Real World MPG

[matt21]

2005 Cooper S over 31,000 miles of mixed driving, not that much in town but plenty of track days + lots of commuting 31mpg

1994 525 Touring 29.4mpg over 12,000 of mixed driving.

my 2003 Cooper over 42,000 miles did 37.1mpg

1992 Escort over 11,000 miles did 40.4mpg

others i used for a few months but driven in a spirited fashion, say over 1k were:

2007 Astra 1.6 34mpg
2005 VW Touran 1.9 TDI 47mpg
2002 530d 41mpg
2004 Focus 1.8 TDCI 45mpg
2006 X3 3.0d Auto 33mpg

Fairly impressed with all this as I dont hang about, helps that I live in the countryside so dont have that much town driving.

All properly worked out, not via computers.

[Dave^]

as suggested earlier, i decided to make a 'wiki' thread on this subject, so it can be updated rather than having loads of pages to trawl thru....

please enter your data into the wiki...

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


Thanks

Dave^

[xjandy]

For those of us of a challenged nature,How?

[Dave^]

Click on the Link in the above post....

Click 'Update this Article'

Copy the blank line at the bottom....

| |---||---||---||---||---||---||---||---||---| |

Create a space where your car should go....

| |Land Rover||Range Rover||1996||4.6L Petrol||-||-||11.2||16.4||N/A| |

| |Lexus||RX300||2005||3.0i||-||-||22||28||N/A| |

and paste the copied line in there.....

| |Land Rover||Range Rover||1996||4.6L Petrol||-||-||11.2||16.4||N/A| |
| |---||---||---||---||---||---||---||---||---| |
| |Lexus||RX300||2005||3.0i||-||-||22||28||N/A| |

Then ammend the blank line to suit your car stats.....


| |Land Rover||Range Rover||1996||4.6L Petrol||-||-||11.2||16.4||N/A| |
| |Lexus||IS200||1999||2.0l Straight 6||Petrol||Manual||150||26||34||N/A| |
| |Lexus||RX300||2005||3.0i||-||-||22||28||N/A| |

(all without spaces.... - for the formating)

[mikey-r]

350 mile weekly commute:

'03 Focus Tdci with 112,000, mainly dual carriageway, 58 mpg. Best ever was 61!

80 mile weekly commute (Mrs):

'04 BMW 320d with 77,000, all stop start, 38. mpg

[ATM]

I just started my own thread and now I've found this. I'll copy my stats into here.

http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?t=549...

[ATM]

E65 730d 2003

I took this snap of a strange Fiat and luckily it showed the mpg on the screen.

I had travelled to Southampton from Birmingham and stayed over night. On the way back I used some cross country B roads as the A34 by Oxford was snarled up. I made use of the Sat Nav – ie no idea where I was going. Probably ended up going much further and taking a lot longer but preferred to boring queues.

Here is a pic which shows the display:
Dist travelled - 299
Consumption - 40.9
Speed [Average] - 50.0

All in all not amazing but real world driving in a Big car without really trying to be economical.

[ATM]

Merc E220 cdi auto 2007

The car automaitcally resets the trip every morning. Today I went to the gym and then drove to leeds. The trip on the motorway was taken slowly as I was very early so about 60 mph. When I arrived in Leeds just off the motorway I took this snap.

Dist travelled - 38
Consumption - 52.7
Speed [average] - 47

[Frik]

Nasty. How did you roll it?

[Athlon]

Lexus LS400, driven to and from work (10 miles each way, 6 on Mway) and weekend tootling ave on computer is 27.4, pretty good from a 4.0 V8.

[Uncle John]

Honda 2 litre iVTEC CRV, real world I struggle to get 28MPG.

Pretty sh - it IMO given the supposed techno wizadry.

Looking at a VAG diesel again now the govt are taxing all petrols to death.

[fluffnik]

ATM said:

E65 730d 2003

I took this snap of a strange Fiat and luckily it showed the mpg on the screen.

124 Coupé - can't be many of those still around.

[fastcaterham]

Hmm reading all this is making me a bit worried. I've only ever one worked out exact mpg on a joruney and it was on a very enthusiastic drive back from uni in a 1.25 fiesta. Managed just over 30 mpg. Its supposed to do like 47. Generally get around upper 30's in normal driving but thats still a good 10 mpg off what the official stats say.

[dincee]

Hi All,

I have got a Toyota MR2 MKIII. On a run down to Southampton on Monday wanted to find out the MPG. I brimmed the tank, did 102 miles there and back refilled the tank with 11 liters and averaged 42 mpg - quite surprised.

Dinc

[ATM]

fluffnik said:

ATM said:

E65 730d 2003

I took this snap of a strange Fiat and luckily it showed the mpg on the screen.

124 Coupé - can't be many of those still around.

Looked good.

http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?t=461...

[juansolo]

My commute is about 50/50 motorway/a-roads.

1993 Merc 190E 2.0 manual, 35mpg (will see 38 on long motorway trips!).
2005 MX-5 1.8, around 32ish as I tend to drive that harder. Will do 35 if I behave.
2004 Westfield Zetec 2.0 (standard ish engine on TBs and Emerald management, around 165bhp), 40mpg on a run.

Some of my older cars were not quite so frugal:

2005 Impreza WRX 2.0 (completely standard), 25mpg. 'worse' if being a hooligan.
Westfield Cosworth SE 2.1 (on DCOEs, ancient Weber ignition, ludicrous cams, etc), 17mpg and dropped into single figures when playing. Sounded f**king awesome though and spat fire on down changes. God I loved that car.

Edited by juansolo on Saturday 21st June 08:20

[ian fewtrell]

Toyota Celica, always 35-40 mpg.

[Redlake27]

BMW E60 530d Mainly 25 mile A road commuting 34mpg - At 70mph with cruise on 41mpg
Lotus Europa S Blasting around 24mpg - On the motorway: 30mpg
Ford Focus 1.6TDCi Urnan stuff 42mpg - On the motorway 56mpg

[Nano2nd]

been averaging 35-40 in the Astra 1.8 Twin Top - mostly commuting on 70 mostly motorway round trip

in the Z4M Coupe doing the same run same speeds about 26-27MPG

quite reasonable for those cars i would say

i'm my 2002 TDI 1.9 POS Passat i got 44-46 - which in comparison is pathetic! considering the price of diesel these days the extra £1.5k i paid over a petrol, it simple isn't worth it!

[peterperkins]

kambites said:

Hybrids can be done purely for fuel consumption reasons and it can work extremely well, the Insight being an example of this - it's still the most efficient mass produced car ever (by some margin) and it's nearly ten years old.

Just got back from Hols 10 mins ago, two weeks trundling around the A & B roads of Southern England, Isle of Wight and Pembrokeshire. Real world Insight dawdling consumption below! Probably never went over 60mph on whole trip. Pretty hilly in Wales though that knocked it down below 100 mpg



About 18 gallons or 82L of V Power, call it £100 at 1.20p/l

I will be upgrading my Insight battery pack to a 40ah Lifepo4 one of 10X the capacity with a grid charging facility. I hope to crack 150mpg on next holiday with much more use of electric motor. There's a novice trackday at Coft in October as well, intention is to have a run out there as well.

Back to work wednesday