Realistic mpg figures for your car

moonrakerz

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/

Harry_Flashman

Hmmm - the figures for a Shogun Sport (very similar to my L200) are rather below what I achieve.

Hammyman

This shows why some people think their cars are broken when its actually down to their poor driving:

For my Mondeo: Real range - 39–55.5 mpg. I very rarely get under mid 50's. Wifey gets mid 40's out of it.

KillerWatt

Hammyman wrote: »

This shows why some people think their cars are broken when its actually down to their poor driving:

For my Mondeo: Real range - 39–55.5 mpg. I very rarely get under mid 50's. Wifey gets mid 40's out of it.

Same here for our Isuzu Bighorn, I regularly get the manufacturer claimed 30mpg yet the old lady struggles to get past the low 20's when she's at the helm.
Haven't bothered to monitor the Jag just yet, but I expect the story will be the same.

vikingaero

It's not just poor driving. A new car will rarely achieve it's optimum mpg until it's past it's first service. And local traffic conditions will differ.

With the range of hire cars I drive these are my percentages to take off to achieve a realistic mpg:

Petrol -20%
Diesel -40%
Hybrid -45-65%

Remember these are my figures for the sometimes congested South-East.

harveybobbles

My mother in Law has a 59 plate Astra 1.8 auto, which according to all the guides out there is meant to do 36 ish. But over the last 11,000 miles shes got 26.9. Shes been advised this week by her GP not to drive for 4 weeks, so I took the car off her and have been using it myself and it really is horrendous on fuel. I've been getting 28mpg out of it at the most.

Harry_Flashman

That's incredible for a small(ish) 'normal' car!

casseus

i get 34.4 mpg out my chrysler neon 2nd gen.
if i do a long journey motorway miles i can flow about 38.2 mpg out of it.

Loceeee80

Depends on driving conditions as to mpg. urban driving(stop starting low gears) is about half the manufactures claimed mpg, non urban(motorway) if you keep under 65mph your car will do its claimed mpg. Go above 80mph and it drops off very quickly.
I've a petrol 1.6 focus and a 330d bmw tourer the focus does an avarage of 34.5 mpg urban and if I drive like im miss daisy it does 45mpg on the motorway(but I dont so I get around 39).
The tourer does 50ish urban and 65 on the motor way terrific as you would expect from the germans.

greenman7

I posted 64.5mpg average for my Citroen 1.4hdi at 6.30pm on this site and the range was 59.5-62.3mpg. Looked at the site 3 hours later and the range was 49.5-80.7!! So I am beginning to wonder how seriously people are treating the figures. I got 79.9mpg once on the brim to brim method, I do not know how anyone can average 80.7mpg with this car and engine?

davidjwest

For my '04 Mondeo 2.0 TDCi the figures are:

2.0 TDCi 47.1–48.7 mpg 48.2 mpg 39–58 mpg

I've averaged close to 56mpg since I got the car 18 months/55k miles ago, although my driving is probably more motorway biased than most.