R53 MCS - fuel economy round town and RFL?

[AC43]

Hi R53 MCS owners what MPG do you see round town? I'm assuming low 20's in stop start? It's not massively important as it will probably only do 1,500 miles a year. But I'm curious.

Also, what's the RFL for a 2006 MCS? Again not a deal breaker, just interested.

Thanks

[mon the fish]

Not sure on town mpg, I would guess low to mid 20s. I've always got early 30s on average, and I've done nearly 80k in mine.

£295 a year to tax, my 550 Maranello is cheaper

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mon the fish said:

Not sure on town mpg, I would guess low to mid 20s. I've always got early 30s on average, and I've done nearly 80k in mine.

Thanks

mon the fish said:

£295 a year to tax, my 550 Maranello is cheaper

Excellent stat :-)

[Challo]

I only do short trips and mine is low 20's. On a Motorway cruise I can get it upto near the 30 mark

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Challo said:

I only do short trips and mine is low 20's. On a Motorway cruise I can get it upto near the 30 mark

Thanks. It's replacing a Clio 1.6 which barely scrapes above 24mpg so that's fine.

The mileage is so low that it still goes weeks between fillups.

[mneame]

Don't really look at the mpg side of it, but about 220 miles to a tank from full to fuel light around town and about 300 miles on a run. I run mine on SUL and the last time I brimed the tank it cost me about £50.

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mneame said:

Don't really look at the mpg side of it, but about 220 miles to a tank from full to fuel light around town and about 300 miles on a run. I run mine on SUL and the last time I brimed the tank it cost me about £50.

Thanks

[0llie]

2 laps of the Ring worked out at practically 1/3 of a tank of fuel. So driven very hard, it's worse than my Range Rover Classic.

I don't do any commuting mileage in mine, so when it gets driven it gets driven fairly hard. 17-20mpg is the norm during B-Road driving, stop start in town and reasonably sensible driving will yield 22-24mpg.

These figures above are based on having a 15% pulley installed, seems to make a 3mpg differece pretty much no matter how you drive.

[CarsOrBikes]

Mid to high 20's if in town but depending how driven there. No point in belting around, but in the open fast A roads and B it's high 20's and around 30 on motorway, but more on steady A road, then on track it goes in slurp mode. 255chp sticky non rft's etc.

[sk15kev]

Our R53 JCW just seems to drink a tank in under 200 miles.
I was getting worried it had something wrong, but obviously sounds like a familiar story.

[fivepointnine]

I've only have my MCS for a week, but I am seeing 30mpg+ on slow B road and village driving.

[Leins]

sk15kev said:

Our R53 JCW just seems to drink a tank in under 200 miles.
I was getting worried it had something wrong, but obviously sounds like a familiar story.

I think I've yet to get more than 230 miles out of a tank in mine

[CarsOrBikes]

Mine will do over 300 on a tank, if under 200 something is probably wrong.

[mark seeker]

I am in the minority to here, I've covered 2.5k miles in mine in the last 6 months, this has mostly be covered on M roads/A406 and I'm seeing an indicated 37.6mpg using Shell Nitro. I did a fill to fill test and the reality was closer to 33mpg, still fairly good.

RFL is £295, not ideal!

I heartedly recommend the R53 myself.

[pdavison]

I have a very easy (mpg wise) commute as most is 50mph average speed but I'm getting circa 330-350 miles to a tank and it costs an average of £48 to fill up. This averaged to 34mpg over the last 6 months and includes a good few 'fun runs' at the weekends.