Realistic mpg figures for your car

Kilty_2

harveybobbles wrote: »

It will burn most chavs off no problem!

Therein lies the problem with economy

harveybobbles

I thought that as I was typing it LOL

oldagetraveller

My Diesel Toyota Yaris consistently averages 60 + mpg over a mix of urban and rural, checked using tank fill to tank fill and not the onboard computer. For longish motorway runs at no more than 70mph it's around 65mpg. So the official 67mpg combined is not too optomistic in my case.
I don't know how the cars are being driven to only achieve the 52mpg "real" mpg listed in the link?

King_Nothing

Mines listed as 23.7 as real avergae, which is pretty close to what I get.

harveybobbles

greenman7 wrote: »

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?

I know two people who have a C3 1.4HDi's and both get between 58-62mpg.

Kilty_2

harveybobbles wrote: »

I know two people who have a C3 1.4HDi's and both get between 58-62mpg.

Same engine as in a Ford Fiesta 1.4 TDCI?

I want to BURN THEM :rotfl:

Hintza

The Cherokee 2.8 auto works out at:-

16 - 18mpg when towing
18 -20 mpg in the winter short cold runs
20 -22 mpg short cold runs
29 -31 mpg long motorway runs

Optimum consumption seems to when cruising at around 65 mph (in top gear. Around 60 mph it is searching the gears which just kills fuel consumption.

My average over the year will be about 21 mpg :eek:

For this reason over the ast year we now tend to take the Panda when possible.

Hintza

Dave101t wrote: »

those figures are bo11ocks, i get 25% more in all cars ive driven.

Hope you put your figures in as the average should become more accurate over time.

Of course some people will get a lot more than others and vica versa but it should become a pretty good tool as a rough guide to real life figures.

anotherbaldrick

The Golf Mk 5 1.4 TDI Petrol gives me between 38 in town to 52 mpg out of town .
The DSG automatic which is more economical than the manual box makes it very easy to drive for good mpg . You can ease it up to the cruising speed you want back off the throttle and it will just run at that speed until a bit of a hill comes along.

JCP

I've got a 2003 Corolla 1.6VVTi which official figures give as between 39.2-40.4mpg.
The real average is shown as 43.3mpg, and I'm getting 48.1mpg at the moment on mostly urban roads. The onboard trip computer shows it averaging 44.6 from new over approx 75k miles. All in all I'm not left feeling misled about the consumption figures