most economical car?
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My average is 49mpg (basically £9-10 per 100 miles) with the Fiesta 1.4 diesel and most of that is going through town or going town to town, very little dual carriage way or motorway driving. The book figure is 70mpg or something so guess you'll get 60's if doing longer journeys.
It's mostly town driving, and I have a heavy foot.How are you managing that!? Should be well into the 40s, surely. A friend used to have a 150 PD Golf and didnt hang about in it, he was averaging high 40s
Put it this way, I spend about 10 hours in the car a week and I only go about 2-300 miles.
I'm putting in 60 litres and going 500 miles.
However, as it's currently awaiting repairs I'm using my dad's 525d auto. 26 MPG average
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Remember I have 4wd. The book figure for urban cycle is 35 MPG, against almost 40 MPG for a 2wd Leon.
(Mixed cycle is 44 v 50)
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Problem your having here is that you have a reasonably heavy car for a paltry 73 bhp to pull, the quoted figures are 41mpg, but the 1.6 has quoted figure of 40mpg.
I would even stretch to a 1.8 that quotes 37 mpg it will be much less effort to drive and probably return similar mpg to what you have now without having to rag the engine for simple over taking and up hill situations.
I would even stretch to a 1.8 that quotes 37 mpg it will be much less effort to drive and probably return similar mpg to what you have now without having to rag the engine for simple over taking and up hill situations.
I was getting similar figures from mine including some mid 60's on really long journeys. that was before i squashed it between two lorries!!
Agreed with most I read, a relatively big car for a small engine, but dont think diesel is always best, compare Toyota Aygo 1.0 petrol vs the diesel version!
Surely life is not all about fuel efficientcey but what size/spec of car you want!
Most model ranges have a rather dull "eco" model, decide what car suits you and do the economics, I personally prefer whatching the speedo rather than the fuel level
Surely life is not all about fuel efficientcey but what size/spec of car you want!
Most model ranges have a rather dull "eco" model, decide what car suits you and do the economics, I personally prefer whatching the speedo rather than the fuel level
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It really does surprise me, how many people choose cars on mpg figures alone and probably colour 2nd.
When as shown above by iaind that a difference of 15mpg with an avg of 10k miles is appx £425 a year, you would lose more than this in changing cars, money spent on tax, mot and recent servicing just to make a change to a more efficient car, admin charges for insurance amendments etc.
People have become obsessed with MPG now it's no longer 'interesting' to talk about how much money they think they made on the house price.
Talking of swapping a perfectly good car for the sake of even £20 a week is madness for what you lose buying and selling. I'd rather wait the natural course until my car needs changing, rather than just for MPG.
Talking of swapping a perfectly good car for the sake of even £20 a week is madness for what you lose buying and selling. I'd rather wait the natural course until my car needs changing, rather than just for MPG.
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To answer the question.
Mine.
In reality as alluded in this thread it depends on what you do with the car etc. I assume this is your only car for a start?
Is fuel a big enough portion of your take home pay that you should really be caring about stuff like this?
Mine.
In reality as alluded in this thread it depends on what you do with the car etc. I assume this is your only car for a start?
Is fuel a big enough portion of your take home pay that you should really be caring about stuff like this?
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I was just under the impression it should be better and given a 1.4 in a focus might be underpowered for the car i was just thinking about dropping down a car size given we're already up to 118p a litre locally.
i'll shut up now.
lol
i'll shut up now.
lol
I can ensure you its not.
if you want economy get one of those lupos with almuminum engine that was a special edition with a 1.2l engine does like 68 mpg IN TOWN, it also has a dsg gearbox.
just looked it up its called a lupo 3l tdi (3 litres per 100 km) does 0-60 in 14 seconds and that aint half bad for a car that does liek 80+mpg on a motorway
heres a link with more info if youre interested
http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/printer_319.shtml
but in my opinion unless you get something like that theres no point changing car purely for economy
just looked it up its called a lupo 3l tdi (3 litres per 100 km) does 0-60 in 14 seconds and that aint half bad for a car that does liek 80+mpg on a motorway
heres a link with more info if youre interested
http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/printer_319.shtml
but in my opinion unless you get something like that theres no point changing car purely for economy
