Your best, average and worst miles per tank thread...
Your best, average and worst miles per tank thread...
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sixty

Original Poster:

91 posts

166 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Just for lols, biggrin

Car...
Year...
Engine...

Miles per tank + comments
Best
Average
Worst


Pints

18,451 posts

221 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Fuelly results:
Best: 43mpg
Avg: 37.1mpg
Worst: 35mpg

MX-5 NC 1.8

vit4

3,507 posts

197 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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1991 Vauxhall Astra 1.4 mk2 (4-speed)

Best: 47 mpg (3-up, fully loaded. Pretty chuffed with that! smile)
Average: 41 mpg
Worst: 23 mpg (Just passed my test, so I was a tad enthusiastic. Car was running rough too to be fair, first time I worked it out hehe)

Fuel gauge is a bit random so tend to fill up after 350 miles or so to be safe.

TameRacingDriver

20,463 posts

299 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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First tank on 350Z... not that bad, but pretty thirsty compared with previous cars.

£93 of V-Power (roughly 65 litres) - 320 miles. Approx 23 MPG. It seems to do ~ 30 MPG on a run, and 25 on the way to work and back.

Worsts:-

Eunos Roadster RS-Limited with MP45 supercharger, power card, no extra timing tweeks, running low boost - 17 MPG. Average = 25 MPG. High = 34 MPG. Average and high were without SC BTW. It would never achieve those figures with it on without the timing tweaking properly.

Renault Sport Clio 182 - 22 MPG on a Pistonheads run. Average = 28 MPG. High = 38 MPG.

Integra Type-R DC2 98-spec - 20 MPG on a Pistonheads run. Average = 25 MPG. High = 35 MPG.

Skoda Fabia vRS - Standard - 25 MPG. Average = 38 MPG. High = 56 MPG.

VW Golf GTI Mk2 8v - Standard - Worst = 25 MPG. Average = 32 MPG. High = 38 MPG.

Nissan Primera GT - Worst = 22 MPG. Average = 28 MPG. High = 38 MPG.

Toyota MR2 Turbo - Worst = 15 MPG. Average = 20 MPG. High = 25 MPG (think it was broken).

BMW 328 E36. Worst = 20 MPG. Average = 25 MPG. High = 30 MPG. (Could have got more, but meh).

A900ss

3,312 posts

179 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Well I thought it said miles per tank rather than mpg so.....

2012 520d auto

Average - 650 miles
Best - 690
Worst - 570 (with roofbox on)

Number 5

2,761 posts

222 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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E350 CDi

Ave 36 mpg

Best 44 mpg

£115 (ish) to fill usually about 600 miles depending on what type of journeys

997 Turbo

£75(ish) to fill which is worth about 200 miles...... But it's a fun 200 miles biggrin

Baryonyx

18,266 posts

186 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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TameRacingDriver said:
Toyota MR2 Turbo - Worst = 15 MPG. Average = 20 MPG. High = 25 MPG (think it was broken).
I don't know about that. My MR2 averaged about 22-23mpg without hanging around, and far less when pressin on. But on dual carriageways the short 5th gear worked to destroy the fuel economy. It was great at overtaking in 5th as at 70mph you were sitting at the base of the torque curve the turbo was about to create. A little squeeze of the throttle would spool the turbo into high boost and you'd be away. I drove from Newcastle to Wetherby and back the first weekend I got it and it seemed like I used most of a tank, I had to fill up at the BP garage at Wetherby services for the return leg!

TameRacingDriver

20,463 posts

299 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Baryonyx said:
I don't know about that. My MR2 averaged about 22-23mpg without hanging around, and far less when pressin on. But on dual carriageways the short 5th gear worked to destroy the fuel economy. It was great at overtaking in 5th as at 70mph you were sitting at the base of the torque curve the turbo was about to create. A little squeeze of the throttle would spool the turbo into high boost and you'd be away. I drove from Newcastle to Wetherby and back the first weekend I got it and it seemed like I used most of a tank, I had to fill up at the BP garage at Wetherby services for the return leg!
Glad its not just me then, but I got told many times that it was "broken".

DonkeyApple

68,892 posts

196 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Car...: OverFinch Classic LSE
Year...: 2005
Engine...: 5.7 SBC

Miles per tank: 130ish
Best: 16
Average: 6/7
Worst: 4

Great car. My local Esso chap claimed I was paying his son's school fees.

RikZR

677 posts

176 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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MG ZR 105
2003
1.4 K

45ltr tank

Average : 280ish miles
Best : 350 miles
Worst : 200 miles

Not sure what the mpg is but on average I'm getting between 40 to 47mpg smile

Jasandjules

72,425 posts

256 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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TVR Chimaera
Best: 27
Worst: 8
Average: No real idea, around 24 (TBH I don't want to know)


Number 5

2,761 posts

222 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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DonkeyApple said:
Car...: OverFinch Classic LSE
Year...: 2005
Engine...: 5.7 SBC

Miles per tank: 130ish
Best: 16
Average: 6/7
Worst: 4

Great car. My local Esso chap claimed I was paying his son's school fees.
4!

Brilliant laugh

Rostfritt

3,098 posts

178 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Audi 80 2.8 Quattro 1992
average fillup 55L
Best:400 miles c.34mpg (endless roadworks)
Average 300 miles 25mpg
Worst 170 miles 15mpg (in about 90 minutes)

Last one was entertaining, you could watch the needle move.

rallycross

13,731 posts

264 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Evo 8 MR with some tuning upgrades was doing 5 mpg on track, after one top up of very expensive on site fuel I decided to fill up again at Shell, but ran out of petrol between Bedford Autdrome and Bedford even though I had put a can of fuel in before leaving the circuit, to go and buy more fuel. Not sure what the range was probably 50-60 track miles from a 10 gallon tank.

Otispunkmeyer

13,732 posts

182 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Not tank values but mpg, probably more useful.

Car : 2006 Civic 5 door
Engine: 1.8 i-VTEC

Best: 43.2
Worst: 28.4
Avg: 34.9

Could easily have something with more power and a better sound and still not be that far away from those figures I reckon. Mostly town driving sees low 30's regularly.

Spanna

3,737 posts

203 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Also a bike, Honda NTV 650:

Best: 70mpg. Motorway and dual carriageway riding, not taking my time though.
Average: 60mpg.
Worst: 48mpg. Went around a lot of fun twisties on that tank smile

Worst mpg in a car I've driven was my mum's 4.4 Range Rover. I borrowed it for a day, it averaged 11mpg.

Rick101

7,168 posts

177 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Best 34.68
Avg 32.05
Worst 28.97

Actuals over 2000 miles.

Jaguar S-Type 2.7D

DonkeyApple

68,892 posts

196 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Number 5 said:
4!

Brilliant laugh
I've seen that sort of number before after track days but this was just the week day commute through a bit of London for a couple of years. biggrin

Cruising at the weekend on the motorway I'd be able to get just over 15.

dowahdiddyman

965 posts

238 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Many years ago my better half had a 3ltr Granada, used it one week to go to work, filled it before I went on the Monday and it was in the red by Friday morning, basically a grand total of app 110 miles on a tank.

P Nuts

1,209 posts

166 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Fiat Seicento 1.1
A tenner would do me roughly 70/80 miles 30 quid practically filled the tank up and would see me for a good couple months easy.

2.5 BMW 323i
20 quid does me 144 miles, but i fill up again after 60 miles