MPG

[SILICONE KID]

Just worked out my MPG by filling up doing 51 miles and re fill to the brim.

3 cold starts
4 maybe five quick blasts and i mean quick
50% town driving 30mph and stopping at traffic lights
50% slow cruising 40 t0 60mph country roads no hard driving

(18.5) mpg is this poor and how much better should it at a steady 60 may be 70mph..

can`t beleive it used 12.5l of fuel to do 51 miles.. Cost me £16.73 that is crazy

Its killing me !

[Ant.]

SILICONE KID said:

Just worked out my MPG by filling up doing 51 miles and re fill to the brim.

3 cold starts
4 maybe five quick blasts and i mean quick
50% town driving 30mph and stoppoing at traffic lights
50% slow cruising 40 t0 60mph country roads no hard driving

(18.5) mpg is this poor and how much better should it at a sready 60 may be 70mph..

can`t beleive it used 12.5l of fuel to do 51 miles.. Cost me £16.73 that is crazy

Its killing me !

Thought you said it did 40 to the gallon, make your bloody mind up.


Have you thought about having an eco map?

[neal1980]

Maybe those 339 horses have got something to do with it

Is it your daily driver or weekend toy??

[Dr Mike Oxgreen]

My 450, completely standard as far as I know, just did 24 mpg on the way up to N. Yorks, and that was mostly cruising at 85-95 leptons with the aircon on. I reckon that's bloody impressive. That said, I also see 17-18 mpg on a mixture of cold starts, traffic queues and the occasional fast blast.

My wife and I were both amazed at how totally un-tired we felt after 4:30 hours' driving, compared to how we would have felt in the Ibiza. The Chimaera is a seriously good, comfy mile-muncher!

[dbv8]

Most of it comes down to your driving style.
I had over 26 mpg out of mine as an experiment when i first bought it. ie driving 'normally' no silly speeds and accelerating gently.

I was late to get York one morning and used nearly a full tank over 130 miles. Approx 12 mpg.

[JonyTVR]

cold starts and throttle are bad and 51 miles isn't really much, what if when you filled up 1st there was an air gap in the tank somewhere which then got filled up the 2nd time? need to do it over a full tank a few times to get a good average. only time I measured mine was on a trip back from swansea to the midlands and managed a whopping 31mpg out a 430!!! after that I dare not do a 'proper' test, ie not just motorway driving

[Chris71]

Shortly before it died I noticed I was having no problem getting 250-odd miles from a tank from my 500. Haven't done the sums to see what that equates to, but it's a lot more than it produced hooning around the lanes back home!

[dbv8]

Chris71 said:

Shortly before it died I noticed I was having no problem getting 250-odd miles from a tank from my 500. Haven't done the sums to see what that equates to, but it's a lot more than it produced hooning around the lanes back home!

Over 20 at least.
Depends how low you ran your tank, ie how many litres to refill?

[lesstatt]

Ant. said:

Thought you said it did 40 to the gallon, make your bloody mind up.


Have you thought about having an eco map?

Yeah i was going to say that, remember you saying it was 40 odd last year

[dbv8]

I reckon he got that 40 in the opposite direction to the latest test.
Therefore take an average of the 2 trips.

[mgjc]

I've charted my fuel consumption since I bought my chim in july 2009.

I'm averaging now 18.9 mpg and that is after 8630 miles and 2077 litres of fuel.

I can safely say that if all my driving was in 5th gear and on motorways between 70-90 I'd average 25-27 mpg easily.

[captain slow 82]

SILICONE KID said:

Just worked out my MPG by filling up doing 51 miles and re fill to the brim.

3 cold starts
4 maybe five quick blasts and i mean quick
50% town driving 30mph and stopping at traffic lights
50% slow cruising 40 t0 60mph country roads no hard driving

(18.5) mpg is this poor and how much better should it at a steady 60 may be 70mph..

can`t beleive it used 12.5l of fuel to do 51 miles.. Cost me £16.73 that is crazy

Its killing me !

If you have to worry about your MPG I suggest you buy a Prius!

[scotty_d]

Pah thats good my Cerb cost me £78 to do 175 miles around 14mpg on last fill up well worth every penny.

[lestershaw]

i get more out of my bmw 850, 19 mpg with a 30 mile trip to work and back, m11 and a406 no traffic in the morning and lots of traffic on the way home, but i get less out of land rover on same trip AND that is allowing for the lpg, its about 16-17 mpg. But i have done same thing every week since i was a youngster, fill my car up on a friday night when i got paid no matter how much it costs and i can go anywhere and do anything as long as i had my wheels :-)

[Nosh]

Filled mine up on Saturday (forgot how much that was).

Went out for some nice drives over the weekend, mostly driving in a spirited manner and don't know how many miles....

....fuel gauge now reads 3/4's full...

When it gets to half, and / or the yellow light comes on under cornering, then I will fill up.

When my bank account is empty, and I cannot afford to fill up, then I will wait until payday and the cycle starts again.

Morale of the story - buy one of these cars and MPG should never be a consideration....

...takes ALL the fun away!

OK, I am off to hoover the carpet - my dog (English mastiff) didnt fit on the parcel shel, but dang we give it a try!!!

Nosh

[scotty_d]

You have a fuel light on your Chim?

[Chilliman]

Everyone knows they don't have low fuel lights.. It must be one of those yellow cornering lights !

[.Mark]

scotty_d said:

You have a fuel light on your Chim?

I think the early cars had fuel lights. My 1996 doesn't.

Mine does MPG too, not many, it has BHP, GGP, RWD, not bad for a TVR.

[TV8]

It's all about how you use it.

I have a old V8 Triumph that i just took on a 24hour non-stop rally type thing. In the very hilly twisty roads around Yorkshire the worse tank full was 135 miles. Overnight arounds some very quick A roads 320 miles for a cheaper fill-up.

You have a very quick car. Most people don't buy them for economy

[itiejim]

You can't expect an accurate reading when dispensing so little fuel and 50 miles hardly gives you a chance to get an accurate vision of "average use" either.

You really need to run a few tanks through to start to see what your typical fuel economy is.