Who said V12's are thirsty?

[V12JDC]

[AMDBSTony]

Do you live at the top of a big hill and this is the consumprion on a trailing throttle at the bottom

[V12JDC]

Amazingly no.....this is a 25 mile m6 trip, gave it some full throttle moments over about 7 miles on country lanes including throttle blips and it dropped to 21, it got better since I had it, wondering if it's linked to being stood previously.

[AMDBSVNick]

V12JDC said:

this is a 25 mile m6 trip

[cayman-black]

They must consume less when they have done over 30k miles then.

[divetheworld]

You're not using it right.

Here's a nice instructional picture from the halls of PH.

[JiggyJaggy]

I will be driving a DB9 from Plymouth to London today so will try and gauge the MPG as a marker bassoon on Motorway and A roads.

[JaseB]

cayman-black said:

They must consume less when they have done over 30k miles then.

Mine certainly doesn't...

[Rappa]

divetheworld said:

You're not using it right.

Here's a nice instructional picture from the halls of PH.

Driving with the handbrake on never helps!!

[JohnG1]

Tailing wind?

[V12JDC]

Be interested to see how the Plymouth trip goes

I was bl genuinely cruising at 70 to 75 on the motorway....no fix I swear!

Performance is good too, it has had new coils and plugs recently but other than that standard.

[Rappa]

JDC,

I can get 24mpg on a motorway run. 18mpg going back and forth to work and less if I try harder.

Sean

[vinnie83]

divetheworld said:

You're not using it right.

Here's a nice instructional picture from the halls of PH.

That's about the same as mine!

I have the quicksilver backbox though, which makes me keep holding lower gears for the noise

[divetheworld]

vinnie83 said:

That's about the same as mine!

I have the quicksilver backbox though, which makes me keep holding lower gears for the noise

Yes, maximising back pops, burbles and crackles does seem to have a very negative effect on fuel economy!!

[JiggyJaggy]

V12JDC said:

Be interested to see how the Plymouth trip goes

I was bl genuinely cruising at 70 to 75 on the motorway....no fix I swear!

Performance is good too, it has had new coils and plugs recently but other than that standard.

It went quite well... Plymouth to London was 337 miles and I averaged 26.2 mpg which included approx 2.5 hours motorway driving at a relaxed 70, a few bursts of speed out of boredom, 20 mins of fairly solid traffic near Reading and some slow urban driving near Heathrow as I got home. Interestingly before I got stumped in local rush hour at 6:30pm the average omg was 26.8 mpg which is pretty damn good from a V12 if you ask me. I think I used up circa £30-35 in fuel.

[V12JDC]

That's great mate....they are large capacity engines which absorb fuel when pushed....bit that's impressively light on fuel when cruising....I intend to go to Honfluer in 2017 in mine so it helps to get better economy on a long run