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Hi

I've just bought a new car and was wondering what my economy is like compared to others. I know there are a lot of factors that play into this, but, can I ask the question: what car do you drive and how many miles do you get out of a tank of petrol/diesel?

K x

In reply to katietoday:

Renault Megane dci, about 800ish.

In reply to katietoday: 790 1.9D Passat Estate. about 50-60mpg.

In reply to katietoday: Audi A6 2.7 avant quattro. Around 37mpg average and 500 miles from a full tank.

In reply to katietoday:

have honda jazz

motorway driving i can get 59.5 mpg

town driving school run ect soemwehre near 52mpg

In reply to katietoday:

old diesel Fiesta - 55mpg.

In reply to katietoday:

Full tank gets me 200 mile. Citroen C2 VTR 1.6 (about 22-25mpg)

In reply to katietoday:

Landrover 90. 150 miles.

In reply to katietoday:

Micra, 45 mpg in town, 55 ish motorway.

In reply to katietoday:

Clio 1.2 16v 53 plate, 45mpg in towns, 55+ on motorways and a-roads. Had 70 out of it with careful driving.

Anywhere from 450-650 miles a tank.

In reply to katietoday: the sizes of the tanks vary dramatically, so it's the wrong question to ask really!

In reply to Andy S: citroen picasso diesel, 11.5 gallon tank, 700 miles when long distance driving, about 500 when doing normal trips around town, but lasts over a months.

In reply to katietoday:

Volvo V50 2.0D Estate. max 450 miles

In reply to katietoday: volvo 850 70 pound to fill up and 65 mph maybe 450 miles..60 litres

In reply to Goodwin912:

Have you got a fuel leak??

Unless you rev the nuts off your car, 22-25mpg from a 1.6 Citroen sounds really bad...

In reply to katietoday:

Astra 1.7 diesel - ~48mpg from a tank with lots of cold short town driving, ~55mpg with lots of fast motorway/A road driving. Overall average around 50mpg, or 550 miles out of a 50 litre tank.

Remember that 100 miles per 10 litres is 45mpg and it'll make it much easier to work things out.

In reply to katietoday: Fill your car up with fuel, reset your mile counter and drive it till the fuel light comes on. That should give you a pretty good idea.

In reply to oui oui:

Its set just set up for performance over economy. Spent a fair bit to get it this way, and it does move quite briskly

In reply to Goodwin912:

Oh, and its not the 16v citroen engine. I had it changed over.

In reply to katietoday:

Citroen C4, 750-800 miles according to the computer. I reckon it's a bit less than that tho, but still it's a decent range.

In reply to katietoday:

Should the question not be, how many miles per gallon do you get rather than how far from a tank of fuel?200 miles from a 3 gallon tank would be stunning, 400 miles from a 50gallon tank would be crap.
At work we get about a thousand miles from a tank full. But as the fuel tank holds 1200gallons the mpg ain't that high!

In reply to katietoday:

VW Passat 1.9 TDi gets me between 500-600 per tank, which comes out to about 45-50 mpg. Mix of short urban driving and weekend trips of about 100 miles each way.

Qu: did you find out about your new car's fuel consumption before buying it?

In reply to katietoday:

M Roadster, petrol, 230 miles/tank (+-10), ~26mpg.
540i, petrol, 380 miles/tank (+-a lot), ~17mpg.

jk

In reply to oui oui:

About right if it's driven hard.
jk

In reply to katietoday:

In our new car we got sheffield - edinburgh on half a tank! ace, hey.

In reply to katietoday:
approx 600 miles on a 50L tank

In reply to katietoday:

An Honda S2000, I get about 30ish on a sane run, but I can manage around 20 or so if I am feeling a hooligan, or round town

In reply to katietoday:

Approx 220 miles on a full tank which costs around £18.00.



















(Triumph Tiger 1050)

In reply to katietoday:

Toyota Prius, 65mpg around town, slightly less on motorways.

In reply to katietoday:

Ford Focus estate 1.8 tddi - I can get just over 500 miles to a tank on the motorway/driven carefully with a light load, which is about 50-51 mpg.

Full up with people and stuff piled on the roof can take up to 60 miles off that.

In reply to katietoday:
Old Audi A4 1.9TDi, tank is a little more than 60 litres, 55-60 mpg, 750-820 miles on full tank.

In reply to katietoday: Land Rover 110 V8 on LPG ~a whopping 13mpg*


*equivalent to 25mpg on petrol at current LPG price

In reply to katietoday:

Alfa Romeo 147 1.6 petrol 60 litre tank 400 miles, the best economy I've got out of this is 34 mpg and thats driving miss daisy! Don't ever buy one of these cars.

In reply to katietoday:

peugeot 206 1.4. about 420 - 470 miles per 40Ls, depending on the type of driving. (really tired cruising back from the hills at 62mph v oh shit I'm late for work, how quickly can I get there)

In reply to katietoday:

58 plate Corsa 1.3 CDTi, combined average of 63mpg at the moment.

In reply to katietoday:

Alfa 156 Gta

About 22mpg average, but every mile is fun

In reply to katietoday:
5 yr old ford focus diesel estate 45 mpg. Must admit I was hoping to get more like 50+ mpg but it's done nearly 160k.

In reply to benny_m:


Surely you didn't buy it for the economy!?
jk

In reply to katietoday:
02 reg Ford Galaxy 1.9tdi. To fill tank £60, does 500 miles on that, mixed driving. approx 41mpg, but more on a long run.

In reply to katietoday:
Skoda Octavia estate. Average's 45 around town and over 58 on the motorway. i was amazed on a recent band outing to Skye to get 59 on the way back when the car was fully loaded with big loudspeakers and ampplifiers.

In reply to katietoday:

I have a 40 litre tank. The best I've done is 800miles in my diesel fiesta. I drove from my house to Mallaig and back with a week of minor poottling in between. I was curious to see if I could do it on one tank so retty much went everywhere at 50mph! It's the only time I've had a speeding ticket - coming down a steep hill on the motorway I though I'd be sneaky and get some free speed so I put the clutch in and coasted upto 80mph. Past a police car :-P Kind of annoying because 80mph on an empty motorway in the middle of the night you would think they might let it slide.

In reply to Richard Carter:
did they ticket you for 80 or just over? I've never heard of someone getting a ticket for 80 or less

In reply to katietoday: Mitsubishi Shogun 25 MPG driven carefully.

In reply to katietoday: Skoda Fabia 'Greenline' estate- 63mpg is bad, usually nearer 73mpg, often only 69mpg.
Goes for around 600 miles on 40 litres of fuel.
With two kids, two adults and all the kids clobber! My wife sees 80mpg on her run to work... I guess we weigh a lot!

VW T4 Transporter 2.4D 1996 ---> 550 miles a tank, although I get the extra 50 odd miles out of it because I usually add 1L of 2-Stroke engine oil to a full tank.

In reply to katietoday: Ford Focus TDCi 1.8, five years old. 50 litre tank - 45mpg give or take.

If I'm careful on a long journey and use decent fuel then I'll get 500 miles, but running around town or belting at high speed on the motorway it's more like 430-450.

Have noticed a big difference between decent diesel (Shell, BP standard stuff) and cheap fuel (Morrisons especially, but also Tesco). Morrison's stuff, even on a really careful motorway run, loses me about 50 or 60 miles. Sainsbury's seems to be on a par with the big boys though, and as that's usually cheap on my way into Stockport, that works pretty well for me!
C-:

In reply to Tree:


Wow, that's amazing. Illustrates how far the Prius and the other hybrids have to go to be really green options.

In reply to katietoday:

240 miles is the best i've done.

190 in winter round town

(great car though)

In reply to ERU:

Does it mix? Surely it'll just smoke and run like a dog for the first 50 miles!

jk

In reply to CarolineMc:
Ok same car, same age roughly the same mileage and I don't drive mine all that carefully so no suprise there really.

In reply to katietoday:

I fill up my diesel motor every 400 miles

In reply to CurlyStevo:


I've been done for doing 79mph on the M6.

In reply to OP:
I get about 450 miles out of a tank, driving a 2.5 diesel Nissan Pathfinder.

In reply to katietoday:

Toyota yaris 1.2 petrol - 320-ish miles at about 47mpg

Nissan Quashqai 2l diesel - 33 mpg around and about. 37 on the motorway, which was a bit of a shocker. Full shock value came when it had a bike rack on the back. When consuption increased to 27mpg, we stopped and put the bikes and rack in the boot. Long way from the manufacturer's figures

Best figures came from an Audi 80 Diesel - Benbecula to Heathrow on one tank at 80mph. An A4 wasn't as good.

In reply to adityahs:

Absolutely. The batteries in a Prius are made in Japan, from ore mined in Canada, then refined and processed in Europe. Any good done by them is negated by the manufacturing process- and their silly engine only does 44mpg ffs!

In reply to Tree: And then there's the new Peugeot 308 that does 126mpg. Not looked into it, but Peugeot might make it back onto my shopping list!

In reply to CarolineMc:
I've got exactly the same in a 57 reg, and am getting exactly the same stats. Was wondering if I should be doing better!

In reply to Martin76:

03 reg Corsa 1.2.

300 miles on 40 litres of fuel.

In reply to katietoday:

Pegeut 107, small tank (probably 35litres) on full running 400-450 if driving sensibly!

In reply to CarolineMc:

Interesting. Has anyone else noticed this? I've been keeping an eye on my fuel consumption for the last year or so, and my VW golf estate normally does 45-46 mpg consistently (if driven fairly sensibly). Twice I have managed 55 on a tank (never anything in between the two). I'd assumed that was because it was pretty much a full tank's worth of driving down an empty motorway at 70, but now you've made me wonder if it was a different grade of diesel that did it.

On that subject, my local BP garage has started charging "premium" diesel prices unless you go to the HGV pump. Does anyone know if HGV diesel is of a lower grade, or whether it will be what BP used to sell as regular diesel at the car pumps?

In reply to jonny taylor:

A friend who drives his van round the country as a walking guide has - he swears by getting considerably further from a tank of non-supermarket diesel. I've not tried it myself though.

In reply to graeme jackson:

My 6yo Octavia 1.9tdi est does anywhere between 500 - 600 miles on a tankful depending on how hard the right foot is used.

In reply to katietoday:

Figures I got with some old engines (120-190K miles):

(L-reg) Mark 3 VW Golf 1.4 Petrol - 37-40mpg
(M-reg) Mark 1 Ford Mondeo estate 1.9 Petrol - 25-37mpg
(R-reg) Peugeot 406 2.1 diesel - ~45mpg
(L-reg) Peugeot 205 1.8 diesel - 46-54mpg

In reply to katietoday:

Had Peugeot diesels for ages. The current 2.0 l 307 averages about 45mpg and I guess I get something like 550 miles from a tank.

In reply to katietoday:

Skoda Octavia 1.9 TDI, I get about 700 miles from a 50 litre tank. I don't know what that translates to in mpg. I reckon I could get 800 if I drove carefully. The trip computer normally gives me a reading of around 58mpg as an average for climbing trips that involve a little bit of motorway driving and lots of Scottish back roads.

Sadly, that car is going soon and I doubt the replacement will be as good (replacing a company car with a car of my own and I can't afford a brand new car )

In reply to katietoday:

E34 525i Touring manual: 28 mpg

In reply to katietoday: Mondeo 2.0 Turbo Diesel 55-60mpg about 750miles on a tank full

what car did you get and what does it do?

In reply to katietoday: 56 plate Saab 93 wagon 1.9 (the low power one)

Me on Holiday 600 miles 48ish MPG
Me at work 500 miles 44ish MPG
Mrs Jonah 400 miles gawd knows

In reply to jonny taylor:

Dunno if the grade is different. But I'd heard that you weren't supposed to be able to put the nozzle in a car size filler hole.

Also, If the govt does ever charge businesses different rates for fuel at the pump; you'd become a fraudster and be hunted by HMRC for all eternity.

In reply to katietoday:

Mazda RX8 (231 version)

60l tank, 250miles range

(300 if you drive hyper miley stylee)

In reply to katietoday:
Fully loaded ford transit 520 miles (32MPG)
my bike Kawasaki versys 240 miles (63MPG) if I take it easy and 180 if I hoon it around.

In reply to Dax H: It does make you wonder though - car= heavy, bike= lighter- There should be a massive difference in terms of mpg?

In reply to Martin76:

Yeah, I was quite disappointed when I got it - I was expecting better. My dad was getting better results than me - granted he was in a 2 litre but with town type running I expected him to be roughly on a par. Heyho, looks like it's the average if you, me and curlystevo are all reading the same. C-:

In reply to jkarran:
Of course it does - have a google. I also used to use veggie oil but that got expensive in the last year

In reply to Tree:


Don't knock something you don't know about. All my fuel checks are by topping the tank up and reading the trip meter. Never had less than 63mpg in the Prius. Computer average consumption figures (which you are probably quoting) are notoriously inaccurate but on a 6 mile dowmhill run from the Peak District into Sheffield I can get 95mpg.

Your figures are the first that I have seen giving more than the manufacturers mpg. Usually it is around 5% less. Just googlesd three reviews giving the Scoda Greenline saloon at 49.5mpg and 51mpg.

In reply to Tree:

Aye forgot about my old donkey.

(R reg) Honda C90 (90cc) - about 100 miles to a tank, but the tank is under 4L. So even I was reving hard at its max speed (55-60mph) most of the time, it still gave over 120mpg.

In reply to alex_th:
Don't know if that is the same version BMW as mine(?).I have a 97 BMW 523i(2.5litre petrol engine).I can get just over 500 on a careful long journey,but down to 350ish if you really use the engine for getting there before anyone else.

Trouble with trying to be mean w the fuel on a long journey(motorway), is that it may cause more accidents, as there is a greater tendency to fall asleep through boredom.
Rob

In reply to 220bpm:

Me RX-8 (231 version) - 17mpg if I'm lucky which is around 190 mile but it's mainly round town apart from a cross country blast on Sunday mornings.

Mrs BigSecret same RX8 25mpg on M4 back from wales but she drives it like she owns it not like she stole it.

In reply to katietoday:

I've got an old ford fiesta (petrol)...costs about £30 to fill the tank.
I get about 250 miles out of that...

Got about the same out of my 1.0 litre corsa until it killed iself whilst I was driving down the M6 at night...a cyclinder fell into the engine and the car died I had almost a full tank too...grrrrr!!! Used RAC man's fuel on the way home!