MG ZS180 Fuel economy?

[TW]Fox;13248355 said:
I think different people have different ideas of what town driving is. I think if they can see buildings out the window its town driving irrespective of the sort of road they are driving on.

To me, town driving is short journeys around a city centre, stop start, from stone cold. Under these circumstances there is no way in hell a Mondeo ST220 would get 27mpg. Heck I only got 25mpg from my 2.0 Mondeo in proper town driving.
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I agree, and when Ive done only town and city centre driving I still get just over 300 miles.
 
panthro said:
you need to get your car looked at! My ST220 gets 340 miles from 60 litres, thats mainly town driving. My impreza got 250 miles from a tank (cant remember the capacity, around 60 litres too).
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I've never had more than 290 out of mine, that was with 10 miles remaining on the trip :o

Neil.
 
Yeah :o

Best on the motorway was 31 mpg, longest I've done in it on the mway is 150 miles and the following town driving pulled it down instantly :p

Neil.
 
-Neil- said:
I've never had more than 290 out of mine, that was with 10 miles remaining on the trip :o

Neil.
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My average is about 300 out of a tank just before the countdown reads 0 miles left. Most I have got is 350 but that was 95% motorway driving.

Glad to read that Neil because I was starting to think mine was pretty bad on fuel but it seems about right.
 
My car must be magic then. I do a 6 mile drive to work and back every day, which is nearly all stop start traffic, once a week on the motorway for 15 miles there and back, and just over to friends houses the other side of town. I run my tank till it reads around 10 miles left on the trip and get 325-340.
 
I have a Rover 75 with the 2.5 KV6.

The book mpg is 18mpg around town, 36mpg on the motorway and a mix of 26mpg.

On brim to brim I get a pretty consistent 26mpg and drive country and short trips on a roads mostly. I did manage to get 31mpg on the motorway sitting at 70. I don't that drive that fast really and if you like to floor it most of the time then you will get around 18mpg like Phate has said he gets.

The trip computer is around 4mpg out on my car.

P.S the sound is awesome though and encourages you to floor it :)
 
Dogbreath said:
Is that what the trip displays though? Have you actually worked out the real number by measuring miles between brimming the tank ?
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I always brim the tank when I fill up and generally run it down to the red line on the fuel tank. Ive never run it dry.
 
panthro said:
I always brim the tank when I fill up and generally run it down to the red line on the fuel tank. Ive never run it dry.
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What I meant was do you reset the odometer when you brim it, and then next time you brim it make a note of fuel quantity and mileage so you can manualy calculate mpg? The trip computers can be very inaccurate on some cars (TDCi Mondeo being the worst I have seen).
 
Usel said:
I have a Rover 75 with the 2.5 KV6.

The book mpg is 18mpg around town, 36mpg on the motorway and a mix of 26mpg.

On brim to brim I get a pretty consistent 26mpg and drive country and short trips on a roads mostly. I did manage to get 31mpg on the motorway sitting at 70. I don't that drive that fast really and if you like to floor it most of the time then you will get around 18mpg like Phate has said he gets.

The trip computer is around 4mpg out on my car.

P.S the sound is awesome though and encourages you to floor it :)
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That is the problem :)

Btw, I got a little shy of 100 miles for £10 on a motorway run last year. It's normally half that with regular short-journey use though.
 
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