Whats your MPG?

smoking_kills

@Donnelly117 Its a B5

@shinkansen Yeah its a lovely car, bit "soft" but a lovely drive and plenty of power

Baldandold

BMW 520 27mpg loads of fun and comfort

MuppetCheck

t8010789 wrote: »

Ashtown to blessington. Best 75mpg going there, 93mpg heading back. Octavia tdi 90bhp. I always have a queue behind me!

Whats the overall?

mullingar

t8010789 wrote: »

Ashtown to blessington. Best 75mpg going there, 93mpg heading back. Octavia tdi 90bhp. I always have a queue behind me!

If you pullover as soon as you have a few cars behind you to let them pass it is proven to add 10mpg to any slow cars economy, due to, em, aerodynamics and consideration to other drivers.

t8010789

t8010789 wrote: »

Ashtown to blessington. Best 75mpg going there, 93mpg heading back. Octavia tdi 90bhp. I always have a queue behind me!

Not a hope unless you were being towed.

tossy

t8010789 wrote: »

Ashtown to blessington. Best 75mpg going there, 93mpg heading back. Octavia tdi 90bhp. I always have a queue behind me!

I think you are reading the instant MPG figure and taking the highest this changes constantly,you need to read the average MPG figure this is the figure with the circle with diagonal slash through it next to it.

t8010789

I know it's hard to believe, the recent cold spell is bringing it down but would still expect 80mpg coming from blessington. She's well bedded in at 214000mls.

MuppetCheck

t8010789 wrote: »

I know it's hard to believe, the recent cold spell is bringing it down but would still expect 80mpg coming from blessington. She's well bedded in at 214000mls.

How many miles to a tank and how are you calculating it?

t8010789

MuppetCheck wrote: »

How many miles to a tank and how are you calculating it?

On a 60e fill I would get 600 to 630mls.

00833827

2005 Toyota Avensis 1.6 petrol - about 6.7l/100km (42.16mpg) - all flat N roads, 60 miles a day - generally keeping to the limit, not pushing on but not on watching the gauge either

MuppetCheck

That's up to 76mpg average. That's an incredibly hard one to achieve...

Heroditas

2005 BMW 523i SE manual - currently reading 30.1MPG for the last 2000 miles I've done.
Mix of short hops to and from work (8 mile trip each way) and a few trips up and down the motorways.

shinkansen

MuppetCheck wrote: »

That's up to 76mpg average. That's an incredibly hard one to achieve...

he must be one of them drivers that drives at 30/40mph on main roads and annoys the hell out of everyone.

ironclaw

t8010789 wrote: »

On a 60e fill I would get 600 to 630mls.

€60 would get you 40L (8.8 Gallons) at €1.5 per litre at the pump. So if you are doing 630 miles on that, your doing 71.6MPG at best. And that's assuming everything is perfect. Honestly that seems way too good to be true.

1999 1.0L Yaris (Petrol) / 70KM N Road & M50 each day / ~45MPG

t8010789

shinkansen wrote: »

he must be one of them drivers that drives at 30/40mph on main roads and annoys the hell out of everyone.

Untrue. I don't drive slow, if I was on a 60mph speed limit road I would tend to be doing fifty. I don't accelerate hard and I'm one for coasting. My engine revs rarely exceed 2000.

I watch day in day out the drivers who join the m50 at the n3 and race to the fast lane while I stay in the left lane and nine times out of ten I end up passing them as they grind to a halt. When so many people complain about going to work why do they feel the need to race there when they get behind the wheel.

Heroditas

t8010789 wrote: »

Untrue. I don't drive slow, if I was on a 60mph speed limit road I would tend to be doing fifty. I don't accelerate hard and I'm one for coasting. My engine revs rarely exceed 2000.

50mph on a 60mph road? A load of people are going to say you drive slow.
Brace yourself.

ironclaw

Heroditas wrote: »

50mph on a 60mph road? A load of people are going to say you drive slow.
Brace yourself.

Can people please talk in km/h? There's a big difference.

If your doing 50mph on a 60mph road, your actually travelling at 17% below the posted limit. Provided road conditions allow its far too slow to be travelling. I'm happy for someone to be a shade (5 to 10%) under but any lower is ignorant especially if they are not periodically pulling in.

I'll put that another way, the relative equivalent of doing 50mph on a 60mph road is doing 65km/h in an 80km/h zone or 100 in a 120 (I'm not comparing speeds, just contrasting the situation)

I watch day in day out the drivers who join the m50 at the n3 and race to the fast lane while I stay in the left lane and nine times out of ten I end up passing them as they grind to a halt. When so many people complain about going to work why do they feel the need to race there when they get behind the wheel.

Agreed, but if everyone kept to a constant speed and followed the ROTR this would not occur. I spend a huge portion of my time avoiding center lane drivers travelling at 100km/h. This (correctly) forces me into the extreme right to over take. That lane becomes jammed eventually because of those who won't pull in.

Caliden

ironclaw wrote: »

Can people please talk in km/h? There's a big difference.

If your doing 50mph on a 60mph road, your actually travelling at 17% below the posted limit. Provided road conditions allow its far too slow to be travelling. I'm happy for someone to be a shade (5 to 10%) under but any lower is ignorant especially if they are not periodically pulling in.

I'll put that another way, the relative equivalent of doing 50mph on a 60mph road is doing 65km/h in an 80km/h zone or 100 in a 120 (I'm not comparing speeds, just contrasting the situation)



Agreed, but if everyone kept to a constant speed and followed the ROTR this would not occur. I spend a huge portion of my time avoiding center lane drivers travelling at 100km/h. This (correctly) forces me into the extreme right to over take. That lane becomes jammed eventually because of those who won't pull in.

But....but....the MPG?!?!

Heroditas

ironclaw wrote: »

Can people please talk in km/h? There's a big difference.

There's a big difference?
Between what? 50mph and 80kmph?
They're both measures of speed.

Anyway, regarding the other poster's speed of driving, I agree with you.

shinkansen

people who drive and worry about the price of petrol and/or MPG constantly are the most annoying of drivers out there.

Driving is meant to be an enjoyable experience, not constantly crapping yourself how many miles you get on a tank.

shinkansen

shinkansen wrote: »

people who drive and worry about the price of petrol and/or MPG constantly are the most annoying of drivers out there.

Driving is meant to be an enjoyable experience, not constantly crapping yourself how many miles you get on a tank.

Say that when it's costing you over 3,000 a year in fuel!

Ardennes1944

First 2days of 325 ownership....40e got me 110miles

shinkansen

Deleted User wrote: »

Say that when it's costing you over 3,000 a year in fuel!

ca 2,000gbp a year, that's pretty much worst case scenario.

Well a lot pay more and to all of us long distance drivers every mpg counts as its less tax to the Government so we can spend it as we choose and not how they say.

Sure I could take a bus and end up home 2 hours later, so it's essential I can afford to drive to work so I can continue to pay my way and not live off the tax payer.

I now have another temporary job and involves going through the toll twice a day that would cost me an extra 1000 a year if I had to do it every day.

But now I'm spending 65 a week on petrol and 20 euros a week on tolls. Paying a toll for a few Kms each way is madness when someone coming from Liffey valley can go all the way to Arklow and not pay a penny , it's completely messed up.

How much more do they think people can take ?

So you may not like to hear it but it's a harsh reality for a lot of people who have 0 choice.

Cash is king

Superb 2.0 diesel only doing about 44MPG driving like a snail. 55MPG me hole.

Cash is king

Cash is king wrote: »

Superb 2.0 diesel only doing about 44MPG driving like a snail. 55MPG me hole.

Isn't that the boxer ?

What's that like to drive ?

EDIT

Gobsheite

I read superb as Subaru! LOL

Cash is king

Deleted User wrote: »

Isn't that the boxer ?

What's that like to drive ?

No just a Combi (estate), nice to drive allright but I am not pushed on the exterior. My old one was the same on juice too albeit it was only 140 BHP. Thats why I am very skeptical of oh my vag diesel does 9999999 miles to a tank of juice..

See your edit now lol!!!

Donnelly117

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

First 2days of 325 ownership....40e got me 110miles

You bought a 325? I thought you were in the market for a Corsa OPc? Or did you give up trying to find one (they are like hens teeth here!!!)
Nice car though...is it a ci?

coolisin

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Say that when it's costing you over 3,000 a year in fuel!

I do and more, and sometimes I just say its fun to drive a little hard and knock the mpg a little.
And I pay big road tax but I guess I just half keep the country running with my fuel bills and road tax.

YbFocus

Got ourselves a 530d a fortnight ago, after settling down now she's returning 37mpg on the motorway at 120kmh cruising.
If you drive it on by god does that go down, I've seen 26mpg on one drive.

Wouldn't give it back though, the torque!!!!