How many miles does your car do to £20

55miles, Ford Scorpio Ultima Cosworth, town commute.

My ebike does 6200 miles on £20 of electtricty ;-) (6pence per 18.5mile round trip commute).
 
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Got 110 miles yesterday from my Corsa 1.2 before the fuel light started flashing. Town driving and putting my foot down anywhere I got the chance. Will probably do round 130-140 driving like a nun :)
 
Costs about £65 to fill my car's poxy little tank up from near empty and this gets me 350 miles. So £20 for my usage is about 107 miles.

However, I do mostly motorway driving and about 50,000 miles a year. Someone else with the same car would see different results when mainly doing town driving. It's not a particularly useful comparison without knowing the driver's driving style and also the type of roads they typically drive on. Same goes for mpg figures too to be honest.
 
acemastr said:
81.7mpg.... no you don't :)

*edit* working on assumption of 1.459 a litre, if it's lower the mpg goes higher
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Didn't actually work it out myself, two of my last five fill ups were partials not 'brim the tank' so that may have skewed the figures. I average about 69 mpg though :D
 
Dogbreath said:
Fox is not being pedantic, he's quite rightly pointing out that measuring fuel consumption based on a fixed monetary value of fuel is utterly pointless. Not only do fuel costs vary significantly across of the country, but £20 only gets you about 3 gallons of fuel. How you you accurately determine when this 3 gallons has been used if you always fill the tank up?
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getting bored with the fox fanboys now so last reply to posts like this.

shut up.
 
OK lets think. Lifetime mpg since I got the car is 46.4. Take the inverse - that's 0.02 gallons per mile. Divide by 0.22 - that's 0.09 litres per mile (bearing in mind I'm not writing down every decimal place). Multiply by £1.399 for how much petrol cost me today that's 13.7p a mile. £20 divided by £0.137 is 146 miles.

But then I've had anywhere between 38 mpg to 55 mpg for a tank. So somewhere from 120 to 172.

It's a Honda Insight 1.3 ES by the way.

But seriously - what a daft question. Peoples' replies are going to vary depending on when they answer. MPG is a daft way to measure fuel costs too but anything that's distance/volume gives (e.g gallons per mile, litres/100km etc) is directly proportional to cost. Take 1 and divide it by your mpg and job's a goodun. You have a value to compare that is has a linear relationship with cost.
 
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Gtiracer said:
getting bored with the fox fanboys now so last reply to posts like this.

shut up.
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Dogbreath a fox fanboy? That's hilarious. :D

How about being a fanboy of 'logic'? You are basically asking people to give a random number, what's the point?
 
104 miles in my Octavia vRS

Remapped, Cat back exhaust and panel filter. Everything else is stock.

Driving style - slow and steady 9:00-17:00 with the occasional blast out of business hours :p
 
I've been allowed south of the border for a few days so now have a spectacular hire car to sdd to this list. I have what I think is a focus 1.6 econetic diesel. Can only go by the trip computer which currently says 47mpg (this was from before I picked it up so no idea what type of driving, though given its a hire car....) and diesel is about 1.48/l here which makes it go about 140 miles to your 20 quid.

Edit, moved the rest of this its not relevant here
 
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Rover 214... I know £25 gets me about 130 miles, so £20 will be probably 100-110. This is village driving though, 7 miles either way to work, 3 miles or so between mum and dads houses and the trip to the gym 3 days a week + occasional pub trip or town trip.
 
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