Real World MPG

[BOR]

02 BMW C1-200 @ 94mpg exclusively city riding
08 BMW 318i Manual @ 28mpg (long distance + 3 bikes on roof) generally @ 31mpg city/motorway mix.

(Tried an E39 M5 on Friday showing a better-than-expected 23,5mpg)

[300bhp/ton]

Chevrolet Camaro z/28, 2000, 24-26mpg, mixed driving but mostly shortish journeys and plenty of WOT action

[LivinLaVidaLotus]

Lotus, Elise 111R, 2005, 33MPG, Mix of long and shorter (15miles), plus blatting about.

[smart51]

Peugeot 107 1.0 petrol. Used for moderately heavy urban and slow rural roads.

Official combined figure 61 MPG, Urban 51 MPG, I actually 54 MPG and that's with me being careful.

[crofty1984]

N reg diesel golf (TD not TDI)
513.2 miles brim-to-empty (guess how I found that one out at 10.30pm in the rain)
But yeah, 500 to a tank often, so about 50 mpg I think.



Anyone want to buy it?

[off_again]

swerni said:

500bhp Supercharged Roush Mustang combined 23mpg on a run 28mpg
L200 combined 30mpg

Its going to be cheaper using the Mustang soon, rather than the diesel L20

Funny you say that - the price difference between unleaded (not 97/98 RON) and diesel means that there is a 2-3 MPG advantage for petrol. So yes, its utter borderline at the moment....

Daft thing is that the greenies would applaud you for having an L200 diesel yet crucify you for a gas guzzling monster sports car.... madness.

[BlueEyedBoy]

I once got my Cerbera down to 5mpg on a weekend play

BMW 328i Touring 20mpg mainly town driving/school runs by the Mrs, so lots of stop start. Can get up to around 30mpg if driven carefully over a mixture of A and B's

[xjandy]

Sharief said:

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.

I sat at 80 for 2 hrs and got it up to 46mpg on the computor.I didnt accelerate like normal,I freewheeled down hills and didnt brake when cars pulled out, just anticipated and free wheeled.As soon as I went off the motorway it went below the 40mpg mark no matter what I did.I will say ,I have never ever got it up to 40 mpg before!You can fool the trip computor by freewheeling!!

[mackie1]

I find it a little hard to believe that all these hard driven V8s get such good MPG. If all I did was motorway driving I'd probably get high twenties average but around town the Monaro gets 13mpg or so. Plenty of WoT and it goes down to about 9. That said my trip computer says I've averaged 20.9mpg and 31mph since I got the thing. It'll do 28mpg on the motorway in 6th @ 70mph.

[dougc]

2001 Toyota Yaris 1.0l, commute 45 miles a day with a 130 mile each way trip once a week. Vast majority motorway at rush hour speeds. Returns 51mpg if driven 'quickly' where traffic allows, has achieved 60mpg if the speed is reigned in to a steady cruise on longer runs. A tank is 40litres and I've managed to squeeze 430 miles out of it before chickening out after 20 miles of red light.

1991 TVR S3c, driven like I've sat on a wasp, fuel gauge is more of an estimate than a measure. No idea of consumption generally though on a long run to Snetterton with a bit of booting it away from roundabouts I worked out roughly 27mpg which I was quite pleased with.

[rich_vw]

Toyota Corolla TTE Compressor 30.5 mpg over 3000 mile (mainly dual carriage way and odd bit of fun )

[Jonty355]

Ford Cougar 2.5 V6 - 36mpg






Ferrari F355 Spider - ................ 13MPG

[Gun]

1998 BMW 840Ci Sport (4.4 V8) - Mainly town driving with a bit of motorway work etc...

Between 14 and 17 mpg, trip computer is currently showing 15.

[bp1]

BMW 645ci currently used on motorway commute ~ 28.8mpg
Leon Cupra PD wifes commuter 45mpg
300SEL before the autobox went 25mpg mostly motorway driving. Will be on its way to the big scrapyard in the sky to be replaced with a 1993 190e 2.5 diseasel for commuting/station duties this weekend.
BMW 318i Touring (loan car while parking sensors get fixed) same comute as 645 36.6mpg

So to save 8mpg you get to drive a slow rep mobile with a crap soundtrack? No thanks, so looking forward to getting the 6 back.

[Egbert Nobacon]

1999 E38 740 (4.4 V8) Town 18 - 23, Motorway 30-32.

On a recent run to Marbella it averaged 32.7. (1500 miles each way - 90% on cruise control)

Once you also factor in negligible depreciation I find it a suprisingly cheap car to run .

[BigBen]

Mercedes 300SL (107 series) 22mpg regardless of driving conditions / roads. Got it up to 25mpg by being really carefull on the last tank but the boredom / cash saved trade off made it not worth the bother.

Ben

[2fast748]

2001 Alfa 156 1.8 TS 54K miles driven mostly economically with the occasion cleaning out and it never varies from 29MPG.

[onlynik]

Jaguar XKR 2003 28 MPG on the motorway on Vpower 300 mile
18.6 in town on Vpower lots of wee journeys
16 in town on normal unleaded

[gifdy]

Interesting thread :

Audi S4 Avant ; pretty steady at 26-28 mpg no matter how you drive it although managed 32mpg on 'fast' cruise up to Scotland last week.
TVR V8S - no idea, would never want to know !

Was planning to dump the S4 for something more frugal but the figures here show that unless you go for a newer small hatchback there's not a huge amount in it. Anyone have figures for standard petrol A4 Avants ?

[jonmsm]

Citroen c1 (56 plate) petrol. At the moment I am returning about 55 - 60mpg on a regular commute (I do 50 miles each way so its a good long drive) but I have had (during my more skint weeks) alot more from it by being frugal with the pedals and doing the usual tricks. The best I have seen its high 70's. The Sunday times achieved 85.5 in the same car on a long run which I haven't seen yet as I still have country roads to contend with once I leave the A50. Still pretty good though I think for real world economy.. and for once better than what the dealership say it will do (they believe it will do a max of 63mph!). I think the lowest I have had form it was about 45mpg when we drove to Geneva, me and my brother with skis and luggage for those flying ahead of us! Gotta love the frugal 1.0ltr. Who needs diesel.. or hybrid, K.I.S.S. with a little well designed petrol engine:-D

Edited by jonmsm on Wednesday 18th June 11:48