've spent the last year, driving 110* miles each way to work in a 1.8 Cavalier - an 8 V Precat, with an automatic carb. Now given that it has about 90 BHP, it's 25 mpg was hard to bear. There's no performance benefit to the fuel consumption.

• I'm not totally mad in that I go to work on Monday and Come back on Friday. To do that everyday would consume 5 hours a day.

Recently I succummed to something marginally quicker and ecomonical. I justified the whole purchase on the basis of achieving 55 mpg, but so far only 45 has been achieved. In my PISTONHEADS defence I'd like to point out that I've been checking out the mid range torque curve from a Honda 2.2icdti Accord, and I think that consumes diesel fairly quickly. 40 to 70 in 4th is particularly fun, as the variable nozzle kicks in. I took the dog to the beach on Sunday in the cavalier and wondered it it was running right. (It is slow)

You sure? Sounds like the 1.8 SPi. My brother potters around town in his and gets reasonable MPG, yours probably needs a service and some consumables changing.

[E38Ross]

sinizter said:

12000 miles in the last four months, E92 M3 - 23 MPG average.

brave man!

[Tom H]

80 miles a day (i work 6 days a week) in my Golf at average 24mpg.

[Tom H]

iPhone double post

[B.J.W]

I was doing Worcester to Nottingham (return) for a while in a Audi RS4.

My commute to work is now 4 miles - which is particularly V8 friendly.

[Wills2]

I did 40,000 miles in 18mths in a 911 3.8 C2S averaged about 25mpg, it wasn't the fuel that mullered me but the loss in value, about 25k-30k.