What MPG/Mileage do you get in your car?

feduptwo

Hi,

What return are you getting for your hard earned cash in petrol. I put in £40 to my 2001 zetec 1.6 Focus auto and I get 260 miles. I am not sure if this is the right amount I should be getting or not, nor do I know what MPG that is. I filled up at 31 ltr at £128.9

What do you guys get MPG and what sort of miles do you expect from £20 or £40 petrol.

I hope I can gauge if my car is not performing well, it’s hurting my wallet L

Thank you.

LandyAndy

Measure it properly using the 'brim to brim' method. Nothing else is a reliable method.

I never put round sum amounts in. I always fill the tanks.

Both my cars return around 47 mpg. (Mazda2 1.3 petrol, Mazd6 2.2 diesel)

Silk

feduptwo wrote: »

Hi,

What return are you getting for your hard earned cash in petrol. I put in £40 to my 2001 zetec 1.6 Focus auto and I get 260 miles. I am not sure if this is the right amount I should be getting or not, nor do I know what MPG that is. I filled up at 31 ltr at £128.9

Thats about 38.2 mpg

SalsaDanca

You can find the real-world data for your car on Honest John's Real MPG site or Fuelly.com. You can use Fuelly to record your own figures, but as LandyAndy says you will need to fill your tank to the brim to get an accurate reading.

My Astra 1.8 petrol gets 35 mpg on local runs and up to 45 mpg on the motorway, which is very close to the manufacturer's figures.

Splott

MK4 Mondeo 2.0 TDCi 140. Mostly rural A roads with very little urban driving. Around 53-55MPG.

jaydeeuk1

About 45 on average from my 1.3 IQ, but it does spend most of its time between 4000 and 6000 RPM.

Johno100

I don't get much more than 20mpg in my 2010 Focus ST when I am ragging it around town, still great fun though.

steve-L

Depends completely on where and how I'm driving.

At an extreme I got 68 mpg from Poole to the end of the M3.
In town I can drop to mid 30's....
If I floor it I can get 12 mpg until I run out of road.....

At 65-75 68 is possible, at 75-85 I get about 55 on average.... all depends how constant the speed is and how much I boot it to accelerate.

Quick tests show I get a good 50mpg at 100.....

Trebor16

50mpg at 100mph? Which car do you drive?

bargainbetty

On the motorway, at good speeds, I can get up to 50 mpg. On smaller suburban rounds, not so much. Acceleration is not my friend. Then again, I bought a 1995 BMW 325i, so it's my own damn fault.

When we get a sunny day and I can put the roof down, it's worth it.

steve-L

Trebor16 wrote: »

50mpg at 100mph? Which car do you drive?

Remapped 330D

You can keep it at 100 (no headwind) with hardly any pressure on the accelerator. For reasons of not loosing my license I haven't tested this extensively!!! but on a flat stretch of motorway on one occasion I reset the trip comp to test it...... may have been a tailwind even.... but it wasn't really blowing in any direction.

I'd been increasingly wondering given the very slight difference between 80 and 90....




In real world terms it would be challenging due to hills and having to slow-up and speed up.... but I managed it over about 2-3 miles (about 2 mins)

I'd be interested to see what the stock map might get....
I suspect its down to the huge amount of torque the remap gives low down.


edit: forgot to mention, I think the remap gives it a bit less MPG urban. But since I don't do much urban it doesn't worry me (nor did I choose the actual remap but came with the car)