small car mpg - please post your figures

property.advert

Thanks for the input so far.

If it was purely down to me, I'd get a circa 5 year old E Class and waft around in luxury and comfort.

I'd heard some "horror" stories of people with small cars and yet getting large car mpg. Maintenance and reliability are hugely important for me and if I can justify it, a new car will be the end result. It won't be doing mega miles but the mpg is important as are total ownership costs, which means a decent resale value.

Anyone got a Fiesta 1.6 with the DPF on it ?

forgotmyname

I never see the point in asking what MPG you should or might get.

Dont drive in traffic and you will get more miles per gallon, Simples.

motorguy

forgotmyname wrote: »

I never see the point in asking what MPG you should or might get.

Dont drive in traffic and you will get more miles per gallon, Simples.

I think its because on average some car makers cars tend to be more economical than others, or some cars overall seem to be more economical than others.

Simples.

property.advert

forgotmyname wrote: »

I never see the point in asking what MPG you should or might get.

Dont drive in traffic and you will get more miles per gallon, Simples.

I ask because you cannot believe the figures the manufacturers give you. The Fiesta I am leaning towards shows mpg of 61/88/76 but if someone here actually has one and they get 35/50/45 then it has great importance.

As for not driving in traffic ?

Kilty_2

In a 1.2 Polo I was getting worse fuel economy on a 330 mile motorway (almost exclusively motorway) run than in my 1.6 Astra. Roughly around 40MPG and the Astra would definitely return more than that on a motorway for 300+ miles at a time.

The Polo was newer and had significantly lower mileage than my Astra however it was a Europcar hire car so it'd obviously had a hard life for those 8000 miles it'd done (and hadn't had it's first service, either)

rev_henry

Strider590 wrote: »

Tends to be a false economy driving small engine cars, they have to be driven much harder to keep up with traffic flow.

I think it was Top Gear who put a BMW M5 (the fast one) against a small hatchback in fuel economy test, BMW driven at a normal casual pace and the other car driven at the exact same speed..... In the end the big M5 gas guzzler did more MPG.

Oh come on, that was an M3, instructed merely to keep up with the Prius being thrashed flat out in front! It was just to prove that the Prius was less of a green hippy car than an M3 lol.

Kilty_2

rev_henry wrote: »

Oh come on, that was an M3, instructed merely to keep up with the Prius being thrashed flat out in front! It was just to prove that the Prius was less of a green hippy car than an M3 lol.

Plus who's buying a Prius for it's green credentials anyway?

I'll have one for the low BIK :rotfl:

Markyt

Panda Diesel.

Motorway ~ 60 mpg at normal traffic speeds
town ~ 52 mpg

JonathanA

Ford Fiesta 1.4 TDCi Zetec 5 door - 60 - 65mpg on motorway, keeping up with traffic, between 55 - 60 elsewhere.

Ford CMAX 2.0TDCI Powershift with DPF - 38 to 42, mostly round town with an occasional long run

rev_henry

Markyt wrote: »

Panda Diesel.

Motorway ~ 60 mpg at normal traffic speeds
town ~ 52 mpg

I seem to remember my father excitedly telling me he'd managed 73mpg in one of those on the way back from work once. Then he sold it because he was bored lol.