Poll: What's your MPG?
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[TW]Fox;20511042 said:
No, @ 70 its doing just under 2k, @80 around 2.5k.
I'm one of them, I used my trucks average, as I drive it far more than my car.
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[TW]Fox;20510879 said:Mine is 2500rpm at 70.
I would want 50+ mpg to make up for having a 1.6
Mines is around 2300 and its not even a 1.0 petrol!
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Not really, particularly the smaller cars.
Modern aftertreatment is starting to hurt MPG and then the price of the systems will drive the price up. Nothing to stop petrol going a similar route but atleast that avoids urea additives.
EU6 emissions also (at the moment) only dictates particulate size for Direct Injection cars, so we may see GPF (Gasoline Particulate Filters) appearing on some cars.
If I leave the trip computer all month it averages etween 55-60 in general depending on how many unusual journeys I've done that month. Can get 63 on the work commute (mostly straight B roads for 35 miles, with just a handful of villages & and juncitions).
Not bad for a 08 plate 1.8TDCi Focus imho.
Not bad for a 08 plate 1.8TDCi Focus imho.
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Haven't kept track recently but it was 32mpg last time i checked, mostly short journeys though.
Sorry for being dim, but what do you mean "modern after treatment" and hurt what MPG?
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Sorry exhaust gas after combustion.
Ie. DPF, Diesel Oxidation Catalyst, low pressure EGR systems, Selective Reduction Catalyst for the Urea Injection.
We'll still see efficiency improve, just not quite what they could be due to emissions.
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21.9 over the last full tank.
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I can get 49mpg if i drive like a granny from my 1.8L petrol engine.
As little as 31mpg if I drive it like I stole it.
27mpg - Saab 9-3 1.8t (Hirsch 195bhp remap) - about 60:40 mix of city and 'A' roads with tons of traffic lights and roundabouts. Can get about 38mpg with 100% motorway only driving (70mph on cruise, with no slip roads, no traffic jams, no leaving the motorway etc) but that sort of driving is as dull as anything.
Also got about 27mpg on my BMW 323i (170bhp) with similar sort of driving.
Also got about 27mpg on my BMW 323i (170bhp) with similar sort of driving.
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And to think you'd have heated arguments with me about why I was such a liar for claiming such figures were possible..
[TW]Fox;20517369 said:
What I said was that your 39mpg is not a real world figure, in the same way that my 38mpg is not a real world figure either because I don't live on J2 of the M1 and my journey doesn't consist of driving to J10 at a constant 70mph. Real world mpg figures consist of accelerating / decelerating, joining the motorway, leaving the motorway to have a p***, a burger (though preferably not at the same time) and getting to where you're actually going - unless of course that's J10 of M1.
I usually average 47-48 MPG out of my 1.9CDTI 150 Astra.
Deffinatly agree with the misfiring tractor with aids though
I assumed your figure did consist of that?
My 39mpg was an engine start at beginning of trip to engine shut down at end of trip figure. You don't get more real world than that. What you mean is that it isn't a typical day to day average - which I completely agree with - it isn't.
But it's very real world because for everyone making occasional long distance Motorway treks is part of the real world.
Frankly the long distance economy of my car means more to me than the economy anywhere else. I don't give a stuff what I get around town and on the way to work because I do perhaps 200-300 miles of around town/on the way to work each month. 15mpg, 20mpg, 25mpg, it's still sod all really.
What I value is the ability to do a 500+ mile round trip on a single tank of fuel at a sensible cost. New Years Eve I drove from Inverkeithing to Plymouth via Worcester without needing to faff around getting ripped off at Motorway filling stations, or diverting to find a Sainsburys, or anything like that. This sort of thing appeals to me far more than whether I fill up around town once a month or once every 3 weeks or what.
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Of course I top it up with diesel - just an old habit to call it petrol as all my previous cars have been petrol! I put a post-it note on the lever you have to pull to open the filler flap to remind myself
[TW]Fox;20517874 said:
You must live at the top of steep mountain then, 500 yards from the motorway, with no obstructions, which must allow you to start the engine, coast downhill to the motorway in neutral with the momentum having taken you straight onto the motorway at 70mph at which you must engage cruise, which takes you all the way to your Great Auntie Mildred's House, which must be located actually on the roundabout straight off the motorway 10 junctions further down...
I know a couple of people with or have had 530s and neither of them get anything close to 39mpg in a door to door long distance journey.