Civic Type R owners and fuel usage

Johnnytoxic · 25 Mar 2010 at 17:28

I've not had chance to post pics of my CTR yet due to the weather been crap.

I'm now realising how expensive to run these things can be. I put in £25 of vpower fuel and done around 130 miles. This was without vtec'in it.

Is this normal? It just seems to drink lots of fuel.

peterattheboro · 25 Mar 2010 at 17:32

Welcome to performance car ownership

mike66uk · 25 Mar 2010 at 17:32

Well, £100 to do 520 miles doesn't sound too bad?

Chris1712 · 25 Mar 2010 at 17:33

Sounds about right for city driving tbh. Can easily be upped by changing your driving style though, I've got my CTS up from 22 to 26mpg city in the last month.

Johnnytoxic · 25 Mar 2010 at 17:35

Chris1712 said:
Sounds about right for city driving tbh. Can easily be upped by changing your driving style though, I've got my CTS up from 22 to 26mpg city in the last month.

how are you working out your mpgs? I'm not missing a dial somewhere am I that tells me?

Chris1712 · 25 Mar 2010 at 17:37

Johnnytoxic said:
how are you working out your mpgs? I'm not missing a dial somewhere am I that tells me?

Sorry I have a trip computer. CTS = Corolla T Sport, similiar cars. Its reading 28.4mpg but its about 2mpg out I find.

You could use www.fuelly.com to track your usage.

aproctor · 25 Mar 2010 at 17:58

Sounds about right.

Dup · 25 Mar 2010 at 18:05

I used to get 200 miles to a tank. You're doing very well so far!

Johnnytoxic · 25 Mar 2010 at 18:06

This fuel usage is a real shock to the system

I've got the power I just can't use it lol.

L0rdMike · 25 Mar 2010 at 18:09

Depends what price you are paying per litre.

beermonster · 25 Mar 2010 at 18:12

That equates to about 29mpg if your paying 1.20p/l for fuel, I would say thats pretty good.

Rackerz · 25 Mar 2010 at 18:34

I get 450 miles to a tank in my Celica VVTLi ('revvy' like a CTR). If you want good miles just change your driving style to get them!

danza · 25 Mar 2010 at 18:52

The best I've ever had from mine is a smidge over 30mpg, without VTEC. I don't bother working out day to day fuel consumption now, because it is by no means high, or anywhere near to 30mpg.

I abuse VTEC when I can, enjoy it, and therefore am happy to pay the price of lower fuel consumption as a result.

antran · 25 Mar 2010 at 18:54

that's about right, I normally fill up £20 worth of super unleaded and get between 100-120 mpg.

iaind · 25 Mar 2010 at 18:56

antran said:
that's about right, I normally fill up £20 worth of super unleaded and get between 100-120 mpg.

120mpg

Mucky_Pup · 25 Mar 2010 at 18:57

I get just under 300 miles out of a tank in the ST normally.

antran · 25 Mar 2010 at 19:01

iaind said:
120mpg

yup, just stay below 3000 rpm

Even thought I own a civic type r, I'm not a aggressive driver.

panthro · 25 Mar 2010 at 19:05

antran said:
that's about right, I normally fill up £20 worth of super unleaded and get between 100-120 mpg.

antran said:
yup, just stay below 3000 rpm

Even thought I own a civic type r, I'm not a aggressive driver.

I think you have miscalculated massively. Not even Jesus gets 120mpg from a CTR.

Dup · 25 Mar 2010 at 19:10

You don't buy a CTR and worry about fuel. I'm **** with money but I didn't waste my cars potential worrying about mpg and never worried too much towards the end of the month.

On a long country run of keeping it in the zone I found I got better mpg than my daily commute over a week. The difference between the high and low isn't that much in £ really and so worth it. Someone did once say that hitting VTEC was like throwing a bag of £1 coins out the window, but I think their was supercharged

J1nxy · 25 Mar 2010 at 19:16

On the drive from j15 - j24 of the m1 today I got 39.5 mpg out of mine. Went down to 36 by the time I got to the office