How Far Can You Get On £20 of Petrol/ Diesel Nowadays?

[RikkiGTI]

Hi, quick question for you all as I would be quite interested to see what results people are getting from this,

So as the petrol price ever continues to fluctuate, I was just interested to see how much mileage you other Piston Headers get from your cars from the £20 top up from empty/ reserve of petrol or diesel.

I'll get the ball rolling, My 1989 Vw Golf Mk2 Gti will get around £120ish miles from £20 of petrol when the needle just drops into reserves!

R-GTI

EDIT - also state what car you have also!

Edited by RikkiGTI on Sunday 11th December 15:18

[DanielC4GP]

About 90 for me. Get roughly about 45 miles per tenner. I mostly do city start stop driving though.

[y2blade]

about 200miles here.

[theironduke]

Best i've done in my van on 20 quid, before wimping out and filling up is about 140 miles, works out at about 47 mpg, mostely pottering around town. I'm happy with that for a 13 year old Kangoo.

[RikkiGTI]

y2blade said:

about 200miles here.

y2 - impressive! What's that in?

[Dog Star]

210 in my C1
80 or so in my SL

(guess which car does all the donkey work...)

[Conor D]

Calculated at about 93 roughly..

Although if I'm hooning it, I could watch the needle go down..

ETA: '92 Eunos Roadster 1.6

[B3njamin]

It costs about £50 on average to fill the mx-5 up and with mostly urban driving I get about 250 miles to the tank.

Maths was never something I saw eye-to-eye but I believe that this would mean I'd get 100 miles before I ran out. That's actually rather saddening now I've worked it out.

[Cemesis]

70 miles from the M5 (sometimes more, sometimes less).

Can get 200 miles out of the Arosa to £20.

[ooo000ooo]

170 miles plus from a 1.4 tdci fiesta.

[Petrol Only]

220ish from missus golf slowmotion.

[Petrol Only]

B3njamin said:

It costs about £50 on average to fill the mx-5 up and with mostly urban driving I get about 250 miles to the tank.

Maths was never something I saw eye-to-eye but I believe that this would mean I'd get 100 miles before I ran out. That's actually rather saddening now I've worked it out.

Ive found with my mk1 35mpg if you drive like a granny in a beige fiesta. Or about 28 ish thrashing it about . That's one of the reasons there so wonderful for me. Encourage you to thrash it everywhere.

[the_kato]

I get about 120 miles out of 20 quid of diesel in my 320d

[B3njamin]

Petrol Only said:

Ive found with my mk1 35mpg if you drive like a granny in a beige fiesta. Or about 28 ish thrashing it about . That's one of the reasons there so wonderful for me. Encourage you to thrash it everywhere.

I get about that MPG or slightly higher on the motorway but since most of my mileage during the week is through towns with a small amount of A road, it rarely gets above 30mpg and as you say, at that point it doesn't seem to matter too much whether you're driving economically or not.

[mike9009]

Depends on how much the petrol/ diesel costs for a litre. If it was £20/ litre, you wouldn't get very far. When I first started driving, my car did approx 30mpg but from £20 I could do approx 240 miles. Now my car does about 40 mpg and from £20 I will get about 120 miles. (Don't pick me up on the maths!!)

So my answer is 6 miles because I paid over the odds for my petrol.

I think essentially you are asking for everyones mpg?

Sorry to be obtuse..........

Mike

[ensignia]

I once managed only 45 miles in my RX-8 from £25 of fuel before it physically ran out of juice

The 350Z's not great either, probably get 60 miles from £20.

[RikkiGTI]

mike9009 said:

Depends on how much the petrol/ diesel costs for a litre. If it was £20/ litre, you wouldn't get very far. When I first started driving, my car did approx 30mpg but from £20 I could do approx 240 miles. Now my car does about 40 mpg and from £20 I will get about 120 miles. (Don't pick me up on the maths!!)

So my answer is 6 miles because I paid over the odds for my petrol.

I think essentially you are asking for everyones mpg?

Sorry to be obtuse..........

Mike

That's okay! Yeah I see what your getting at Mike! Lol, And yes if £20 was only for a litropus petrol we wouldn't be getting very far at all! I was basically asking what people are getting this present day for £20 worth of fuel, so yes essentially an mpg related question, and there has been quite a few good answers from those who have replied!

The main reason was that I thought that the 120 miles for £20 of petrol - average cost of £1.30 to £1.36 average in my area was pretty reasonable for a 21 year old hot hatch, and just wanted to see what other people were getting mileage wise for the amount of petrol I normally put in weekly

Cheers, Rik

[Monty Python]

About 120 from my 335d

[Si_steve]

120-130ish from a 2.3 turbo petrol

[benjj]

About 63 miles in the FFRR if driven carefully.