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Post by antharro on Aug 30, 2011 21:21:41 GMT
Following on from the petrol station thread, in which Art said:
Those of you who drive - what do you have and what (average) mpg do you get?
For those who are unsure how calculate your mpg:
- Fill up the tank full. Zero your trip counter. - Drive until you almost run out. - Fill up the tank full again. - Do the following maths:
<amount you filled up in litres> x 0.22 = <amount you filled up in gallons>
Divide <number of miles travelled> by <amount you filled up in gallons>
The result is your mpg for that tank.
Example:
- I fully fill my tank. - I drive 445.8 miles. - I fully refill the tank. It takes 67.3 litres. - 67.3 x 0.22 = 14.806 gallons - 445.8 divided by 14.806 = 30.11mpg
It's best to calculate your MPG over a full tank as you'll have a wider range of driving experiences. You'll also be taking into an account the weight difference between driving with an empty tank and a full tank - that 60 litres of fuel weighs a bit!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2011 21:36:56 GMT
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?
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Post by rincew1nd on Aug 30, 2011 22:10:02 GMT
Driving back home tonight we managed about five miles per bag of coal.
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Post by phillw48 on Aug 31, 2011 9:03:03 GMT
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!
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Post by SE13 on Aug 31, 2011 17:54:14 GMT
Last car I owned was a Hyundai Accent, I got around 50 to the gallon from that, but with a 1.3 engine it's always going to be decent mileage.
Last car I had was a company car, that did about 35 mpg, but it doubled as a delivery vehicle (Ford Focus)
Last vehicle I drove did around 6 mpg - A Dennis Dart on a City service. (33215 for the bus spotters I think it was - either that or 219)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2011 18:14:43 GMT
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.
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Post by peterc on Aug 31, 2011 18:44:58 GMT
According to the trip computer I am averaging 46.3 mpg in my Nissan Note. That is over several months now rather than for a single trip.
When I first owned a car I expected between 25 and 30.
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Post by rincew1nd on Aug 31, 2011 19:12:15 GMT
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.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2011 19:48:55 GMT
My 'M' reg Astra runaround/ heritage car does IRO 38mpg - it's a 1.4auto. My wife drives the 'big car', a 1996 grey import Toyota Lucida MPV. It's a 2.2 TD, and gets around 25mpg round town and 32mpg motorway driving.
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Post by Phil on Aug 31, 2011 22:10:40 GMT
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!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2011 22:29:12 GMT
8 year old Volvo V70R remapped. Lucky to get 24mpg average but then again, it goes like the clappers. Worth it? In all honesty probably not but I just love having a Grandad looking car that can thrash the hats-on-backwards brigade (in their silly souped up hatchbacks) away from the lights all day long. I'm nearly 47 and I really should know better.
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Post by djlynch on Sept 1, 2011 1:01:17 GMT
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.
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Post by Oracle on Sept 1, 2011 8:14:49 GMT
55 to 61 mpg from our diesel Motability VW Golf Estate...and over 50 from my daughter's petrol '09 Honda Jazz.
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Post by antharro on Sept 1, 2011 19:06:20 GMT
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!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2011 19:26:46 GMT
I've had 42mpg out of my Nissan Micra ('02, 1.0 l) long term - on a 'good' tankful might be up to 45.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Sept 1, 2011 20:41:12 GMT
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! 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.
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Post by Oracle on Sept 1, 2011 21:24:55 GMT
Autocar says that the plug-in UK market Prius is going to be a 2012 model though I know that there is one available in the States.
I can say that I have achieved over 70mpg in my daughter's Jazz, and managed 74 in our Golf diesel...the A36 southbound from Salisbury towards the M27 J2 at Ower with its downhill focus and 40, 50 and 60 speed limits is conducive to low fuel consumption figures! However I managed the VW's figure on the M27 cruising at 60 on the M27. Regrettably it takes a heck of a lot of effort to return such figures and 'real world' consumption is 50s in each case with sometimes 62-63 in the Golf.
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Post by alfie on Sept 2, 2011 10:29:08 GMT
A Yaris my dad has from 2000 consistently does above 70mpg. Yeaaaah.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2011 12:09:55 GMT
I think I'm getting a superb return on my fuel consumption! ;D At least 130 mpg!
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Post by alfie on Sept 2, 2011 15:13:53 GMT
How did you manage that?!
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Post by SE13 on Sept 2, 2011 15:35:42 GMT
How did you manage that?! There's a bit of a clue HERE
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Post by alfie on Sept 2, 2011 16:09:10 GMT
Oh yeah, whoops.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2011 16:21:30 GMT
How did you manage that?! <---- See my avatar! ;D <----
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Post by nickf on Sept 2, 2011 17:23:37 GMT
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?
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Post by jardine01 on Sept 3, 2011 12:05:50 GMT
The petrol prices are a joke around £1.30- £1.40 a litre. When i was in Spain not so long ago they only charged 89 cents for petrol and around 90cents for diesel here in the Uk we get ripped off its not fair.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2011 20:53:44 GMT
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...
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Post by mikebuzz on Sept 4, 2011 18:07:19 GMT
My Rover 200 T reg does about 46 mpg Daventry to London which is a regular trip for via the A5 and through St. Alban's instead of the madness that is the M1. I usually stop off somewhere so we're not talking fully open road. Urban driving seems to be about 35 mpg so not too bad over all.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2011 1:07:46 GMT
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.
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Post by rogere on Sept 8, 2011 18:13:24 GMT
Have a 2006 Mondeo Estate 2.0 Diesel.
Travel Great Missenden to Cowley every day -
In morning go in via Wycombe/Stokenchurch then M40. Return via Thame/Princes Risborough/Prestwood. Round trip is about 60 miles takes about 45 minutes each way, and am currently averaging 55.2 mpg.
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Post by ruislip on Sept 10, 2011 7:50:56 GMT
around town, whether I'm in our SUV or my sedan, 16-17 mpg's generally speaking. On the road, the SUV can get as high as 24 mpg and the sedan sometimes got in the high 20s-low 30s when it was in much better condition than today.
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