Real World MPG

[Dave^]

As this is probably THE biggest UK motoring forum, i thought i'd pose the following question here.....

What MPG are you achieving from your car?

i've searched around for the past few days, but only found 'offical' figures....which we all know are far from what are achievable......

if you could enter your Make, Model, Year, MPG, and any other relevent details.....

mine for example....


Ford, Fiesta ST, 2007, 28mpg, mainly used for work and back driving 7 miles each way



Cheers!

[Zeonalarm]

Rover, 416, 1999, 41 mpg, 300 miles a week half motorway and half B-road.

and

Subaru, Impreza, 2005 (2.5litre), around 20mpg, used only at weekends really for a bit of hoon.

Edited by Zeonalarm on Tuesday 17th June 18:57

[Targarama]

Fiat Panda 100HP - 90% urban driving, hilly area - reads 38.9mpg over last few thousand miles
2006 2.0T Golf GTi manual, mostly motorways, commuting - 33.5 mpg long term on 95 RON, 36mpg on Super Unleaded 98 RON
TVR T350 - 18-28mpg depending on journey type on super - don't care though as all miles are smiles in this.

[Dave^]

Thanks guys, exactly what i'm after.....

[Mars]

Dave^ said:

if you could enter your Make, Model, Year, MPG, and any other relevent details.....

Subaru Legacy 3.0Rn automatic sports tourer (estate in anyone else's language), MY2005 - 05, 19mpg average although I can get it up to about 24 in the motorway.

[Glosphil]

Roughly 18 months ago Autoexpress did a test on a dozen or so cars comparing the real-world mpg with that claimed by the manufacturers. I seem to remember that the best was 10% less and the worst was more than 30% less! They also found that cars with any form of trip computer generally overstated the mpg. My 2005 Civic Type-S displays an average mpg which is 12% more than I have actually obtained.

[Sharief]

Targarama said:

Fiat Panda 100HP - 90% urban driving, hilly area - reads 38.9mpg over last few thousand miles

Fiat Panda 100HP - 25 mile commute each day, 70% dual carriageway, 30% town/queues. Usually another 50 weekends. Get 35.5MPG over the last 1200 miles, Sport mode off majority of time. Run on 97RON.

[Dracoro]

S2000 mixture of driving here, 28mpg.

Trip round France, 33-36mpg.

[Chipper]

BMW DMS 335D, no worse than 35mpg on back roads with 38/39mpg on a motorway.

[Albert Bridge]

Peugeot 306 XT, 1997. 16mpg

[caiss4]

A.G. said:

Fabia vRS. 65 mile round trip commute includes some motorway, some dual carriageway and some urban.

Average over 3 weeks 51.7mpg.

Since using this thing, it no longer even makes sense to use my motorbike.

I was feeling quite good about my 21-22mpg (26mpg at a steady 'speed' on the motoroway) in the S4 on 97RON compared to some others posted until I saw the Fabia above; that's certainly food for thought.

The Volvo does 27-28mpg regardless of how you drive it.

[Baffled Spoon]

1999 Ford Focus 1.8 - about 34 mpg urban, about 44 on a motorway run

2003 Honda Civic 1.4 - pretty much same as the Focus above

[KB_S1]

Saxo VTS

37-38mpg

Driving is mostly 15-25mile runs.
MWay, rural and a little bit of town but not much heavy traffic.
The powerband is often fully exploited.

Official figures say 33.9mpg so I am about 10% up.

Still taxed on the official figures though.

[Jasandjules]

2000 Passat 1.9 Tdi 48mpg
1999 Chimaera 5.0 20 mpg

[Bungleaio]

Impreza 2.5 WRX 2006 Mostly city driving but with some motorway, 18mpg. If I hoon about its sgnificantly less

[cesc]

Golf R32 2003 (3.2 V6 if you didn't know), 14-18 mpg in stop start traffic, 18-20 mpg in general town driving, 26-28 mpg on the motorway. Always run on super unleaded. Oh and...

Albert Bridge said:

Peugeot 306 XT, 1997. 16mpg

Eh?

[jbi]

1993 Volvo 850 2.0

Roughly 25-32mpg mixed driving... a lot less if I drive like an idiot.

[xjandy]

Mercedes E320 cdi-
Actual was 30.3mpg, worked out from mileage at last fill up .
Trip computor shows average over the last 8000miles as 31.3mpg.
I filled up yesterday and slowed down today to about 80-90 mph and was dead careful and got the computor up to 46.4mpg.I will continue till empty and see what it does.80 mph ,thought I would be booked for parking.

[bigmanteebs]

Focus ST2: 24MPG round town/ A-B roads: 31MPG On a steady Journey.

Mazda 6 2.0d: 49MPG, complete mix of driving.

[Negative Creep]

Haven't had my MX5 long enough to make a good average, but seem to get 30-35 mpg