New Cooper - mpg?
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My wife has just taken delivery of a new Cooper. She traded in a 04 Cooper, mainly for an update but also because she considered the fuel economy to be on the disappointing side. Despite mainly out of town motoring she never managed more than 35-36 mpg. Anyone any idea of what she should expect from her new Cooper?
flx said:
Early '07 R56 Cooper without Stop Start and 17" wheels doing short journeys aroun lanes gets 39.8mpg odd - Raises to around 45 odd on the very rare motorway blat. Not great figures if you ask me - Get the same out of an S!!
you will be lucky i get nowhere near that out of my S Ditto with the 'I'm glad it's not just me...' My Cooper D (17" rims) is returning no better than 51mpg after 6 months of fairly gentle ownership, which while being pretty good, is nowhere near the 72.4/64.2-depending where you look- that Mini claim on their website. How can they get away with this? No other car I've owned, from WRX to Golf GTi, to Alfa V6, has ever been so far from the advertised figure.
Still love it, though.
Still love it, though.
mjadams_uk said:
How can they get away with this? No other car I've owned, from WRX to Golf GTi, to Alfa V6, has ever been so far from the advertised figure.
Still love it, though.
I think this is an affliction that affects every modern small car as CO2 output legislation and CO2 output-based taxation become more and more important. The ECE-standard fuel consumption test is performed under 'laboratory' conditions and the more development time spent on making sure the car performs at its best on this test, the more the manufacturer comes out smelling of roses - even if the changes made are likely to hurt real-world fuel consumption (not unlike the EuroNCAP crash test procedures then).Still love it, though.
I doubt the makers of the WRX and Alfa V6 were as bothered about the test's outcome - they knew they were in for a bashing anyway. I struggle to get near the stated fuel consumption of my R50 Mini One, yet exceed the stated values of even a four litre Chimaera by some margin with my 4.3, even though it's not yet run in.
To get back to the original query - having road tested an early R56 Cooper at the end of 2006 under the same circumstances as my own One, I'd say there is significant 'air' between the two in terms of fuel consumption. For instance where my usual late night jaunt back from Calais usually results an a fuel consumption of 9l/100km, the Cooper consistently showed values around the 7.5l/100 km mark (motorway, cruising speed about 0.95 leptons ).
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