2010 184bhp R56 Cooper S mpg figures

[paulstarrally]

Hi Guys,

Hoping some of you can help with the real world mpg figures in the revised 184bhp version of the MCS.

I'm currently looking to buy a new car and looking to get something with a little poke but still maintain decent mpg figures. I'm hoping the MCS might provide that.

My current fiesta achieves 35 around town with 42 on a long rung. So looking for something with comparable figures really.

Thanks in advance
Paul

[12TS]

Carefully driven by my wife ours has just clocked 45 on a journey to work down A roads and dual carriage ways. Others talk about 32. My guess is that you have both ends of the spectrum there.

[Biscuit Bus]

The figures will compare well to your Fiesta. I only used OBC figures but I never saw less than 36.something. 40 was achievable with a little effort and low to mid 40s on a run. Given the performance (and the fact I used to regularly accelerate in short bursts to hear the exhaust!) they are an extremely economical car and have genuinely low running costs with the TLC pack.

My time with the car was mainly commutes seeing a mix of various speed limit A-roads, motorway and urban crawl.

[Sam.F]

I had a Cooper S (one of the first stop/start ones) followed by a JCW. Both were capable of well over 40mpg on a motorway run. Best I saw for a proper journey was 48mpg from the Cooper S on a gentle return trip between Carlisle and Newcastle.

I imagine therefore that the newer model with further refinements to efficientdynamics will at least match those figures, and possibly beat them slightly.

The average will very much depend on your driving habits and where the car spends most of its time - when I had mine I was living in the suburbs and working in town, so all the car did was to trundle around in traffic during the week and then get driven "spiritedly" at the weekend - my average was around 26-28mpg. Now I live 10 miles out of town I would think that figure would be more like 34-36mpg based on my experience with both cars (M135i gets 28-30mpg)

[Miglia 888]

Had a 2013 Cooper S on loan recently, and averaged 33 mpg overall, dropping to well below 20 while thrashing it, and 40mpg at best while driving like a granny.

Driving in the same style over the same roads, I average 45mpg from my similarly rapid Cooper SD, dropping to 30 mpg at worst, and 60mpg at best while driving like a granny.

[paulstarrally]

Guys,

Cheers for all the reply's. apologies for not commenting sooner. I've been sunning myself for a week in the med.

By your feedback it sounds like the MCS could be a front runner for the new car