What MPG does your car get?

3 year old BMW 320i D on a motorway sticking to 70 mph @ 68 mpg urban cycle @ 58 -60 mpg.

Who needs a Pious butter dish when you can drive a BMW?

Xerces Fobe

I have a Hyundai i10 very economical unless you switch the air con on. The air con takes so much power that you can use it to enhance engine braking!

Hmm. My transport has air con, sat nav, crash protection, and average of 30 miles to the litre....

Yes a litre of Isotonic Body fuel will get me 30 or so miles, depending on gradients.

Oh, you mean motor cars! Silly me, the mpb figure was for the Wallis Advance. My Peugeot 307 does around 40mpg on my usual drive to work plus a bit of whizzing around.

My 13yo "new" Xantia 2.1TD estate (owned from new) is 'chipped', goes like stink, and does 48mpg on a run, worst ever in town 35mpg.

And I'm happy!

I'm driving a 2004 Toyota coupe (sold as the Echo here in the USA, Wikipedia says it was sold as the Yaris outside of North America) that does 42 MPG if I'm doing lower-speed (around 50 mph) highway driving and bang-on 40 if I'm doing nothing but motorway, and that's been constant since I got it after a few months and 11,000 miles as a loaner. Over the years, the mileage if I do nothing but city driving has dropped from around 32 to 28.

All of these figures make it an extremely efficient vehicle by American standards. I fear that when I get my next vehicle, I'm going to have to go for something larger and less efficient so that I can actually see over the bonnet of the car next to me when I'm stopped at an intersection waiting to turn.

Interesting to see the variation in mpg out there.

I've never really rated the Prius, I don't think they're all that cheap to run once you factor in the cost of electricity. And they're not all that great economy wise when running on petrol either. A very good example of what technology can do, and hopefully the next one will build on this one and improve it!

DavidH - I would've expected better from that car. A friend had the 1.6l version, same year, and that routinely acheived 34-36mpg. Manual box though - I guess the auto box drags your mpg down a bit. I've just been given an L reg 1.4 manual Astra for free which I'm hoping will achieve high 30ies / early 40ies!

phil - old Mk3 Cavaliers could be tuned to run like that - enormous fun and good mpg to boot!

@whistlekiller - I very very nearly bought either an 850 T5 or a V70 T5... nothing to do with being able to do the same thing at all... ;D

djlynch - if you're using US gallons to work out your MPG, then that's excellent by US standards, and those numbers will be higher if worked out using UK gallons!

My father and I are car enthusiasts. We currently have nine cars in the yard (will be selling a few!). My three:
- '87 VW Polo, 1 litre, about 30 mpg
- '92 Honda Accord Aerodeck, 2 litre, about 27 mpg
- '95 Mitsubishi FTO GPX import, 2litre V6, about 29 mpg

All of which are very good compared with my old Jag (1982 Series 3 XJ6 4.2 straight 6) which used to get about 12 mpg around town and 15 mpg on a run!

What electricity? The Prius isn't a plug-in hybrid is it. All the electricity ultimately comes from the engine, either directly (charging the battery) or via the wheels and regenerative brakes. Hybrids are efficient in stop-start motoring because the engine charging the battery is running at a more efficient speed than runing up and down the revs, and because some of the energy is recovered in the brakes. But on long runs the extra electric gubbins is just dead weight - and there is the non-green cost of making the thing in the first place.

A Yaris my dad has from 2000 consistently does above 70mpg. Yeaaaah.

How did you manage that?!

Oh yeah, whoops.

Toyota Corolla, 2005. An automatic so not so hot. 34 mpg at best, which works out at 18p per mile, or 5.58 miles per pound (I last filled up at cost of £1.34 per litre). Depressing, ennit?

Wellm the reasons as to why we're being ripped off, are obvious and I will not be touching on them here. However, I pay for the huge fuel prices indirectly, deliveries of goods, parcels etc, to my home; the cost is all factored in! And any petrol station I stop at en route to refill the water bottle or buy a choccy bar, I pay there too!

There needs to be decent viable alternatives... sadly, this just ain't gonna happen any time soon, unless certain people get given a huge kick where it hurts. I sympathise for the driver who has no alternative, and therefore has to use a car to get places. When I was in Poland not so long ago, it was just below 5 zl [Zloty] which was about £1.06. So, slightly less than what the UK pays on average, at the time...

My parents Ford focus which they had in early 2009 only seems to get 35 mpg and drinks fuel. Even the older astra which had a diesel engine had much better fuel economy.