Mpg

[Atik]

Haha, loving the stats from the Lupo, Nev. I'd buy one just for the fuel economy... not!

Anyway, this last two weeks I've been hitting the mileage pretty hard. I always keep a track of my fuel and miles, so here are the last few runs I managed...
FUEL - Date - Litres - Gallons - Total - Per litre - Miles travelled per fill up - MPG
Shell/Vpower 25/01/2009 42.16ltr 9.27gl £39.17 £0.929 247.80 26.72mpg
Shell/Vpower 07/02/2009 44.70ltr 9.83gl £43.31 £0.969 239.00 24.31mpg
Shell/Vpower 11/02/2009 43.64ltr 9.60gl £41.85 £0.959 250.50 26.10mpg
Shell/Vpower 15/02/2009 29.24ltr 6.43gl £28.04 £0.959 126.00 19.59mpg
BP/Ultimate 17/02/2009 41.90ltr 9.22gl £43.95 £1.049 279.20 30.29mpg
Shell/Vpower 20/02/2009 48.25ltr 10.61gl £48.20 £0.999 301.60 28.42mpg

[Atik]

Thought I'd put this up seeing as I have just been through the last two months fuel invoices and worked out my averages.



Ignore row 80 and 81 as they are just continuations of the formulas.

Also ignore the number in cell J82. That figure should be 25.02 which is my average MPG reading since having converted the car to manual (5 months - Feb 09 to June 09). Prior to that the automatic average MPG was 21.91 (7 months - from July 08 to Jan 09). Since the conversion I have also added a piggyback ECU, electronic boost controller, downpipes and decatted the car so no doubt that would also impact on the readings.

And the readings from Japshow onwards have all been at HIGH boost, just cos its fun!

And row 79 is the best of all cos there was about 30 miles of twisty A702 out of Edinburgh and all of that was taken in 3rd gear at very high speeds at high boost in gorgeous sunny weather with all 4 windows down and a load of files and clothes in the back of the car! Then when I got to the A74M and M6, I was still cruising at 80 with all 4 windows down!

[Nevman]

You have got way too much time in your hands Atik

But you are getting quite nice figures there
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Granny driving???

[Atik]

Haha, I started keeping fuel records once I became self employed and have just continued doing that ever since. I now make a note of the milage on the back of each receipt so I know how much I have driven for it to cost that much in fuel.

And I have a very mixed driving style, thank you very much

[HPRULZ]

And I have a very mixed driving style, thank you very much

Yep I noticed that chasing you to the pod when you suddenly realised the back was full of lose wheels

[Atik]

That was definitely a brown pants moment when Nick turned left without warning.

[Nutter_John]

Hmmm that was the left that I missed then

good results for the mpg though

[Atik]

Hehe, yeah, when we left the Ibis/McD carpark everyone did a runner and the convoy was broken. I drove blind for a while until I caught a glimpse of Nick turning right at one of the roundabouts, then accelerated hard to try to catch up which I eventually did due to some traffic.

But yeah the MPG readings are consistently above 25 now

[Gowf]

I tell you there's nothing ecconomic about my fuel, other than im sure its helping boost shells profits.

The absolute best I've had is 210miles to a tank, but the other day was 156. Thats with motorways included though. Although i will say, my absolute record is 72miles on a full tank, thought that was quite impressive!

[elnevio]

I tell you there's nothing ecconomic about my fuel, other than im sure its helping boost shells profits.

The absolute best I've had is 210miles to a tank, but the other day was 156. Thats with motorways included though. Although i will say, my absolute record is 72miles on a full tank, thought that was quite impressive!

This is the great thing about the mpg on these - anything in the middle is just mediocre, but get really high mpg or really low mpg, and they're equally impressive!

[psbarham]

Thread from the dead time

just filled my vr4 up and it worked out to 29.444444 mpg

thats mainly local journeys with a couple high speed long runs thrown in, oh and 1 case of annoying the **** out of a beemer Z4M so the go baby go button was used quite a bit so 1.2 bar and full throttle for 5 miles ish

pretty impressive really.

[Wodjno]

Thread from the dead time

just filled my vr4 up and it worked out to 29.444444 mpg

thats mainly local journeys with a couple high speed long runs thrown in, oh and 1 case of annoying the **** out of a beemer Z4M so the go baby go button was used quite a bit so 1.2 bar and full throttle for 5 miles ish

pretty impressive really.

Are you sure GG didn't make you forget filling up twice

[psbarham]

GG?????

nope, I'm certain its only one fill up.

[Wodjno]

GG?????

nope, I'm certain its only one fill up.

Double G's

[psbarham]

Double G's

aah

nope i managed to pay attention to the car long enough to notice the amount of fill ups

[psbarham]

28.1 this time round, and that's on Morrisons cheap ass 95 octane stuff.

pretty happy with that.

[The Vee]

Reckon someone's driving like Miss Daisy. Even my old beast only did 28.9 last time round..............

[psbarham]

Reckon someone's driving like Miss Daisy. Even my old beast only did 28.9 last time round..............

thats local runs at 1.2 bar annoying a few local numptys, and then a 80-95 mph run cross country to north lincoln and then a few traffic light gp's round lincoln. Just proper driver not a screw driver

did you get my text BTW?

[The Vee]

LOL well whatever it's on I want some!!
Errr no text, unless it was the one the other day bout the rear lamp? I did text back to that one

[psbarham]

LOL well whatever it's on I want some!!
Errr no text, unless it was the one the other day bout the rear lamp? I did text back to that one

I have to say i'm pretty impressed with it.

yeh the one about the rear light, strange no reply here?????? Hey ho, as long as you got it.