Real World MPG

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Dave^

Original Poster:

7,324 posts

252 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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As this is probably THE biggest UK motoring forum, i thought i'd pose the following question here.....

What MPG are you achieving from your car?

i've searched around for the past few days, but only found 'offical' figures....which we all know are far from what are achievable......

if you could enter your Make, Model, Year, MPG, and any other relevent details.....

mine for example....


Ford, Fiesta ST, 2007, 28mpg, mainly used for work and back driving 7 miles each way



Cheers!

Zeonalarm

185 posts

208 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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Rover, 416, 1999, 41 mpg, 300 miles a week half motorway and half B-road.

and

Subaru, Impreza, 2005 (2.5litre), around 20mpg, used only at weekends really for a bit of hoon.

Edited by Zeonalarm on Tuesday 17th June 18:57

Targarama

14,635 posts

282 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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Fiat Panda 100HP - 90% urban driving, hilly area - reads 38.9mpg over last few thousand miles
2006 2.0T Golf GTi manual, mostly motorways, commuting - 33.5 mpg long term on 95 RON, 36mpg on Super Unleaded 98 RON
TVR T350 - 18-28mpg depending on journey type on super - don't care though as all miles are smiles in this.

Dave^

Original Poster:

7,324 posts

252 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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Thanks guys, exactly what i'm after.....

Mars

8,670 posts

213 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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Dave^ said:
if you could enter your Make, Model, Year, MPG, and any other relevent details.....
Subaru Legacy 3.0Rn automatic sports tourer (estate in anyone else's language), MY2005 - 05, 19mpg average although I can get it up to about 24 in the motorway.

Glosphil

4,337 posts

233 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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Roughly 18 months ago Autoexpress did a test on a dozen or so cars comparing the real-world mpg with that claimed by the manufacturers. I seem to remember that the best was 10% less and the worst was more than 30% less! They also found that cars with any form of trip computer generally overstated the mpg. My 2005 Civic Type-S displays an average mpg which is 12% more than I have actually obtained.

Sharief

6,337 posts

215 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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Targarama said:
Fiat Panda 100HP - 90% urban driving, hilly area - reads 38.9mpg over last few thousand miles
Fiat Panda 100HP - 25 mile commute each day, 70% dual carriageway, 30% town/queues. Usually another 50 weekends. Get 35.5MPG over the last 1200 miles, Sport mode off majority of time. Run on 97RON.

Dracoro

8,662 posts

244 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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S2000 mixture of driving here, 28mpg.

Trip round France, 33-36mpg.

Chipper

1,314 posts

216 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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BMW DMS 335D, no worse than 35mpg on back roads with 38/39mpg on a motorway.

Albert Bridge

896 posts

192 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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Peugeot 306 XT, 1997. 16mpg laugh

caiss4

1,866 posts

196 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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A.G. said:
Fabia vRS. 65 mile round trip commute includes some motorway, some dual carriageway and some urban.

Average over 3 weeks 51.7mpg.

Since using this thing, it no longer even makes sense to use my motorbike.
I was feeling quite good about my 21-22mpg (26mpg at a steady 'speed' on the motoroway) in the S4 on 97RON compared to some others posted until I saw the Fabia above; that's certainly food for thought.

The Volvo does 27-28mpg regardless of how you drive it.

Baffled Spoon

5,250 posts

193 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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1999 Ford Focus 1.8 - about 34 mpg urban, about 44 on a motorway run

2003 Honda Civic 1.4 - pretty much same as the Focus above

KB_S1

5,967 posts

228 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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Saxo VTS

37-38mpg

Driving is mostly 15-25mile runs.
MWay, rural and a little bit of town but not much heavy traffic.
The powerband is often fully exploited.

Official figures say 33.9mpg so I am about 10% up.

Still taxed on the official figures though.

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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2000 Passat 1.9 Tdi 48mpg
1999 Chimaera 5.0 20 mpg

Bungleaio

6,324 posts

201 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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Impreza 2.5 WRX 2006 Mostly city driving but with some motorway, 18mpg. If I hoon about its sgnificantly less

cesc

184 posts

191 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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Golf R32 2003 (3.2 V6 if you didn't know), 14-18 mpg in stop start traffic, 18-20 mpg in general town driving, 26-28 mpg on the motorway. Always run on super unleaded. Oh and...

Albert Bridge said:
Peugeot 306 XT, 1997. 16mpg laugh
Eh?

jbi

12,668 posts

203 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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1993 Volvo 850 2.0

Roughly 25-32mpg mixed driving... a lot less if I drive like an idiot.

xjandy

1,216 posts

192 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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Mercedes E320 cdi-
Actual was 30.3mpg, worked out from mileage at last fill up .
Trip computor shows average over the last 8000miles as 31.3mpg.
I filled up yesterday and slowed down today to about 80-90 mph and was dead careful and got the computor up to 46.4mpg.I will continue till empty and see what it does.80 mph ,thought I would be booked for parking.

bigmanteebs

4,265 posts

214 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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Focus ST2: 24MPG round town/ A-B roads: 31MPG On a steady Journey.

Mazda 6 2.0d: 49MPG, complete mix of driving.


Negative Creep

24,942 posts

226 months

Tuesday 17th June 2008
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Haven't had my MX5 long enough to make a good average, but seem to get 30-35 mpg