Post your MPGs

mikey72

Notmyrealname wrote: »

Indeed. I had Ford Capris for about a decade as a classic car.

In my fully restored 2L Capri with a recon engine, it had 98BHP and returned 37MPG on a run. It weighed OTTOMH 1050kg (I put it on a weighbridge at work once). Compare that to a 2L Ford Mondeo that also does 36-37MPG but has 140BHP but weighs about a third more. Put that running gear in a Ford Capri and you'd get 50MPG.

You must drive like my grandmother.
You only way to get mid thirties is if you never use the second barrel, and just potter along everywhere at tickover.

My beetle engine gave mid thirties, open the second barrel it went down to 18 on a double barrel carb.
Supercharged it now does 25 to 29.

rev_henry

Rover 25 1.4 average 39mpg before the head gasket went this weekend. :mad:

I use the brimming method and fuelly to keep track. Mainly motorways and country roads.

mikey72

My 1.8 Zafira gives about 28.
Urban only, cold starting, heavily loaded, driven like a white van.
On a motorway run it's mid thirties to forty, with a roof box on.
80's Renault with a 1.4 engine does about the same.

horngkai

for best mpg calculation, use fuelly.com. On board mpg calculator is generally 5-10% higher, hence a false sense of good mpg.

Looks like most people here drive a diesel.

Notmyrealname

mikey72 wrote: »

You must drive like my grandmother.

I doubt you'd keep up. I spend a lot of my time having to slow down for people and overtaking them.

You only way to get mid thirties is if you never use the second barrel, and just potter along everywhere at tickover.

It used to get driven at the speed limit wherever possible. I have some very nice driving roads around here.

Here's one place I used to go with it. I could drive the 150 miles to the pod with the wife and kids in, do several runs in it and drive the 150 miles back and still get 33MPG.

mikey72

Notmyrealname wrote: »

I doubt you'd keep up. I spend a lot of my time having to slow down for people and overtaking them.



It used to get driven at the speed limit wherever possible. I have some very nice driving roads around here.

Here's one place I used to go with it. I could drive the 150 miles to the pod with the wife and kids in, do several runs in it and drive the 150 miles back and still get 33MPG.

Complete nonsense.

Fact - you open the throttle, the second barrel sqirts petrol in.
The petrol gets burnt twice as fast.
It's not magic, it comes from the petrol tank in the car.

Drive at 40 mph everywhere, using just the first barrel and you'll get mid 30's.
But it's a waste of a decent car.

andygb

mikey72 wrote: »

You must drive like my grandmother.
You only way to get mid thirties is if you never use the second barrel, and just potter along everywhere at tickover.

My beetle engine gave mid thirties, open the second barrel it went down to 18 on a double barrel carb.
Supercharged it now does 25 to 29.

I reckon that the biggest use of fuel, is stop starting, short journeys, traffic lights and the rest.
I have used the Mondeo in Europe (Italy, via France, Germany and Switzerland), and was cruising on their motorways at between 80 - 100 and managed up to 550 miles on a tankful, which equates to nearly 40 MPG.
Not bad for a twelve year old 1.8 petrol, fully loaded.

mikey72

Anything where you press the throttle uses fuel.
If you coast along at a nice steady speed, without stamping on th accelerator it's cheap.
Long motorway drives are best.
But normal roads, braking for bends, accelerating out, overtaking, stamping your foot down, either the ecu squirts in a lot more fuel, the second barrel of the carb and the accelerator pump chucks in a neat shot of petrol, or the supercharger spins faster as you hold the lower gear, it's not ecomonical. It's just physics, more power = more fuel, nothings free.

samboette

Our 2007 (56) Range Rover Vogue 3.0td ranges anywhere between 19 and 34/35 MPG.

Our 2010 Ford Mondeo Titanium X Sport 2.2 TDCI 6 Speed ranges from 30 - 55/56 MPG.

Then there is the Fiat Stilo Abarth which is no longer on the road, when using it we achieved anything from the late teens to around 27/28 MPG depends how fast it was driven.

mikey72

samboette wrote: »

.............Then there is the Fiat Stilo Abarth which is no longer on the road, when using it we achieved anything from the late teens to around 27/28 MPG depends how fast it was driven.

It needs to be back on the road!