Civic Type R EP3 mpg

[Gutless vvti]

Hi folks,

I am considering an EP3 Type R for around the £3000 mark, with 100,000 or so miles on the clock, my only concern at this point being their fuel efficiency.

I will be doing a mixture of fast A roads and crawling traffic, 5 days a week.

What mpg have owners had from experience?

Simon

[IrrElephant]

Mid to high 20's. You may get low 30 on a run, but it will never ever be classed as 'frugal'

[rb5er]

There was a thread on this a while ago, will try and fund it later. I tgink most people averaged around 26mpg

[Gutless vvti]

26 mpg just isn't high enough. I may as well get a Saab 9-5 Aero, 50 more bhp and vastly superior midrange grunt. I just want something that can be described as 'rapid', but won't break the bank with fuel costs.

[Baryonyx]

To be honest, it's not the kind of car for creeping along in traffic on A roads. You'll never see its sublime side whilst you're sitting there going nowhere. Fair enough if you were going to be flying down B roads on the way to work.

The Saab will not be a MPG wonder (and they're not particularly fast, even in Aero and HOT spec), nor do they handle very well but it will be comfier than the Type R which sounds like something you will appreciate.

[Gutless vvti]

Baryonyx said:

To be honest, it's not the kind of car for creeping along in traffic on A roads. You'll never see its sublime side whilst you're sitting there going nowhere. Fair enough if you were going to be flying down B roads on the way to work.

The Saab will not be a MPG wonder (and they're not particularly fast, even in Aero and HOT spec), nor do they handle very well but it will be comfier than the Type R which sounds like something you will appreciate.

Not very fast off the line, but aren't these Saab 9-5 Aero's surprisingly quick 40-70 mph? I remember Clarkson describing it as "faster than a 911 Turbo from 40-70". Needs to be taken with a pinch of salt though.

[Tripe Bypass]

30mpg on the motorway, 20-22 everywhere else. Had one from new for a few years.

[lauda]

I regularly got over 40mpg out of mine on longer runs (over 400 miles from a tank was not uncommon for motorway driving). I get 25mpg out of my 350z according to the trip computer and do roughly the same number of miles on a tank of petrol as my EP3 did, the only difference being that the 350z is £90 to fill up and the EP3 was more like £60.

As long as you don't spend your whole time chasing the vtec zone, I always thought that the Civic was relatively frugal for the performance that was available.

[Animal]

I averaged 27 mpg over the 18 months I had mine.