Mpg

[Scanny]

i wont patronise you by going on about roof racks and not carrying things you dont need etc but you will save fuel by driving properly. Get to know what your car can do. If you dont need to slow down as much you dont need to get back up to speed. Accelerating is expensive. So is changing gear so do it less. The 2 litre will accelerate from 30mph in 5th gear. It wont pin you in the seat but its cheaper than changing down to 3rd. This is assuming you are not in a 30 limit though. 5th is no good for urban driving. Motorway driving is cheap but it can be cheaper. Forget cruise control. Going uphill you can ease off and let gravity slow you down (60 is acceptable) then let gravity bring you back up to speed again going downhill. Base on a test i did in a truck with an auto box i saved a lot of fuel by doing this. The cruise control tries to maintain speed by chucking lots of fuel into the engine. Dont use it on hills

[mesobitchy]

35.7MPG from 393miles on 50liters ...... im speachless!

[Kieran]

35.7MPG from 393miles on 50liters ...... im speachless!

Bloody good going that is for a V6!

[elnevio]

On a couple of occasions, I eked more than 400 miles out of the V6 - mostly motorway driving - but pretty good at around 35mpg. I usually averaged 22-26mpg though on the commute!

[mesobitchy]

not that im a stengy git or anything but im over the moon at that.
now im gonna try an beat it.

[mesobitchy]

im bloody crying here, on my knees begging for mercy!
toped up with a little over 30iters yesterday an alost dyed when i figured out the mpg......

*squeeks*25mpg........ an thats just town driving........ i wanna know were the hell i went an what the hell i did to rack up that many miles in a sodding week!!!

[technique]

i get 60 miles for £20

thats the only way i can explain it

[Kenneth]

Seriously Brad you're about 5 MPG out. Nobody in the UK seems capable of the MPG figures you keep quoting!

I just filled up the Galant (um, full exhaust, intercooler and increased boost) and recorded 25mpg on the dot.

The Galant has never been driven economically, though the trip to and from Brad's may have been ok. I would say 50/50 thrashing / normal driving. That tank served as our "test drive" out in the back roads.

The sickening part of that figure is that it is better than what the Legnum (100% standard) returns.

I wonder if the cusco twin plate clutch helps... Supposed to be light weight.

[bradc]

we did trash it a bit that day, but remember it weights approx 50kg less than the Legnum, and has a longer 1st, 2nd, and 5th gear.

I can't wait to do a long run in my car once we get the longer 5th in it and see what difference it makes for fuel consumption

[The Vee]

Don't forget some of these posts refer to N/A V6's. Just for the record though, my weird and wonderful beast averaged 27mpg over a 1008 mile trip to a little place in Germany and back. That icluded driving very fast round and round in circles out there

[mesobitchy]

topped up the herse last week with tesco water... hey we had 5p off at the pumps.

well 374miles..... 55liters bang on..... 30.9mpg (shell)

just got to see what the tesco water returns at......

[mesobitchy]

tescos water did susprise us....

38mpg at 477miles


mainly motorway.

[bradc]

Thats pretty good You must drive like me

[miller]

Thats pretty good You must drive like me

what? Parked up?

evaporating fumes does not count towards mpg

[mesobitchy]

LOL!!!

drive like an old granny..... yeah most of the time.


we are trying hard to get a 4 at the start now
tho on the wa home from bristol other night i slowed right down to 50mph on the m4, the fule light had come on an the net nerest petrol station was about 15miles away! eeeep. lol
i love pushing it, damn that sounds rude, lol!

[Atik]

Just thought I'd share some fuel consumption experience now that I'm driving manually...

This one was last week and I managed to get to 260 miles and the gauge was just under a quarter when I filled up.


Next pic is a 'work in progress' shot of me trying my best to reach a milestone...


Next pic, I've hit the best I've managed...


Over 300 miles on a full tank and no fuel warning light.

The best I managed when my car was auto was 293 and that was some 20miles with the fuel warning light shouting at me!

[Nevman]

I got about to 300 miles / tank on my trip to Poland last year. Motorway only with 100 octane V-power only.

Normal city / motorway / and a bit of heavy foot on occassions and I get between 150 - 170 miles when the warning light comes on.

[angie.m.c]

not sure of the mpg but from a full tank to the fill up light coming on i get about 300 miles (mostly short town trips).

[Kieran]

not sure of the mpg but from a full tank to the fill up light coming on i get about 300 miles (mostly short town trips).

That's about right for a V6 on the town run.

[elnevio]

Forgot to mention on my earlier post in this thread, that I managed 501 miles from the V6 once - and filled up with about 61 litres, and had averaged about 37mpg!

Funnily enough, about five years ago, I also managed to get 501 miles between fill-ups from my Lupo. Although that was from just 28.5 litres of diesel! So a mere 79.8 mpg! Was only a 34 litre tank though...