Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Please note that it is not permitted to have referral links posted in your signature. Keep these links contained in the appropriate forum. Thank you.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055940817/signature-rules

Whats your MPG?

1246716

Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 eoin.obrien1


    2005 Audi A6 2.0 Tdi 46.5mpg 80% motorway miles


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 Bechermann


    Very interesting reading some of the figures here.

    My '95 Corolla G-Touring 1.5 is doing around 6.2L/100km. 80% motorway/national roads, the rest is urban and some backroads.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭robertxxx


    2010 Toyota prius 120mpg. Mixed driving.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,438 ✭✭✭bladespin


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

    For real? :confused: That's pretty amazing considering the factory only claimed 38 at best lol.
    Untitled Image

    MasteryDarts Ireland - Master your game!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,438 ✭✭✭bladespin


    robertxxx wrote: »
    2010 Toyota prius 120mpg. Mixed driving.

    How on earth did you manage that? :eek:

    Linky
    Untitled Image

    MasteryDarts Ireland - Master your game!



  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭Ronnie Beck


    robertxxx wrote: »
    2010 Toyota prius 120mpg. Mixed driving.

    You don't include the miles done on the bus to work ;).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 Teekasaurus


    Mazda 323f 2002 1.6 Petrol

    37 to 39 mpg, mixed driving. Happy enough with it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭Faing


    04 Honda Jazz, 500-600km every week, mix of town and country, always averages 52-54mpg.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 265 ✭✭GE90


    robertxxx wrote: »
    2010 Toyota prius 120mpg. Mixed driving.

    Id still be suspicious if you claimed to achieve half that mpg. What are you basing this on ?


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


    Faing wrote: »
    04 Honda Jazz, 500-600km every week, mix of town and country, always averages 52-54mpg.

    Thats pretty impressive.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭db330


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

    That's pretty good for an X5


    05 Pajero 3.2
    Averaging 28mpg doing 40% town, 30% motorway, 30% country roads,

    But got 43ish doing 90% motorway at 80 - 90 kmph. Which is decent for its size,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Drove the Xantia on a long drive down the country with a luggage and 5 people over the weekend. Averaging 140km/h-ish on the motorway. MPG never dropped below 40mpg.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 550 ✭✭✭enumbers


    db330 wrote: »
    That's pretty good for an X5


    05 Pajero 3.2
    Averaging 28mpg doing 40% town, 30% motorway, 30% country roads,

    But got 43ish doing 90% motorway at 80 - 90 kmph. Which is decent for its size,

    That very good the range rover we have with same engine is doind 23mpg average


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,106 ✭✭✭SpannerMonkey


    22.2 average

    was 27mpg before i put an AFE intake on it

    30 mpg on a run

    35mpg if i reallty pamper it

    Bmw 645Ci 4.4 V8

    WORTH IT :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭Arciphel


    Honda Civic 2.2l diesel i-DTEC

    Urban ~37 MPG with stop/start on.

    Motorway driving at 120km/h in sixth gear have achieved ~61 MPG.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭Eireann81


    2001 BMW 525i Manual

    Motorway: 32mpg

    City: 25mpg


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


    It's worth mentioning that I was getting about 15MPG, I changed my Lambda sensor and my fuel consumption rocketed down to 17MPG.
    I probably recovered the cost of the sensor back in about 3 weeks of driving.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,439 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    2000 Corolla, 1.4 petrol.

    50% national roads, 45% rural roads, 5% town.

    Very aggressive driving.

    11litres/100km

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭anthony4335


    Kia C'eed , 33.6 urban and 39.8 motorway


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


    I was always under the impression that 50MPG was the ideal target for great fuel consumption, am I right in saying that or is 35MPG acceptable?


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭September1


    3mpkWh here... not sure how it translates into mpg


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    Renault Twingo GT 40mpg all rural


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,830 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    mp22 wrote: »
    Renault Twingo GT 40mpg all rural

    Fun little car I'd say:)


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


    advertsfox wrote: »
    I was always under the impression that 50MPG was the ideal target for great fuel consumption, am I right in saying that or is 35MPG acceptable?

    That's impossible to say as it depends entirely on the car. 10MPG could be fantastically good for some cars.


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


    Good point, say then a 1.2 to 1.4 petrol doing motorway and city driving...


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


    advertsfox wrote: »
    Good point, say then a 1.2 to 1.4 petrol doing motorway and city driving...

    Depends entirely on the car.

    A yaris has a 1.0 engine and great fuel consumption because it's very light and not horrendous in terms of aerodynamics.

    put a 1.2 or a 1.4 engine into something that weighs 2 ton and is as aerodynamic as a brick, and you've no hope of decent fuel consumption.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭markoire


    Honda s2000 Ap1: 25-28 mpg. Could probably do 30 if I was being really careful! (Just sold as buying a house :mad: )
    Vw Passat 1.9 tdi 130: 48 mpg on Motorway, 60 mpg when taking it a bit easier! Almost twice the MPG but half the fun!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    N17er wrote: »
    I have an interest in this lately myself.

    Honda civic 2006 ep1 (old shape) 1.4l

    I took some tips off an American hypermiler website called cleanmpg.com and have gone from 7.9 l/100km (36mpg) to 4.9 l/100km (58mpg).

    All i changed was driving habits, i don't go over 100kph unless necessary, i go 80kph mostly, pumped tyres to maximum sidewall px, treat accelerator like an egg. Lots more small things all on that website.

    Just to clarify im not driving like a granny with lines of cars behind me, its just anticipating better. Since i started doing this its actually incredible the amount of people who speed and get pissed off behind people who do the speed limit. not on a high horse or anything i used to constantly break the limit and get angry with 'slow' drivers.

    Forgot to say its approx 60% urban and 40% motorway. Also im not relying on the trip computer mpg reading i fill the near empty tank and divide in km's....

    I changed my driving style to the one described here a couple of years ago and got an extra 10mpg out of it.

    00 Ford Focus 1.4l. 45mpg for 100% motorway run
    41mpg for combined driving, probably 60% motorway, 40% urban


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


    Some of the figures being quoted are fanciful at best..


    Just a point to note, pumping tyres to max pressure is a dumb thing to do. Firstly, it wears the tyre out quickly. Secondly it gives you a harsher ride and thirdly and most importantly it reduces the footprint of the tyre on the road, in wet conditions this will increase your stopping distance.


  • Advertisement
  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    Fun little car I'd say:)
    Yep 100 bhp 980 kilos it can make your licence very nervous.


Advertisement