small car mpg - please post your figures

iNath

Ford Fiesta 1.4 Petrol/LPG 5 door 2006 25k
Mixture of rural country roads (national limit) and town driving, occasional long distance motorway runs.
LPG - 33mpg
Petrol - 40mpg

worried_jim

Run my Astra on rape seed oil @ 78p a litre. Get 40mpg and a smug satisfaction that I am paying nothing in tax to the exchequer.

Keith

205 Gti, sometimes I get 20mpg

sar050680

Renault Megane 05, 49mpg around town, happy days.

Rolandtheroadie

Mondeo 2.0 tdci 52 MPG average.
Mondeo 2.0 tdci 44 MPG average.
Same journeys, same car, 2 different drivers.

ali-t

property.advert wrote: »

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.

I have a 1.4 honda jazz and I think the advertised mpg is something like 48mpg. On short journeys of a couple of miles I get 30mpg and on motorway driving it goes up to 37mpg.

I think the point someone made about small cars having to put more effort into keeping up is true. When I had to drive up a motorway to get to and from work it was uphill at the beginning so straight onto 70mph froma circle and I really had to put my foot down to keep pace with the cars infront and not hinder those behind me. I imagine this wouldn't be good for fuel economy but I know nowt about cars so could be wrong.

property.advert

ali-t wrote: »

I have a 1.4 honda jazz and I think the advertised mpg is something like 48mpg. On short journeys of a couple of miles I get 30mpg and on motorway driving it goes up to 37mpg.

I think the point someone made about small cars having to put more effort into keeping up is true. When I had to drive up a motorway to get to and from work it was uphill at the beginning so straight onto 70mph froma circle and I really had to put my foot down to keep pace with the cars infront and not hinder those behind me. I imagine this wouldn't be good for fuel economy but I know nowt about cars so could be wrong.

A friend of ours has the 1.5 Jazz overseas which is apparently streets ahead of the engines brought to the UK. I would be seriously enough hacked off if I only got 30mpg to have the car back at Honda and let them explain / refund or I'll be seeing them in court. 30 mpg versus 46 mpg is only 63% of the claimed mpg !

Indout96

205 Gti, sometimes I get 20mpg

LOL If we are showing off I more than once averaged 8 mpg in my Chevy Camaro, 20 mpg would have been lucky on a motorway cruse - it was bloody good fun though, had it as a daily driver for 4 years.

jrrowleyws

1.3 Skoda felicia (cool I know!)

about 45mpg on motorways and 40mpg around town. Winter it drops off to about 36mpg!

ali-t

property.advert wrote: »

A friend of ours has the 1.5 Jazz overseas which is apparently streets ahead of the engines brought to the UK. I would be seriously enough hacked off if I only got 30mpg to have the car back at Honda and let them explain / refund or I'll be seeing them in court. 30 mpg versus 46 mpg is only 63% of the claimed mpg !

I thought i had a fuel leak when I changed jobs as it went down from getting 37mpg to 30mpg but the garage said there was nothing wrong. I am not a particularly economic driver but it is a poor return on the advertised figures. I would be as well driving a much bigger car than an apparently economical wee car.