Which car has the greatest range?

[ChocolateFrog]

My V70 used to show an indicated 1150 miles on fill up. Most I managed was 800 though.

[CHARLESBERG]

biggbn said:

Rob 131 Sport said:

I had an E60 BMW 520d (great car) back in 2007 and that would regularly do 600 miles plus on a tank even when fully laden on European holiday jaunts.

That's no good for me. I need to be able to do 800 miles on a tank without stopping...am I doing this right?

Where’s the laughing reaction button when you need one!

Let me guess, you’re completing that journey every other day too?

[Krikkit]

At gentle motorway pace my W211 used to do 45mpg and an 80 litre tank, in theory over 900 miles of range. When you filled it up it used to say 1000 miles (optimistic!).

[ChocolateFrog]

A diesel Landcruiser with a 160 litre extended range tank is probably close to the real answer.

[biggbn]

CHARLESBERG said:

biggbn said:

Rob 131 Sport said:

I had an E60 BMW 520d (great car) back in 2007 and that would regularly do 600 miles plus on a tank even when fully laden on European holiday jaunts.

That's no good for me. I need to be able to do 800 miles on a tank without stopping...am I doing this right?

Where’s the laughing reaction button when you need one!

Let me guess, you’re completing that journey every other day too?

Towing a horsebox. Uphill. In simultaneously very hot and very cold conditions.

[T6 vanman]

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Maybe not breaking the 1000 mile per tank but

Averaging 100.31mpg over 8,387 miles and only filling up 9 times

[Gordon Hill]

biggbn said:

CHARLESBERG said:

biggbn said:

Rob 131 Sport said:

I had an E60 BMW 520d (great car) back in 2007 and that would regularly do 600 miles plus on a tank even when fully laden on European holiday jaunts.

That's no good for me. I need to be able to do 800 miles on a tank without stopping...am I doing this right?

Where’s the laughing reaction button when you need one!

Let me guess, you’re completing that journey every other day too?

Towing a horsebox. Uphill. In simultaneously very hot and very cold conditions.

EV 's not been mentioned for 20 posts and you're getting withdrawl symptoms?

[biggbn]

Gordon Hill said:

biggbn said:

CHARLESBERG said:

biggbn said:

Rob 131 Sport said:

I had an E60 BMW 520d (great car) back in 2007 and that would regularly do 600 miles plus on a tank even when fully laden on European holiday jaunts.

That's no good for me. I need to be able to do 800 miles on a tank without stopping...am I doing this right?

Where’s the laughing reaction button when you need one!

Let me guess, you’re completing that journey every other day too?

Towing a horsebox. Uphill. In simultaneously very hot and very cold conditions.

EV 's not been mentioned for 20 posts and you're getting withdrawl symptoms?

Man, you're mistaking me for someone else. I drive a rattly old diesel. Was just having fun on a lazy Sunday. Have a wonderful day

[miroku1]

Gary C said:

and some with crap mpg have small tanks

My EVO V would do about 150 miles to a tank when pushing on.

My Evo VI did 8 tanks of fuel in one day whilst nipping to Slovakia , so maybe discount that also

[biggbn]

Being serious for a moment, my Volvo S80 D5 manual used to manage huge distances on a tank, cruise set @60mph. Can't remember how far but remember being astonished, it bear other cars by several hundred miles.

[Gordon Hill]

I reckon that I could do South Yorkshire to South Dorset and back on a tank in the E280 cdi if I tried, problem is that the long stretch of M5 is so boring that I give up and just want to get it over with.

[GordonGekko]

What a strange question.

The answer lies, in my opinion, upon how the car is driven.
I had an Audi A3 1.9tdi-e which could do just over 100mpg average; however, it took hours and hours of patient and persistent slow driving - which is really boring and takes forever!

That car did over 1000 miles every tank, but the circumstances of its use enabled that.
Unfortunately it got smashed up.

How much do you value your time versus the cost of fuel (cost difference between fast and slow)?

In May I’m visiting Monaco for the classic GP and going via a town in east Germany. It will be time restricted since I don’t get any holiday pay so guess what - it will be swift pace at the expense of fuel consumption since my time is more valuable than fuel.

[BricktopST205]

My Saab 9-5 Aero would do 38MPG on the continent. A brimmed tank is about 80 litres although i never ran it that low but we would get 550-600 without filling up which is a pretty good for a petrol full of people.

[Purosangue]

ChocolateFrog said:

A diesel Landcruiser with a 160 litre extended range tank is probably close to the real answer.

we used armoured LC in Iraq they weighed in over 3 tons V8 , I think the tanks were over 80 litres they ran around 10mpg from record

[RGG]

Candid Camera, circa 1960's - black and white tv (I may be wrong on that)

A modified mini pulled into the "petrol station"

The attendant, "yes" begins to fill the tank and it goes on forever.

The mini had been modified and had been fitted with a massive fuel tank.

Anyone remember that one?

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Not record breaking or anything like...

....but last year I was amazed when we drove from Nottingham to Aix en Provence in the missus' Golf. We only had to stop once for fuel. (We did it in the TVR one time & filled up I think five or six times )

[MB140]

Surely the answer here is poppopbangbangs Porsche 996 with his extra long range tank in the frunk the answer.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...


Does help that he designs, builds and maintains older F1 cars with more modern engines in them as driven by the lad who lost his legs in f3 and now commentates on F1 every now and again.

[biggbn]

RGG said:

Candid Camera, circa 1960's - black and white tv (I may be wrong on that)

A modified mini pulled into the "petrol station"

The attendant, "yes" begins to fill the tank and it goes on forever.

The mini had been modified and had been fitted with a massive fuel tank.

Anyone remember that one?

Sure I seen it done with a bubble car of some sort...

[CanAm]

biggbn said:

RGG said:

Candid Camera, circa 1960's - black and white tv (I may be wrong on that)

A modified mini pulled into the "petrol station"

The attendant, "yes" begins to fill the tank and it goes on forever.

The mini had been modified and had been fitted with a massive fuel tank.

Anyone remember that one?

Sure I seen it done with a bubble car of some sort...

It was a BMW Isetta IIRC. No self-service in those days, of course. Jonathan Routh said to the attendant, "I left the engine running. Do you think it's using petrol faster than you're filling it?"

[IanH755]

Its an interesting question because it combines more than just "what has the highest MPG" as it also has to include "what has the biggest tank" into that too. So for example my 65mpg Citroen C1 has great MPG but a tiny 35L tank, and my RS6 has an 80L tank but just 23mpg. Then nowadays it also has to include EV Hybrids too which widens the questions even further!