Roughly how much would it cost to drive 550 miles

bobert50 · 29 Jan 2008 at 15:39

Bout £60 in mg zr 120+ i'd guess.

VTR · 29 Jan 2008 at 15:45

£180 roughly

Costs around £65 to fill up which get's ~200miles!

(JDM STi Scooby)

eidolon · 29 Jan 2008 at 16:06

I get around 300 miles from £55 of SUL so it would cost me somewhere around £100.

I'd probably get a lot more miles if I did 70mph like Fox's example but I doubt I'd last more than 5 mins before going to sleep at that speed.

eidolon · 29 Jan 2008 at 16:07

[TW]Fox;10994594 said:
45mpg from an MR2 Turbo?

I certainly never got anywhere near that, I rarely got above 18mpg in mine.

L0rdMike · 29 Jan 2008 at 16:13

eidolon said:
I certainly never got anywhere near that, I rarely got above 18mpg in mine.

Even driving at a constant 90mph I still get 30mpg.

jamoor · 29 Jan 2008 at 16:54

[TW]Fox;10994700 said:
But then they send you a bill

Company card my friend, you have much to learn

Defcon5 · 29 Jan 2008 at 17:49

Overlag said:
another rather odd question by ibot... :/

fiesta 1.25 if i drive keeping under 4000rpm (70mph is 4000rpm) i can get roughly 280 per tank (45litres)

I would be expecting 400 miles out of that car

Conscript · 29 Jan 2008 at 17:53

Defcon5 said:
I would be expecting 400 miles out of that car

Good point actually, considering I get 400 with just another 5 litres from a bigger engine and car.

tj86 · 29 Jan 2008 at 18:38

£80 full tank gives me 600 motorway miles

MarkDavis · 29 Jan 2008 at 18:41

About £90.

Probably less, if sat at 70mph with cruise control on and drove like a grandad.

Scania · 29 Jan 2008 at 19:07

tj86 said:
£80 full tank gives me 600 motorway miles

What cars that then?

Dredd · 29 Jan 2008 at 19:15

£150 - 200, thats pushing it motorway miles only.

ste_bla · 29 Jan 2008 at 19:25

Van = At todays price (336miles for £76.odd) £124

Goksly · 29 Jan 2008 at 20:33

I pay just over £1 for 10 miles.... so £60 give or take. Focus 1.6.

Pants · 29 Jan 2008 at 20:38

Roughly £92 in my vRS assuming i'm not hanging around.

Clarkey · 29 Jan 2008 at 20:44

Educated guess of 70, doesn't really seem to make a whole lot of difference if I dawdle or hoon it in my car, only thing which noticably kills the mpg is stop-start city driving.

Tom L · 29 Jan 2008 at 21:05

At christmas, we drove from Aylesbury (Bucks) to Inverness in a Getz 1.1 - it was a new car and was very good on petrol. The journey was exactly 545 miles and we used just over a tank and a half to do it. We were looking at £60-70.

Oh, and we were going around 80-90mph for the majority of the journey.

barnettgs · 29 Jan 2008 at 21:18

Overlag said:
fiesta 1.25 if i drive keeping under 4000rpm (70mph is 4000rpm) i can get roughly 280 per tank (45litres)

Is that on 5th gear?

I had that same car and 70mph was on 3500 rpm. :confused:

Because I know 80mph was on 4000 and 100mph on 5000rpm!

I used to average of around 41mpg on A/B main roads which is actually good.