Worst experience of MPG

[steeveeboy]

I was just wondering what is the worst experience you have had with mpg,
ill start!!
My dads old e39 m5 when he was racing it round bristol, 11 MPG!!!!!!!

[Chris_w666]

I had a Petrol Shogun and managed 8mpg over a 30mile trip

A mate owned a Carlton GSI with quite a few mods and the instant consumption on the OBC once read 1.2mpg.

[pwd95]

Filled my old Discovery 3.9 V8 up on one occasion & it only managed 140 miles!!!!!
Filled it again & it worked out at 9mpg. Used to avarage 14 mpg. 20 on a run.

Haven't done a calc on my current steed but it also feels like it's using more fuel than the QE2.

Edited by pwd95 on Monday 22 March 22:48

[MitchT]

I can't beat those numbers, but I was shocked to see my average mpg plummet from 30 to 19 during the snow. It's back up to 30 again now so obviously it was just the fact that I was going everywhere sideways that was the issue

[Gorvid]

Average of 6mpg in my XJR, over a shortish... slightly eccentric run...

[Alexdaredevilz]

9 mpg on my Volvo C70 doing a fair speed on private motorway

[tinman0]

When my Mustang was at the dealers just before I bought it, I scrolled through the mpg bit during our test drive.

For the previous 38miles it had managed 1.9mpg Federal, so 2.4mpg in real money.

[steeveeboy]

ohhh my god!!!!
i actually thought my dads was bad,
but some of those are really really bad,
the beemer x5 4.4is he has is quite juicy,
i believe on a run which is weymouth to bristol in an hour and a half he averages 22mpg

[Rawwr]

Lotus 340R. 700kg. Scabby Rover K-Series. 9mpg.

[parapaul]

My old Signum (2.8V6) used to return 25mpg trawling up and down the motorway, 20ish around town, and about 12 if really hoofed

[busta]

Rawwr said:

Lotus 340R. 700kg. Scabby Rover K-Series. 9mpg.

Something very wrong there, Shirley?

[Rotary Madness]

About 4mpg in the rx7 on the way from harrogate to scarborough, i wasnt hanging around

[Rawwr]

busta said:

Something very wrong there, Shirley?

Yes a combination of lack of Emerald and driving like a .

[davepoth]

17mpg in my Dolomite Sprint average over a week's commuting. I left rubber at ever roundabout.

In the US I got treated to a ride around the block in my boss' 1970 plymouth barracuda with a 440ci engine (6 barrel carb). He did a standing quarter in that and I think used about a gallon...

[skene]

Good friend of mine can get less than 50 miles to half a tank of petrol in his Golf VR6

[205jsy]

Averaging 8mpg in the Range Rover at the moment.

[Shape Shifter]

1 litre per mile in the Evo VIII 340 on the Ring. That works out at what? 4.5mpg?

[Nickyboy]

I hired this in 2008



One stretch we did 198 miles on 52 gallons. Works out around 3.8 mpg average.

6.8l V10 petrol and about 8 tons

[greggy50]

On a 5 mile hoon around some lanes I managed to get the average mpg down to 15.3 in my fiesta 1.4
Mates dad took us out in a new XFR did around 8mpg if you really gave it the beans probably most juicy car I have been in.

[DP83]

Red-lining most cars usually provides you with some pretty funny MPG figures. I had an A3 1.8T that i could get to show sub-10mpg on the OBC if i was really booting it. This was a car that averaged 29-30 with mixed driving

Quite a few years back, my dad a new Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.7 V8 (2000) as a company car (fuel included...phew) that used to average about 8-9 mpg around town. Medium acceleration away from a set of lights would leave you with about 4-5mpg