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Whats your MPG?

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  • #62
    TrailerBob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭TrailerBob


    03 Landcruiser 3.0 D4D (old shape)

    Average of 29.4 mpg over the last 35k miles - will do well over 30 on a long run.
    Got 460 miles from a 62 litre fill last year through France.

    Although pulling the 14ft trailer that drops significantly! Pulls like a train though...


  • #63
    DylanII
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭DylanII


    2001 1.6 3 door focus - 31MPG 40% motorway 60% town


  • #64
    Armin_Tamzarian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Armin_Tamzarian


    17 MPG, at best.
    In a turbo Supra.


  • #65
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    2006 Nissan X-Trail
    2.2 DCi
    65K miles on the clock.

    Country driving, ~650km a week

    37mpg. 32mpg with a loaded trailer

    I use road trip lite on the iphone and Excel spreadsheet.


  • #66
    reb73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭reb73


    650Ginge wrote: »

    There is no way a 520d is getting 55 unless you never get over 80k/h. The average on 100's of 520d on spritmonitor is 41.

    80kph is not an absolute threshold and spirit monitor is not the definitive be all and end all of mpg figures.. For a six speed diesel weighing as much as the E60 does, driving at 80mpg will reduce mpg if anything and I'd be close to stalling the car on slight inclines in the sixth gear at this speed.

    I tend to drive between 90-103 kmph on the motorway (mostly off-peak admittedly) , tend not to brake until absolutely necessary and rarely do city driving.

    Oh and this mpg figure is over a 3 year period by the way and I couldn't care less if you are convinced or not..


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  • #67
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,569 ✭✭✭166man


    MuppetCheck wrote: »
    It's getting old already.

    By the amount of RS4 TDI's on the road, it's not that old. Light-hearted banter knowing full well Bohrio's car is a minter...;)


  • #68
    jsd1004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jsd1004


    Alfa 156 2.0 7 litres 100km mixed
    Lotus 340r really sh!t considering it weighs 600kgs


  • #69
    Idleater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,176 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Back this evening having done 700km over the weekend to Donegal and back at 6.0 l/100k on the computer, and pretty much identical petrol receipts.
    1.4 turbo MiTo.
    Normally it's about 7.2 around Dublin.


  • #70
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    In sig.


  • #71
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    E38 735 - 30mpg @ 80mph motorway, 16mpg urban.
    Trans Am - 15mpg @ 80mph motorway, urban - no comment! :D


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  • #72
    jar18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭jar18


    65 mpg
    yaris d4d
    06
    mostly country roads with big hills


  • #73
    DaSchmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭DaSchmo


    1983 Ford Capri 2.0s, last two times I calculated it I got:

    26 MPG driving mainly around town, fairly liberal with the accelerator

    35 MPG driving mainly on motorway at or just above 100kmh most of the time

    Probably averages 30


  • #74
    BArra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭BArra


    2006 focus st

    23mpg

    mainly short drives


  • #75
    650Ginge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 817 ✭✭✭650Ginge


    reb73 wrote: »

    80kph is not an absolute threshold and spirit monitor is not the definitive be all and end all of mpg figures.. For a six speed diesel weighing as much as the E60 does, driving at 80mpg will reduce mpg if anything and I'd be close to stalling the car on slight inclines in the sixth gear at this speed.

    I tend to drive between 90-103 kmph on the motorway (mostly off-peak admittedly) , tend not to brake until absolutely necessary and rarely do city driving.

    Oh and this mpg figure is over a 3 year period by the way and I couldn't care less if you are convinced or not..

    You went to a lot of effort to post that if you don't careless. I am sure you are right it is possible to get plus 50+ from a 520d.

    You're right about 80k/h, it is not the be all and end for 99.9% of cars the most economical speed is much lower, in the case the Prius, Toyota have a graph showing mpg of 124 but at 38mph. Great figure but not very realistic.


  • #76
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    05 E46 320cd - Mixed: 43.5 MPG, mostly using cruise control tbh


  • #77
    thecomedian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭thecomedian


    2004 Audi TT 3.2 DSG
    24.5 mpg


  • #78
    savagecabbages
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 869 ✭✭✭savagecabbages


    Met a guy who had a V10 Touareg before. He commented that it did 15mpg full stop!

    15 mpg on a motorway
    15mpg in town
    15mpg towing a trailer


  • #79
    Armin_Tamzarian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Armin_Tamzarian


    savagecabbages wrote: »
    Met a guy who had a V10 Touareg before. He commented that it did 15mpg full stop!

    15 mpg on a motorway
    15mpg in town
    15mpg towing a trailer

    Must have been a really nice Touareg.


  • #80
    Slidey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭Slidey


    08 Gti

    Only filled it once since I bought it, got 28.9 mpg. According to the trip computer I normally average between low 8's to high 10's per 100ks

    Worked out by brimming the tank.

    Would imagine it will improve once I stop flooring it away from the lights all the time. AC is also on nearly all the time


  • #81
    areyawell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭areyawell


    Punto 03 1.2L 47.5 MPG


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  • #82
    NinjaK
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭NinjaK


    Honda Civic Type-R EP3 - 20-24mpg short urban drives, got 34 on motorway journey.


  • #83
    .Longshanks.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,718 ✭✭✭.Longshanks.


    2005 Peugeot 206 GTI 180
    All city. Around 18-22 mpg and couldn't care less


  • #84
    realgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 212 ✭✭realgirl


    bladespin wrote: »

    Fill the tank, reset the odometer, drive then refill, take note of the odometer reading and mileage, calculate from that, that's the only way I'd measure it.

    I use a free app called Fuel Friend Lite, you just put in the info when you fill up and it does all the calculations. Using it since March, my 1995 Suzuki Swift 1.0 gets 38 mpg, mostly suburban driving below 50km/hr.


  • #85
    excaliburhc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭excaliburhc


    166man wrote: »
    2001 Alfa 156 1.6 city driving, MPG = couldn't give a toss :pac:

    30mpg roughly...:D

    lol my hero

    2001 156 - 1.6 - all country driving - 30ish mpg there too :D..

    and hes right :) couldnt give a toss . i know my driving style costs me a good bit of petrol - probably 35- 40 if i driven properly :D


  • #86
    advertsfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭advertsfox


    Grande Punto 1.2 8V (beast) - getting 40-42MPG (6.6 L/100KM) mainly driving in Dublin. Getting 48MPG (6.0 L/100KM) when it's just local driving or motorway.

    Great to see the active reading at 5.0 L/100KM doing 120KPH ;) Horrible to see it at 15 L/100KPH cycling through the gears and well... trying to keep up :P


  • #87
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,986 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    2012 Focus 1.6TDCI - 57mpg.
    1979 Escort RS2000 - 12-30mpg (12mpg was a trackday).
    1996 Aprilia 650 - no idea but it's not great.

    p.s. Imaginary EvoVI - 28mpg :D


  • #88
    RootX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭RootX


    '08 Grande Punto T-Jet - 7.5 l/100 km (37.6 mpg), motorway & driving around Wicklow town.


  • #89
    alpahaeagle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭alpahaeagle


    98 MGF 1.8i @ 45 mpg MPG mixed, motorway and urban.


  • #90
    livingthedream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭livingthedream


    '03 BMW X5 3.0D
    32MPG consistantly with 70% motorway 30% city and a very light right foot :)


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  • #91
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,773 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    At the moment I'm getting 34-35 mpg for short trips arround town and driving for fun :).
    Over the summer when I was doing about 600km a week I was getting 39-41mpg.

    Car is a '99 Toyota Levin 1.6 20valve.


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