Miles to the gallon?

[brian chim]

After being a member since April/May i have seen a lot of people posting up questions about MPG, so when i decided to go for a drive with the girlf before new year to her sisters i recorded miles done, amount of petrol and price of petrol. I came up with some suprising results too.

Miles done = 363
Price of petrol / litre = 93
Total cost of petrol = £64

6400 / 93 = 68.81 litres used.
68.81 / 4.56 = 15.08 gallons of petrol used.
363 / 15.08 = 24.07MPG

I worked this out to 24.07 MPG.

My car is a 5 litre 94. I never went near a motorway mostly single lane A roads and country lanes. I was never sitting at a constant speed and my right foot was fibre glassed to the floor at some parts doing 110mph down some of the lanes( private lanes that is ).

I could understand on a motorway at a constant 56mph but not down country lanes etc. I am very suprised at this and wondering if anyone else has got figures like this before?

Bry

[K4TRV]

Track Day - 8.9 MPG

General running 25-28 MPG

I've a '93 400, so don't worry !!

K4Trv

[brian chim]

It just seams very high for the type of driving i did.

I was expecting to get about 15ish.

[225]

I did a 160 mile motorway stint the other day and worked out that I got about 30mpg

[redleicester]

30mpg is just about possible, all I can remember from both my Chim and the Cerb was that they were more economical than my M5....... which has now sold thank god! Time to find another TVR....

[griff50tvr]

redleicester said:

....... Time to find another TVR....

Y'know it makes sense. Then you can come back to c3c as well!!


BTW, 5 mpg on track, 22mpg on the road - enjoy your 5 litres!!



>> Edited by griff50tvr on Saturday 7th January 16:41

[redleicester]

'Ello Mike :wave:, didn't thin you lot would talk to me whilst I drove a Beemer, so I miss you all so much I thought I'd better get back to sensible cars!