XJR V8 OWNERS MPG

[POORCARDEALER]

Whats the most miles you have seen from a full tank? (1998-car


Great car but the tank is a bit small for a GT car imo.

[__G__]

270 miles... Not had it long though and I drive like a mentalist.

Edited by G on Sunday 16th November 20:56

[groomi]

Motorway miles, driven like a fairy = 350 miles tops.

Around town, racing scoobies from the lights = 150 miles.

Typical average = 300 miles.

[piquet]

just to compare:-

I have the x350xjr averages around 25mpg with a mixture of around town, on a run on the motorway 28-30mpg ( depending on speed, 70 is 30) if you're willing to live with the shame of driving at 55 it will do 35-36 mpg

it means on a long motorway round trip i've got 420 miles from a tank

[groomi]

piquet said:

just to compare:-

I have the x350xjr averages around 25mpg with a mixture of around town, on a run on the motorway 28-30mpg ( depending on speed, 70 is 30) if you're willing to live with the shame of driving at 55 it will do 35-36 mpg

it means on a long motorway round trip i've got 420 miles from a tank

Much better obviously, but out of interest, how big is the tank? The X308 is 80 litres.

[POORCARDEALER]

Thanks gents............got 310 from the wifes the other day...interesting regarding the aluminium car as i think it might be the next car I buy her, although she isnt as keen on the looks.

[plasticpig]

POORCARDEALER said:

Whats the most miles you have seen from a full tank? (1998-car


Great car but the tank is a bit small for a GT car imo.

An XJR is a performance saloon not a GT. The giveaway is the four doors. The XKR which is a GT has an even smaller fuel tank.

[piquet]

groomi said:

piquet said:

just to compare:-

I have the x350xjr averages around 25mpg with a mixture of around town, on a run on the motorway 28-30mpg ( depending on speed, 70 is 30) if you're willing to live with the shame of driving at 55 it will do 35-36 mpg

it means on a long motorway round trip i've got 420 miles from a tank

Much better obviously, but out of interest, how big is the tank? The X308 is 80 litres.

sorry i had to go look it up, it's 85L with a 7.5L reserve, i know at the worst of the petrol prices it cost me just over £90 to fill it and has now dropped down to a much more respectable 65 but it varies so much being such a big tank that filling it up because it's in it's last 1/8th can make a big difference compared to driving on empty and using the reserve, i actually think it shows empty and a 0 miles range before it uses the reserve, i normally fill it when it says it's empty and get maybe 75L in

[POORCARDEALER]

plasticpig said:

POORCARDEALER said:

Whats the most miles you have seen from a full tank? (1998-car


Great car but the tank is a bit small for a GT car imo.

An XJR is a performance saloon not a GT. The giveaway is the four doors. The XKR which is a GT has an even smaller fuel tank.

A GT to me is a car which you would use to cover vast distances.

[piquet]

POORCARDEALER said:

Thanks gents............got 310 from the wifes the other day...interesting regarding the aluminium car as i think it might be the next car I buy her, although she isnt as keen on the looks.

the trick is to get her into it, see if you can arrange a proper test drive of one, ideally over a weekend, everyone i know who has ridden in it or driven has loved it. I promised to lend a friend a car for a wedding he was going to with his wife, i said he could borrow any car, the elise, the e-type, the xjr, he choose the xjr apparently it was the hardest thing he's ever had to give back and he's still looking for one

it is the last of this design, the new one will be totally different, much bigger and much more expensive it's planned to take the 7 series and s class head on and be much more like bentley.

I'm not sure how i would improve it, maybe make the sport button also lower and stiffen the suspension. The air suspension is great and wafts, but sometimes when you're having fun more feedback would be nice. I've driven both the latest 7 series and S class but i'd take my jag anyday.

I'm just waiting to see what the outcome of the pre budget statement on road tax is going to be next week if they decide to back pedal on the retrospective nature of the increase, if it stays how it is i'll change my car to the last of the 350s and then wait for the new version either next year or 2010

[groomi]

POORCARDEALER said:

plasticpig said:

POORCARDEALER said:

Whats the most miles you have seen from a full tank? (1998-car


Great car but the tank is a bit small for a GT car imo.

An XJR is a performance saloon not a GT. The giveaway is the four doors. The XKR which is a GT has an even smaller fuel tank.

A GT to me is a car which you would use to cover vast distances.

Indeed. A Grand Tourer in the traditional sense was something like a 4.0L Bentley with full four seater bodywork - and in the absence of tilting seats, I'm fairly sure they would have had four doors...



Unfortunaltey I'm at work and can't google for images to check.

[plasticpig]

groomi said:

POORCARDEALER said:

plastic pig said:

POORCARDEALER said:

Whats the most miles you have seen from a full tank? (1998-car


Great car but the tank is a bit small for a GT car imo.

An XJR is a performance saloon not a GT. The giveaway is the four doors. The XKR which is a GT has an even smaller fuel tank.

A GT to me is a car which you would use to cover vast distances.

Indeed. A Grand Tourer in the traditional sense was something like a 4.0L Bentley with full four seater bodywork - and in the absence of tilting seats, I'm fairly sure they would have had four doors...



Unfortunaltey I'm at work and can't google for images to check.

The use of GT wasn't prevalent until after World War II. What you are referring to is a car with a touring style body from the era where the likes of Rolls Royce etc only supplied the drive train and chassis. The coach builders such as Hooper or Mulliner built the bodywork. The terms are in no way synonymous.

Edited by plasticpig on Monday 17th November 16:22

[Lancs Jag Boy]

I've got agree with Piquet here, my X350 does 25mpg all day long, with "firm" driving and a mixture of motorway and round town work. Ali is the way to go..

piquet said:

just to compare:-

I have the x350xjr averages around 25mpg with a mixture of around town, on a run on the motorway 28-30mpg ( depending on speed, 70 is 30) if you're willing to live with the shame of driving at 55 it will do 35-36 mpg

it means on a long motorway round trip i've got 420 miles from a tank

[NST]

my XKR 4.0 with the wife driving gets around 20/21mpg with 70% A-road an 30% town driving. I usually get round 25-26mpg on motorway runs when 'flowing' with the traffic. can quite easily get 27/28mpg if keeping it below 80mph and thinking ahead. got a couple of 400miles from 60l (30mpg) if the speed is kept at NSL and traffic is clear (not often!). imho the tank is to small for the kind of car it is. hooning around sub 16mpg.

i would have thought the XJR 4.0 would be close maybe off by 1-2mpg to the figures above.

NST

[Cecil]

I get 19Mpg no matter what I do, 4.0 XJR, 250 miles to the tank, never really seems to change, I kept the B trip for the last twelve months and the averages were the same as the A which gets reset more regularly, seeing that I had used just over 400 gallons of fuel in twelve moths was quite sobering