Real World MPG

[anonymous-user]

Fiat Grande Punto Sprting 1.9 Multijet. Driving a lot of urban routes and back roads with the odd motorway run. Getting 40mpg average! if I do a long motorway cruise I can do closer to 50mpg

[Frik]

BMW M3 E36 3.2

Per week, 5 days of 5 miles a day and two trips of 100, mostly motorway miles.

26.4 mpg according to the OBC.

[[TW]Fox]

BMW 530i Sport manual - current average 22.9mpg. Exclusively town work, no journeys longer than 5-6 miles from cold. Will return 35mpg average on the Motorway.

[minghis]

2006 BMW 320D SE Auto saloon. 39.7mpg ave since new - 50% motorway, 50% mixed.

[Ebo100]

MG ZR 160 VVC 35mpg average with a combination of town & duel carriageway

Wifes Suzuki Grand Vitara DDis 35mpg mostly round town but never done better than 38 on a run.

Edited by Ebo100 on Tuesday 17th June 20:24

[eldar]

Mercedes 350 slk, 26.1mpg overall. 16 if having fun...

[Albert Bridge]

cesc said:

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

Eh?

I know I shouldn't laugh as it's really not funny...just amuses me that it's less than the mpg in a Porsche Cayenne. Don't know if it's because it's old AND an automatic AND i'm stuck in London traffic constantly.

[cv01jw]

1995 Volvo 480ES Auto. Used daily for 35 mile round trip to work on Dorset B roads, with another couple of hundred miles a week once at work, usually on A roads but rarely get to a motorway. I tend to drive progressively, but legally too.

The computer states between 32 and 34 mpg (it only uses the last 60km to work out its average, which is crap), but this is consistant with what I calculate at the pumps.

[Sharief]

xjandy said:

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.

You slowed down to 80-90? I slow down to 60 to get better MPG and even then I don't get 46.4.

[anonymous-user]

Ford Escort 1.6, 2000. 26mpg around town, 35-40mpg motorway at a constant 0.8 leptons.

Ford estimate 25mpg around town and 35mpg motorway, so it's pretty realistic.

[tommobot]

Clio 182, Mostly used for work which is around 7 miles away, average seems to be 33.5mph according to trip computer

[neil_w]

vauxhall astra 1.9cdti (150ps): average of 45mpg over the last 32,000 miles, I use that for a 100 mile round trip every day which includes a lot of queuing.

Mini cooper s (supercharged version): average of 28mpg over the last 2000 miles. My girlfriend uses this to get to the train station every day (quiet urban roads, about 4 miles a day) and I occasionally use it for my commute.

[Pwig]

I tend not to get over 25mpg on any car i drive, inlucding the diesels

[LeoSayer]

Audi A6 Avant 2.7T Quattro Auto Urban 20mpg / Out of town 24mpg
Porsche 993 C2 manual Usual weekend blasts 21mpg / motorway 27mpg

[Sam.F]

Current car:
2007 MINI Cooper S, averaging about 30-32mpg over a mixture of sitting in traffic in the week and getting hooned around back roads on the weekend. Easily 41-43mpg on the motorway even with AC on and going "normal" speed.

Previous car (now owned by my little sis):
2001 VW Polo 1.0E, averaged about 42mpg even when being driven by my 18 year-old self Basically if you thrashed it you got about 41.5mpg, or if you drove like a saint you got about 43mpg... Over a long journey in that car the time savings of being bad far, far outweighed the cost of the extra fuel!

[Daschund]

Daily hack - Fiat Brava 1.6 automatic.

I am averaging about 30 MPG per tank of petrol (roughly 280-320 miles, depending). Less if I spend more time around town, more if I spend most of it cruising over long distances.

Not amazing, but affordable. I could get at least another 10 MPG average if I was to swap the automatic for a manual.

[bigfoot7]

VW Golf Mk V 2.0 TDI - 45 mpg which includes commuting to work and weekend stuff. I also did a 1700 mile trip through France a month ago which included motorway driving, A roads and a fair bit of scenic stuff through the Alps and averaged 53 mpg.

Caterham 7 1.8 k-series VVC - are you kidding

[Jakdaw]

'05 Mazda RX-8 230 - 18 mpg mixed driving.

Never managed better than 22 mpg for a tank.

[collateral]

306 dTurbo (non HDi) gives about 40ish mpg whatever I do

[Ricky_M]

1999 Ford Focus 1.8 - Do about 300-350 miles per week, averaging 32 MPG, not great at all really. I'd say half of it is constant-ish speeds on NSL roads and dual carriageways. The rest is country lanes and fairly rural roads. Plus I drive for 3 miles every morning to work, then back in the evening.