Fuel economy - What do you get?

[boxxer]

BMW 118D SE

Bonus is that the road tax is £35 and it's a 2L (199 Turbo Diesel - first of the Efficient Dynamics vehicles and it's proved it's worth - we've done 29000 miles in just over 2 years anduntil prices on fuel started to rocket had saved a packet over my old 1.4 Astra....

Town ~ 40mpg in stop start

Rural ~55mpg depending on overtaking

Motorway @ 70 ~ 65 - 70mpg

Strangely the faster you go (notthat I endores breaking the law) the more efficient it becomes, I've done Edinburgh - Leicester - St Helens - Edinburgh visiting family on a tank and a bit!!

Commuting to work where we do around 300 miles a week we're still looking at a tank almost every 2 weeks

 

[lewis1641]

skoda pick up. mix of pootling and pinning. 30 mpg aprox but its oh so cool

wife's golf cabrio 1.6 25 to 30 depending on how much she lies. sorry, how she drives

 

[Puff]

2004 Vol

MY05 Volvo XC70 D5 SE

40-45mpg depending on foot usage

Not bad for a tank but it has been chipped

 

[JohnH]

Renault Clio 1.5dci (previous shape - lighter 960kg - is it sad that I know the weight of my car? )

65-70mpg. Average. Incredible but true. Only officially supposed to get 60-65. Mixture of country lanes in 4th and 3rd and motorway in 5th. Bit of town driving to tescos and that.

never had less than 600 miles on a 50l tank, and that was down to the south of france at 90.

Renault Clio 1.9D (1996), 55mpg. Same kind of road mixture as Wu. From full tank --> 1/4 tank, about 360 miles.

 

[IDB1]

Don't have numbers to work it out but the truck done REALLY well the other night..

Round trip of about 60miles, with the exception of 20 miles of that (which isn't contiguous) it's country roads and b-roads...
Didn't take the revs over 2k (indicated 50mph in 5th gear) and used less than a tenner..

Mind you, the cars in the procession (with me in the lead) didn't seem overly impressed....

 

[RichT]

Jaguar XKR (4.0 litre Supercharged)

Urban = 12-15MPG
Average = 18MPG
'Long Steady Run' (not clogging it) = 25-28MPG
Wife beating the 'chavs' & B*W's away from the lights = 2-3MPG!!

Best part about it?, the overtaking ability.
It's booked at 30-70 in 4.6 seconds :shock: , hence minimal time on the wrong-side of the road
(in kickdown & 'Sport-Mode' selected)





Ford C-Max (with the crappy 1.8 petrol engine)

Urban = 25MPG
Average = 36MPG

I can get (at least) 5 MPG more out of the 'blue van' than the wife, as I have more sympathetic driving style.
She's one for getting up to speed ASAP/holding it in a lower gear (4th when 5th is better)/sharp braking/etc......




Land Rover Defender 110Td5 County Station Wagon
(now departed <sob!>)

This saw an average MPG (checked on each fill-up, always brimmed the tank) & without fail returned 28-30MPG.

 

[JamesM]

My Leggy does about 26 on average

My boat gets just over 3 at WOT :cry:

 

[hamster]

Sticky stuff water!

My British Seagull 40plus Retro Outboard gets 8mpg pushing an 8 foot inflatable. And it has all of 33 throbbing cc and 3hp.

It's really more of a noise and pollution machine than an engine.

 

[FairfaxPat]

With the '65 I get 8-9 mpg. With the 88 I get 11 around town and 21 on the highway.

 

[JohnH]

With the '65 I get 8-9 mpg. With the 88 I get 11 around town and 21 on the highway.

I visited the website for Jon Stewart's Daily Show a while back, and the pages had adverts from a US car manufacturer (Chevrolet, I think) that were trumpeting the incredible fuel efficiency of their latest model: 30 mpg!

As it was on the Daily Show's website, I thought that these ads were some kind of spoof....