How far can you go?

Barr

Ok with petrol prices on the up I decided to check what return I was getting on my present car fuel wise.

For €50 petrol I get very close to 250 miles. I m driving a 2000 Celica 190 bhp tiptronic.

So €10 = 50 miles

I dont drive long journeys mainly 5/6 miles at a time


I would be interested in hearing what other people are getting and how my car compares?

littlejukka

50euro gets me around 300 miles. 2.0 petrol 135bhp spacewagon. lots of short journeys 4-10 miles, a few long journeys a month of 150-200 miles.

Atomic Pineapple

1999 Honda Integra Type R - 187bhp

For €50 i get 250 miles, drive about 40 miles a day

Guy:Incognito

Absolutely pointless comparison unless you include what price the petrol was. €50 in one garage could equate to acouple fo litres difference if the price is a good bit higher.

Barr

Last couple of times I payed 1.20 a litre which seems standard enough in Cork these days

milltown

draffodx wrote: »

1999 Honda Integra Type R - 187bhp

For €50 i get 300 miles, drive about 40 miles a day

(€50 = 60litres)

Where the glaven are you buying your petrol?
I'd drive to Meath once a fortnight for 83 cent a litre petrol!

Barr

milltown wrote: »

Where the glaven are you buying your petrol?
I'd drive to Meath once a fortnight for 83 cent a litre petrol!

WTF ... can you still get petrol for 83c a litre ?? surley not unless you go back to 1998

Seth Brundle

Stekelly wrote: »

Absolutely pointless comparison unless you include what price the petrol was. €50 in one garage could equate to acouple fo litres difference if the price is a good bit higher.

In fairness Statoil on Dublin's quays has closed so the national average price has plummeted to realistic levels

JHMEG

draffodx wrote: »

For €50 i get 300 miles, drive about 40 miles a day

Can you actually get €50 worth into your car in one go?

I can't (Civic VTI), tank is 45 litre, and the closest I've gotten is 38 litres (€45), and that was with the red light on for ages.

EDIT: just read your next post: there is no way 60 litres will fit in an ITR.

Seth Brundle

JHMEG wrote: »

Can you actually get €50 worth into your car in one go?

I can't (Civic VTI), tank is 45 litre, and the closest I've gotten is 38 litres (€45), and that was with the red light on for ages.

Mine is a 70L tank so I can and do put in a lot more than €50

milltown

kbannon wrote: »

Mine is a 70L tank so I can and do put in a lot more than €50

I hear you brother. Let's organise a convoy to Draffodx's place. Mad Max stylee!

Guy:Incognito

kbannon wrote: »

In fairness Statoil on Dublin's quays has closed so the national average price has plummeted to realistic levels

The statoil branding is gone but the guy is still operating.

On tank sizes, my Safrane had an 80ltr tank. I used to get about 20 mpg.

Atomic Pineapple

whoops my calculations are way out there then, the tank holds €40 euro exactly from a pump where the price is 1.18 a litre, i get exactly 200miles out of this, so €50 is a tank and a quarter, which is actually only 250miles for the €50. which equates to 59 litres i think?

sorry i'm flued up and not with, thanks for pointing out my stupidity

Barr wrote: »

WTF ... can you still get petrol for 83c a litre ?? surley not unless you go back to 1998

i've invented a time machine, i go back when i need petrol

(actually i'm just dumb )


no jhmeg i can only get €40 in at a time

Barr

I was wondering how a type R was getting 50 miles further than mine on the same money

bazz26

570 miles from €49 at 116.9 per litre for diesel.

Barr

bazz26 wrote: »

570 miles from €49 at 116.9 per litre for diesel.

Thats excellent - what make of car , engine size?

cormie

I got 435 miles from 81 litres (another close call with the light coming on:D) so I'm saying 100 miles per 20 litres to be safe.

gar32

I get 500miles of city driving in GT TDI Golf 1.9 Diesel. 1.19 per liter normal. If you want more for your money look at

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2249054745685809997&q=top+gear+audi&total=674&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

You can drive to say on fuel and save a few euros. I tried this from Gorey to Dublin never going over 60 mile per hour & got 70MPG or use 4 liters for 100km. happy driving

bazz26

Barr wrote: »

Thats excellent - what make of car , engine size?

2005 Ford Focus 1.6 TDCi.

Chet T16

I dunno how many miles per € but i've worked out the MPG before

Audi = 38.9mpg (2.5 diesel)
Renault 19 16v = 25ish
Lancia Integrale = 15mpg so not the daily driver!

Armin_Tamzarian

€10 petrol would usually give me 35-40 miles.

Barr

Chet T16 wrote: »

Lancia Integrale = 15mpg so not the daily driver!

Bet this is worth every € ....one of my fav cars of all time

BostonB

milltown wrote: »

Where the glaven are you buying your petrol?
I'd drive to Meath once a fortnight for 83 cent a litre petrol!

His dads company. :rolleyes: He edited the post for some reason.

Stekelly wrote: »

The statoil branding is gone but the guy is still operating....

Last time I checked it was 1.95 a litre there.

I can't see that losing so much business is balanced by catching out the odd driver who does check the price regardless of who else fills up there (Guards) etc.

Barr

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

€10 petrol would usually give me 35-40 miles.

Can I ask peeps not to forget make , model , engine size

Chet T16

Barr wrote: »

Bet this is worth every € ....one of my fav cars of all time

I'll admit it has something the audi doesn't

Seth Brundle

BostonB wrote: »

Last time I checked it was 1.95 a litre there.

I can't see that losing so much business is balanced by catching out the odd driver who does check the price regardless of who else fills up there (Guards) etc.

I wasn't aware that it was still going - which brand is it under now?
As for the gardai, they had a Statoil a/c so they won't be using it now.

Armin_Tamzarian

Barr wrote: »

Can I ask peeps not to forget make , model , engine size

Sorry, Toyota Supra TT 3.0, dunno what the petrol price was.

Rovi

Filled 'er up tonight, so the last tank, according to my calculations, got me 174 miles for €50.
Audi RS6, 4.2l, averaging 19mpg or thereabouts these days.

L1011

kbannon wrote: »

I wasn't aware that it was still going - which brand is it under now?
As for the gardai, they had a Statoil a/c so they won't be using it now.

"One Oil".

HJL

Last time i checked i got bout 550 miles from the tank which is 47 litres
its a '98 Seat Ibiza 1.9D with 157k miles on the clock.
Still a very healthy 50-55mpg on your average tank id estimate.

Cookie_Monster

i can get up to 450 miles out of €50 on long drives but usually get around 375in city in 03 almera (1.5l).

itarumaa

for 50 euros I can drive maybe 420 miles, car is Matiz 800cc

mpg is around 35-39 (6.0l-6.7l/100km)

Cookie_Monster

itarumaa wrote: »

mpg is around 35-39

That doesn't seem that great for a small car like that TBH, I get the same in a 1.5l car, a lot more on a long cruise

paulksnn

50 euro gets me about 9 gallons (41.35 litres) That's the tank almost full.
450 Miles = 50 mpg.
04 Mazda 6 2L Diesel

cormie

Just on the filling up thing, when I fill my tank, I FILL FILL it, like after the pump first cuts off because it's full, I can still put about 10 more litres in before it starts to nearly overflow. I hope I'm not supposed to just leave it when it first cuts off?

itarumaa

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

That doesn't seem that great for a small car like that TBH, I get the same in a 1.5l car, a lot more on a long cruise

I agree, one reason is that I go flat out guite often, since the car is so painfully slow.

Atomic Pineapple

BostonB wrote: »

His dads company. :rolleyes: He edited the post for some reason.

i didnt believe it was relevant

Riskymove

bazz26 wrote: »

2005 Ford Focus 1.6 TDCi.

Hmm 570 miles on a tank seems an awful lot

I was about to post how happy I was with my new Focus 1.4 doing approx 630 kilometres with a full tank

are you sure it wasn't 570 km?

daveharnett

cormie wrote: »

Just on the filling up thing, when I fill my tank, I FILL FILL it, like after the pump first cuts off because it's full, I can still put about 10 more litres in before it starts to nearly overflow. I hope I'm not supposed to just leave it when it first cuts off?

Nah, the cutoff mechanism is far from foolproof.

~350 miles for €50 (1.19 per litre)
96 1.6 golf

never really appreciated how much further the diesels went. good thread.

Wossack

20 miles to the litre

so, um...

833 miles for 50e? (@ 1.20e / litre )

shame I can only fit 7.5l in my 125cc

Ferris

I get about 500mls from 50ltrs in a Golf GT Tdi. A lot of motorway driving tho.

Once averaged 70mpg on the trip computer driving from Belfast to Dublin because I had the flu and stuck it at 60 the whole way.

vectra

Mondeo 1.8 Zetec.
311 Miles for €50 (ish)
Not 100% accurate there now but not far out either.
That was to Dublin and back from Cork. Not going too easy either

bazz26

Riskymove wrote: »

Hmm 570 miles on a tank seems an awful lot

I was about to post how happy I was with my new Focus 1.4 doing approx 630 kilometres with a full tank

are you sure it wasn't 570 km?

Certain, trip computer is fairly accurate and gives me a reading of around 927 km.

Spit62500

Riskymove wrote: »

Hmm 570 miles on a tank seems an awful lot

I was about to post how happy I was with my new Focus 1.4 doing approx 630 kilometres with a full tank

are you sure it wasn't 570 km?

Most small diesels in that class will achieve similar with a little care. Given a 55 litre tank and an average consumption of 5 litres per 100 km you can see how easy it is to achieve it - even allowing for not running the tank dry. Its worth noting that most of them will run around the 4.2 L/100 km range quite easily but it all depends on the driving conditions and driver style.

Barr

bazz26 wrote: »

Certain, trip computer is fairly accurate and gives me a reading of around 927 km.

I always new diesels were more economical but didnt realize there would be such a diference. Your car does well over twice the distance I can get from my Celica

bottletops

Focus 1.6
489 miles = 1 Full tank = €62 ish

BeardyGit

From a 60 litre tank in my '97 1.8 Petrol V40 I get 400 miles mixed driving - That's about 30 MPG which is not terribly bad, as I carry a fair bit of kit in the boot most of the time, and have roof bars on it etc. On a long run without the roof bars, I'm up to about 37 MPG which isn't too bad.

The '81 Range Rover on the other hand, that's returning about 220 miles from an 80 litre tank, when I don't have a head on wind, if I'm lucky. That's not joking either. About 11 MPG. If I get a head on wind, and the route has a load of hills, I'm down to about 8 MPG. Needless to say, she doesn't get to stretch the legs very often at that rate, but for a 27 year old pulling a full ambulance body around on her backside, she'll still make 75MPH without breaking a sweat..... And the twin carb V8....Sure why wouldn't you pay to hear that purr.

jrar

Passat 1.9 TDI

Tank is officially 62 ltrs but I've squeezed over 63 ltrs into it from near empty at times so either the car manual is wrong or some of my local garages need their diesel pumps re-calibrated pretty badly !

Anyway, full tank costing anywhere from €71-€74 nowadays will give me nigh on 700 miles esp. if there's any long'ish runs involved. Currently do approx. 50 miles per day.

lolab

MYOB wrote: »

"One Oil".

I thought it was rebranded to Topaz?
Maybe thats their registered name and not their trading name?

On the OP, I fill up at €1.18 per litre, put no more then €40 so about 35ltrs and get about 180miles per tank outta my car. I drive an evo 6 2ltr turbo.

prospect

From the last fill in my 'SUV':

€50 at €1.169 per Litre = 42.77L

42.77L = 9.41 Imperial Gallons

9.41 Gallons got me 592Kms (367.85 Miles)

Therefore:
39MPG or 13.6c per mile

MarkN

70 quid gets me 250 miles/400 kms.

63 litres, 120c a litre approx.