What's up with this!

Ive just come back from a family trip, 680miles from £80 (49.5mpg) in a 1.5 ton 1.8 petrol. BMW :D 0-60 in 11.6 seconds as well. but a lot more torque :D

I get 35mpg pottering around town :), I was considering a mazda 3 at one point too before i got me bmw last month. your calculation says I was doing around 53mpg so its in the ball park of my trip computer saying 49.5 so guess its right :)
 
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benskia said:
Hi.
I'm quite drunk at the moment, so this could be wrong:

£20 / £1.32 (per litre) = 15.15 litres of fuel put into tank.
77 miles / 15.15 litres = 5.13 miles per litre
5.13 * 4.55 (litres in a gallon) = 23 mpg

Maybe what you would expect for some kind of performance petrol engine.
Would be disappointing to pay that much and drive like an 80 year old.
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That's my thoughts on it.
 
Buchanan0204 said:
35-43? is that MPG? Or how many miles for 20 quid?

I'm sure it's going to be amazing, and as you say. The mazda is boring as hell. The ZX6R on the other hand, well...
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sorry didnt specify! Thats MPG,

Depending on how you ride though, I usually get around 140miles to 14/15ish litres from my tank
 
daz87uk said:
Ive just come back from a family trip, 680miles from £80 (49.5mpg) in a 1.5 ton 1.8 petrol. BMW :D 0-60 in 11.6 seconds as well. but a lot more torque :D

I get 35mpg pottering around town :),
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This posts seems wrong in every way. The main one being I cannot think off the top of my head of a 1.8 litre BMW that weighs 1.5 tonnes, unless it's a really old 518i but I doubt that.

Next, 50mpg average and 35mpg round town from a petrol BMW? Sorry, but no. Either your trip computer is broken, you've got a big imagination or your idea of 'around town' doesn't match most others. 35mpg around town is about what I've managed to get out of the latest ED 320d's!
 
You probably still have the best part of gallon left in the tank when you're putting in your next £20.
 
My fiesta probably has the same, if not worse 0-60 time, but I can fly down the m27 at 110 miles an hour according to the gps :) (disclamer only done once at 04:00 in the morning) not bad for a 10 year old 1.25

edit: I get about 175 ish miles from about £25 which is half a tank of mainly motorway driving
 
to be fair everything the OP has said just points to him owning a 1.6 Mazda 3 thats working as everyone elses does.

He either needs a more economical or a faster car. For me 30MPG means i would be wanting to shifting along at a fair old pace. Otherwise you can go slowly with a lot better MPG out of other cars.
 
[TW]Fox;19629585 said:
This posts seems wrong in every way. The main one being I cannot think off the top of my head of a 1.8 litre BMW that weighs 1.5 tonnes, unless it's a really old 518i but I doubt that.

Next, 50mpg average and 35mpg round town from a petrol BMW? Sorry, but no. Either your trip computer is broken, you've got a big imagination or your idea of 'around town' doesn't match most others. 35mpg around town is about what I've managed to get out of the latest ED 320d's!
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well I might have guessed the weight I just checked its 1450Kg, but i filled up when I got there and it used £45 and the trip was reset when I started my journey, the fuel figures typed into mpg calculation show 53mpg roughly :) it is a E46 316 1.8 2002 petrol so not the most powerful thing in the world but it cruizes at 70mph on a flat and the active needle was showing 55mpg :) no lies here it does 33 to 38 around @ home and I live in cornwall so no motor ways and only an incomplete duel carrage way so mostly a/b road driving :).
 
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Silences the engine? :P Other than the quietness of it, it is a pretty unremarkable, unefficient and powerless engine to be honest.
 
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