Getting the most miles for your car?

[Jayho]

Hi,

Driving home from Aberdeen on Saturday night (bowling not drink/driving) I noticed that at half a tank i was on the verge of making it to 200 miles!!! i was gobsmacked at how much miles i've gotten... Costs no more than £40 to fill up with Vpower...

My car is due for a service on Saturday, and when i get it back i'll fill it up and see how many miles i can stretch a full tank to (driving like a saint, but still on speedlimits)... I usually get roughly 280 miles per fillup...

I will be posting my score once completed, anyone else is more than welcome to play along!

[Col 666]

MPG? Pah....never worked it out in my life, jump in, drive, empty tank, fill up and repeat

[350zStee]

Thats excellent MPG - I wish my zed could do that many miles to a tank.

Currently I am only getting 230 miles to £85 of V-Power.

[Jayho]

You have got to remember i'm driving a 120bhp/ton 1.5 jap box, which is nothing compared to you guys' 300bhp cars... Although my close gear box means that i'm sitting at 3.5k revs when at 70mph...

[slipstream 1985]

pah, i get 620 miles from a tank!

[istoo]

slipstream 1985 said:

pah, i get 620 miles towing a tanker!

amended that for your Noble statement

[Curry Burns]

Pah I can squeeze atleast 200 miles from half a tank whilst hooning

Currently on 80 miles to an 1/8th

[kmm]

On the Stirling run at the start of May, i managed an average of 20.8 mpg over 220 miles. Still had a quarter tank left. I would have had better mpg if a load of p/headers hadn't ruined my Sunday afternoon drive in the countryside!!!

[More Steam]

Um................... No.


It's not worth thinking about.

[Ian974]

Knocking around 250 miles from a full tank so far, going to aim for 300 before filling up. It's somewhere around 40 mpg on the motorway anyway. Need to figure out properly what it gets around town!

[sherman]

I did seen 14mpg on a last years Highland hoon at one point thats about 140 miles to a tank.

[scotty_d]

£38 of v-power took me 109 miles last fill up think thats about 16mpg was worth every penny

[A.J.M]

£74 of shell's diesel got me 480 miles, was nearly 37mpg so not too bad considering.

managed 525 once and i really want to beat it, maybe my new tyres and transmission bearings will get me past it,

[northo]

350zStee said:

Thats excellent MPG - I wish my zed could do that many miles to a tank.

Currently I am only getting 230 miles to £85 of V-Power.

Try staying off the brakes - if you carry your speed through the corners, you'll use a lot less fuel. I got better than that out of a 997 Turbo on a hoon a couple of weekends ago.

In my experience even Gallardo's, 430's etc will give back 12-15 mpg on a Highland hoon.

I dare say you are enjoying your car though

My Scud vRS (diesel) is great on fuel - a 700 round trip to Tongue last year gave me 38mpg with 4 surfboards on the roof. Travel time to Thurso from Livingston via Dollar was 4:15. Commuting it'll give me an average of 45mpg, and 550 to the tank.

Shame I don't have a proper car any more....

[350zStee]

I mainly use my 350z for daily commuting which is mostly built up traffic, and a quick blast on the motorway and straight back off a mile later. So thats mainly why I get such poor MPG usually.

I've started cycling to work recently, and only use my zed for motorway driving, and the odd hoon at the weekend which has saved me a fair amount of pennies.

I've got 30 mpg on the motorway at 65mph with cruise control on though which is pretty good.

[archangeldk]

On the last PH run I worked it out as mixed driving, and I got back 21mpg haha it's only a 1.6 !!!

[stackofire]

On last run I had around 20 mpg but I really took is steady.
With very enthusiastic driving (or around the city) it goes down to about 8 mpg

[Jayho]

wow! :O quite a response!

I've just filled up my tank, last tank (pre service) has done 312 miles!!! Respectable figure, but towards the end legs i got so fed up of driving like a saint i just started putting my foot down!!! Really upsetting when MICRAS are edging you to go on and your just trundling along...

[Jayho]

After service, spirited driving gets me back 260 miles, average gets 300 miles and saint driving 320 miles! Thats with a 35l tank of Vpower!

[istoo]

ha i got 380 miles out of my last tank... oh hang on its 70 litres...