How much do YOU spend on fuel / year?

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MarkDavis said:
I was referring to the BMW M54BM engine, not the M54.
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The what?

To be honest I find your crusade against the figures I post (and verify) with an engine you've never owned quite curious. What is your motivation? Did I perhaps bribe the petrol station attendant to give me a fake receipt so I could lie on the internetz or something?

Your head would explode if I told you what I got out of the N53 engine in the E60. Beings with a 4..
 
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MarkDavis said:
M54BM = M54 Blue Motion. A bit like the one in your car :D
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Don't worry, I'm sure one day you'll grasp the basics of Motorway driving and might be able to get good fuel economy too. Until then you can keep rushing up behind the car in front at 80, slamming the brakes on, nailing the throttle back to 80 once they move out of the way and then rubbing your head at your crappy fuel economy figures whilst slagging off people on the internet who've mastered the art of not driving like a prune on a Motorway and are thus rewarded with half decent fuel economy ;)

It really isn't that difficult to drive economically on the Motorway. Just set your cruise to the speed limit and you'll be amazed how far you can go on a tank of fuel when you are not caught up in a race in the outside lane.
 
There's a stretch of the 101 which is 2 lanes for about 30 miles east of Santa Barbara where it is utterly futile to try anything other than just tucking in at 65-70mh with the mass of traffic - the complete lack of any form of lane discipline means that you are guaranteed every couple of miles there is a rolling roadblock of two trucks doing 65mph literally side by side without a care in the world, and the amount of times you see people weaving in and out and doing stupid overtakes only to pass them a couple miles later at your constant speed as they get stuck behind a big truck is quite amusing :p

The weird thing being that when the road opens up to a 3-lane freeway, those 2 lanes then move into lanes 2 and 3, so if you so desire you can burn along at 100mph in the 'slow' lane which becomes completely clear. :confused: Strange folk these 'mericans :p
 
[TW]Fox;20575842 said:
Don't worry, I'm sure one day you'll grasp the basics of Motorway driving and might be able to get good fuel economy too. Until then you can keep rushing up behind the car in front at 80, slamming the brakes on, nailing the throttle back to 80 once they move out of the way and then rubbing your head at your crappy fuel economy figures whilst slagging off people on the internet who've mastered the art of not driving like a prune on a Motorway and are thus rewarded with half decent fuel economy ;)

It really isn't that difficult to drive economically on the Motorway. Just set your cruise to the speed limit and you'll be amazed how far you can go on a tank of fuel when you are not caught up in a race in the outside lane.
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Clear road, no traffic, need to motor on. No point hanging about at 70mph.

Places to go, people to see.

Not that you could get an average of 39mpg in real world long distance journey driving conditions anyway.
 
I'm not sure, all my fuel goes through my fuel card and if I've had a particularly bad year in terms of personal:business mileage then tax code is adjusted which is negligible. Wife pays for her fuel from her business so I don't see what happens there.
 
MarkDavis said:
Not that you could get an average of 39mpg in real world long distance journey driving conditions anyway.
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So you think what then - that I made it all up? That I really got 33mpg and decided to pretend on the internetz that I got more?

Why do you bring this up on a monthly basis anyway? It's really quite bizarre. Nobody else seems to care as much as you do. We are only discussing this now because somebody else with a different car said they got 24mpg over a complete cross-section of driving over the space of 20,000 miles. Bizarre much?
 
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[TW]Fox;20575956 said:
It's really quite bizarre.
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Not really. I always talk about mpg and fuel costs in the context of real world figures and real world driving, not artificial conditions across a limited stretch of motorway with cruise on, half a tank of petrol, aircon off, no traffic, tyres super inflated, boot cleared of junk etc etc. Artificial figures are meaningless and no use to anyone. No x30i gets 39mpg average in real world conditions. It's a simple as that.
 
There is nothing artificial about driving up the M5. My boot always clear of junk and my tyres correctly inflated. I don't sit below the speed limit either.

Your inability to read is infuriating. I always set off on a long trip with a full tank of fuel.
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
I put on average about £45 per week in my car, so its roughly £2300 p/a.

Pretty depressing when I consider my car does not move from Monday Morning to Friday night!

My truck uses around £45,000 of fuel per annum - my employers have around 2500 trucks, I'm, glad I don't pay that fuel bill!!! :eek:

Edit: Thinking about it, it probably uses a lot more than that - I've put 700 litres in it already this week!
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:eek:
 
ive done just under 12k this year, but average mpg is now probably around 26mpg.

12000/26mpg=461.5 gallons=2098 litres @ 135.9p = £2832ish?
 
Across the Focus, Boxster and bike, about £1500 in total (6500 miles ish).

Helps massively that I live 1 mile away from work, and the kids are 10 mins walk from school :P, so all mileage is basically recreational / non essential
 
About £3,700 roughly projecting forwards... but 90% of that I get back from work. :) Do about 27k miles a year.

I don't have a fixed place of work, some days my commute is over 100 miles, some days under 20.
 
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