least fuel efficient car? nothing 'obscure'

[redstu]

EDLT said:

Probably.

EDIT- It does between 9 and 12 mpg (American) apparently. So its not THAT bad.

Edited by EDLT on Thursday 30th December 18:29

that must also rank as one of the "top" ten ugliest cars ever!

[thinfourth2]

My offroading landrover gets way less then 1Mpg

Mind you so does our petrol lawnmower

[Fleckers]

MG ZT-T SE260

[dave9]

what does the mg do?

no wonder RX8's are cheap look at this one for £3995 with 40k on the clock!
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2300515.htm

[sharpfocus]

Focus ST isn't great.

[otolith]

stackmonkey said:

edo said:

rx8.

+1 for this. Every owner I've spoken to has said mid teens mpg.

Depends. If you live and commute inside the M25, easily mid teens. If your commute doesn't involve traffic, 20mpg is about right. They're (relatively) not bad when driven hard, they just don't get much better when driven gently and stop start traffic is murderous.

[dabofoppo]

My punto Gt does around 15 - 20mpg i think somethings wrong with it though.

[whoami]

I get 12-13 Mpg

[dave9]

whoami said:

I get 12-13 Mpg

in what? the DBS? I remember many moons ago 15mpg in the Vanquish.

[davemac250]

My Impreza used to get 140-200 miles from the tank in everyday use. Motorway commute into Central London.

Which is 12-18 mpg.

It did do 300, once.

But then again it did do 90 several times, but that was on track.

[whoami]

dave9 said:

whoami said:

I get 12-13 Mpg

in what? the DBS? I remember many moons ago 15mpg in the Vanquish.

Yes, in the DBS.

I don't mind as it wasn't really bought for its eco-credentials.

[acricha3]

otolith said:

stackmonkey said:

edo said:

rx8.

+1 for this. Every owner I've spoken to has said mid teens mpg.

Depends. If you live and commute inside the M25, easily mid teens. If your commute doesn't involve traffic, 20mpg is about right. They're (relatively) not bad when driven hard, they just don't get much better when driven gently and stop start traffic is murderous.

I average about 22-25mpg every fill up, nice mix of motorway into and out of London and awful stop start on the way to work (this is what kills it). I can get 28-30mpg on a long run (driving around 75mph (keep it less than 4k RPM is the key!) all the way, boring but doable).

Agreed that the MPG doesn't drop off that badly when pushing it relative to other cars. When I push on I get 16-18mpg. In fact my dads Audi 2.0T gets the same MPG when pushing on as I found out tonight!

[theironduke]

From personal experience...

My old 928 would never, even if driven like a Vicar, get above about 20...when driven with gusto it was just comical, single figures.

My old 4.0 XJS would show 5-6 on the "real time" fuel consumption readout on the computer if it was in sport and given a good caning...

[DanGPR]

Mitsi Evo FQ-400 got 1mpg when it was being fully thrashed round the TG track.

I wouldn't expect any more than 10mpg whilst making any progress in a Murcielago

[whoami]

So are we talking average fuel consumption or instant?

[doug1e1972]

i get 28 mpg average out of my sportka, i think its mad that a 1.6 dont get over 33mpg even if taking it easy

[TRUENOSAM]

I have had a Range Rover supercharged down to 8mpg

[Tsippy]

I think I was into single figures on the RX8 when I did a trackday Generally I could achieve 250-300 miles to 55 litres

[W7NNS]

stackmonkey said:

edo said:

rx8.

+1 for this. Every owner I've spoken to has said mid teens mpg.

Only had mine a month and it makes me cry every time I have to fill up. Last night it cost me £35 to get to Manchester and back - a round trip of just 80 miles. Works out about 12.5 mpg Not helped by Super Unleaded being 129.9 now.

[Herman Toothrot]

Audi A6 2.7T the computer tells me over the last 16 hours driving its managed to average 21.1mpg, thats mostly from my commute which is 14miles of A & B countryside roads and 4 miles through a city, journey time 40 minutes on average. Does make me think that the bigger petrol 4x4's must be horrifically bad real world figures.

My VX220 for the same useage does 31mpg, but this does fall to 13mpg when on track.