Real World MPG

[chris_w666]

2006 Fiesta ZS tdci - last 4 weeks, 54.7 mpg mixture of twisties, long motorway and town driving (2000 miles ish)

Currenlty reads 62.3 over the last 112 miles, mainly to work and back.

Once managed an indicated 71.2 over a 200 mile journey involving heavy motorway traffic, 50-60 mph max and town driving.

Edited by chris_w666 on Wednesday 18th June 00:14

[964Cup]

Cough...

8.4mpg

Just under 69p per mile.

I'll get my coat.

[xtruss]

BMW 318i Touring Auto (2002 so 2.0 ltr engine) - Mainly shortish (10 mile) journeys around town and A roads about 25mpg, go on motorway and sit 0.8ish leptons and its about 34mpg.

Mazda 323 1.8 school run and very small trips approx 3 miles - Does about 29mpg

[ZeeTacoe]

collateral said:

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

306 DTurbo 1998 - normal driving 43mpg. thats M60 M56 at rush hour to north wales
-Track day to london and back 45.8mpg. thats constant cruise of about .8 leptons and a days worth of cone dodging.

[drivin_me_nuts]

E39 M5. around 24mpg

[anonymous-user]

95 Golf GTi, silly mileage on the clock. Now getting approx 28mpg on a 40 mile motorway commute (80 leptons).

Top Fuel Dragster - 6-7 gallons per 1/4 mile run...

[Toecutter]

2002 Focus 1.8TDCi - 71K on the clock - 22 Miles round trip 5 days a week, average 50MPG thats with Air Con on, also includes several overtakes each day as well. Best I ever got was 61MPG on a trip to Bristol and back on the M4, sat at 65mph.

Edited by Toecutter on Wednesday 18th June 06:59

[smallgun]

SLK350 (54plate)
14 mile round trip to work and back 26-28mpg
2000 mile round trip to Italy in May average 32-33mpg best day 35mpg

[NST]

54plate focus 1.8 115 TDCI (80K): 99% motorway driving and keeping it below 85mph but alot of the journey is 50-65mph which helps bring the mpg up. normally returns around 48-50mpg.

XK : according to the trip is showing 18.5mpg, but filling up and calculating by hand shows 20.8mpg that is 80% town driving.

Edited by NST on Wednesday 18th June 07:48

[Dave^]

The other half's 350z (the 'old 280bhp model) is doing the same 7mile each way to work and back as me, with an average of around 23mpg.....

on a run to Silverstone a few weeks back, using cruise control, i got an average of 32mpg over 300mile return trip! and i wasn't hanging about apart from thru the 5miles of 50mph roadwork limits.....

[Nuova500]

52mpg day in day out - 2008 Fiat 500 Pop 1.2 Petrol

[off_again]

mike_1985 said:

2007 lexus rx400h gets about 28-30 mpg in london a bit heavy footed ( the heavier the traffic the better it does) my mum gets 32-36 mpg but thats no over the speed limit on the road , mway gets 36mpg

That's interesting...

With my RX300, its the town driving that is the killer and really drops the average. On A-roads I get around 30MPG and motorways around 28MPG. In and around town with free-ish traffic and its about 22MPG. Stop start with congestion and its 20 or less....

Thankfully I don't drive in or around a major city and hence my overall average is 27MPG. Overall I am pretty impressed by this as its not a small car and the 3.0 engine with an auto is never going to be economical.

Good to see that the Hybrid offers something, in this case better economy around town - which is always the killer with big engine cars with automatic gearboxes. Deffo consider the hybrid come a couple of years.

[anonymous-user]

renault clio 1.2 16v on 52 plate. constantly averages 48mpg regardless of the journey. did about 51 mpg on a long motorway trip to sheffield last year and around towns and built up areas it gives back about 46mpg.
have noticed i drive a bit more conservatively recently, changing at 3-4K rpm etc. still cant argue with 48mpg and its not a diesel.

have driven a few hire cars recetnly for motorway trips and generally unimpressed with the mpg, parrticularly the ford tdcis, plenty of go, but thirsty engines...

[Rob 7]

Mondeo ST tdci 2.2 turbo 2006 44k on the clock.
Running to work and back motorway and London town driving 35mpg
On a run motorway 43mpg.

[AntiguaBill]

95 honda crx del sol 1.5 vxi 39.6mpg average, 5 mile commute when it rains.

03 toyota mr2 40mpg 20 mile each way commute on d/c + 'summer convertible use'.

[anonymous-user]

2007 Passat 1.9Tdci (yawn, but well put together & quiet)
Average 49Mpg. 62.5 Mpg on 75 mile motorway commute yesterday!

[illmonkey]

Mini cooper S 35.3 average over 2 weeks. 500 miles.

First week we got it, considerbly lower! 20mpg

[_daveR]

Megane R26 (2.0T) 29mpg but up to 36mpg on a Motorway run. Only got 1000 miles on it though so I am expecting this to improve.

My old Clio 1.2 (55 plate) used to get 42mpg and that was not really trying. Could hit 50 if I tried.

[kambites]

Lotus Elise S2 111S: About 37mpg average when commuting (about 4.5 miles of suburban and country roads); 45-50mpg at motorway speeds; 25-30mpg when pressing on. Manufacturer's figure is 41mpg which sounds about right to me for an average (relatively gentle) driver.

Of course the problem, is that every journey ends up being twice as many miles as it should have been.

Edited by kambites on Wednesday 18th June 08:42

[scorcher]

Corsa 1.3cdti,used for work(2 miles each way)rarely does more than 15miles in one trip.Checked it last night when i topped up for the impending fuel shortage again and it had achieved 64mpg over 205miles