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onephat

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Just wondering what kind of MPG you guys get out of your cars? Just sold my 2007 Fiesta ST which you were lucky to get 27 and thats if you drove sensibly. Just chopped it in for a clio dci, on a 11 mile urban test drive round leicester then 6 miles down the motorway it averaged 78mpg. Combine that road tax of £35 makes me a happy chappy.
 
Because I'm a geek and a little sad, I used to keep a program on my PDA that allowed you to record each fill up you did: using this over the course of a year, I ascertained that my car does about 51.2 miles to the gallon.

My car however is not much to look at; it's a 1994 Citroen ZX with a 1.9 litre diesel engine - no turbo on it so in terms of getting places, it's not the fastest car off the block (still, at least that makes it very unlikely for me to be caught speeding!)

[YOUTUBE]pe4SVy28iB0[/YOUTUBE]Still, if you're looking for a second hand car that's good for MPG, I'd recommend something like mine: my brother's apparently tempted by the new Polo that VW have released - emissions so low that it's effectively free to tax :rolleyes:
 
Lol, I wish. Petrol V6 Mondeo, lucky if I get 30.5 out of it even driving carefully on the motorway. Having said that it doesn't drop below 29 in town.
And I had a gas conversion done on it a couple of years ago so in the few filling stations with gas, its comparatively cheap as chips...
Having said that I put £64.xx in yesterday when I filled it with petrol....
 
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My little Smart Roadster will do around 50MPG with Unleaded 95 in and up to 60MPG with Unleaded 98/99, though I still have to stump up £115 in road tax despite those silly hybrids being less fuel efficient :) .
 
Still, if you're looking for a second hand car that's good for MPG, I'd recommend something like mine: my brother's apparently tempted by the new Polo that VW have released - emissions so low that it's effectively free to tax :rolleyes:

The new Polo Blue4motion thing isn't all its cracked up to be. If you read the reviews it's incredbily hard to keep it above 60mpg and around town the engine is reving at less than 900rpm - which can't surely be good for it. Apperntly the 1.4TDI standard Polo returns almost the same level of performance and mpg. I think it's also a great deal cheaper.

How does the car run on gas by the way, i've seen loads of people filling up with it but never spoke to anyone about speed/performance and most importantly mpg, as if it produces lower mpg than petrol i guess the savings, dispite the tax are not that great?
 
My little Smart Roadster will do around 50MPG with Unleaded 95 in and up to 60MPG with Unleaded 98/99, though I still have to stump up £115 in road tax despite those silly hybrids being less fuel efficient :) .

Was it on top gear that the toyota hybrid actually did less mpg that the lupo gti or something?
 
Was it on top gear that the toyota hybrid actually did less mpg that the lupo gti or something?

Depends on the type of driving - on motorways the hybrids had little or no benefit (soetimes actually doing worse) but in urgam stop/start traffic, they clearly did better.

Anyways, in June I updated from an R-Reg Mazada 323 that gave 34 MPG to a 56-reg diesel Mondeo that gives 41 to 45 mpg, depending on how heavy my foot is (usually pretty heavy) and how often my turbo kicks in.
 
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How does the car run on gas by the way, i've seen loads of people filling up with it but never spoke to anyone about speed/performance and most importantly mpg, as if it produces lower mpg than petrol i guess the savings, dispite the tax are not that great?

It works fine. I've got a prob with the switch over valve at the mo so its very lurchy changing from gas to petrol, but it used to be no more noticable than a bump in the road.

MPG, about 27 on gas (bearing in mind I only get 30 on petrol).

Power output - down a little, just about noticable maybe if you drive 40k per year in the same car and know it like the back of your hand. Certainly no worse than putting the aircon on in a 1.8 petrol or something.

Overall, its costs less than half petrol, you get about 5% less mpg hence overall saving massive once you've offset the install which is steep in a V6 but given my mileage paid back in less than a year.

Having said all this, I think I will get an oil burner next!
 
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I keep meaning to check mine, a 1.1 getz. Unfortunatly I live and work in an extremely hilly area, which I think would actually get better MPG from a higher engine as I have to rev higher to get up these hills.

Interestingly, I can choose between 2 routes to my mums in Wales which is just over an hour away.

Miles roughly the same, but one is twisty roads and the other motorway.

The fuel consumption seemed *much* less on the twisty roads compared to the motorway.
 
Mpg

My previous car was a Toyota RAV4 2 litre petrol which I had from new. Over the three year period that I had it the overall mpg was 42.5mpg. I admit I don't do much town driving but over that period a lot of my mileage was motorway, some of it towing a small sports car.

As a result of the increase in VED on so called Chelsea Tractors I downsized. I now have Suzuki SX4 1.6 petrol and I'm lucky if I get 35mpg.

I had a 2 day test drive of a Skoda Roomster 1.9TDI deisel and if the trip computer was accurate (other tests seem to confirm it) I was getting 54mpg.
So next time it will definitely be an oil burner.

Fred
 
The fuel consumption seemed *much* less on the twisty roads compared to the motorway.

I find I get much better fuel economy on A roads and country roads as my speed is likely to stay around 60mph, and if I do slow down and accelerate it ternds to be done pretty gently. Motorways seem to get less MPH becuase I find they are either stop/start or a contantly higher speed (not necessarily sticking striclty to the speed limit).

g6zru said:
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I had a 2 day test drive of a Skoda Roomster 1.9TDI deisel and if the trip computer was accurate (other tests seem to confirm it) I was getting 54mpg.
So next time it will definitely be an oil burner.

I tend to find the trip computer reading on my Mondea is 1.5 - 2.5mph out - always giving a higher MPG reading than I'm actually getting.
 
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My previous car was a Toyota RAV4 2 litre petrol which I had from new. Over the three year period that I had it the overall mpg was 42.5mpg. I admit I don't do much town driving but over that period a lot of my mileage was motorway, some of it towing a small sports car.

As a result of the increase in VED on so called Chelsea Tractors I downsized. I now have Suzuki SX4 1.6 petrol and I'm lucky if I get 35mpg.

I had a 2 day test drive of a Skoda Roomster 1.9TDI deisel and if the trip computer was accurate (other tests seem to confirm it) I was getting 54mpg.
So next time it will definitely be an oil burner.

Fred

The engine in the roomster is the same one that i had in my Skoda Fabia vRS a year ago. It's a great bit of kit and even if you give it some stick you'll struggle to get it below 35-40 mpg and if your sensible you'll expect anywhere from 50-60 easily.
 
I have a 1990 Toyota Celica 2.0GTi which does around 35mpg if you take it steady and between 23~25 if you give it some! which tbh im quite pleased with.

I really hope they dont introduce a nationwide road charge via the GPS tracking system, In my opinion I think it will be a disaster, whats everyone else think? and from the '1984' point of view do you really want 'them' to know where you are, where you go, when you go and how fast you drive???

:confused:
 
I really hope they dont introduce a nationwide road charge via the GPS tracking system, In my opinion I think it will be a disaster, whats everyone else think? and from the '1984' point of view do you really want 'them' to know where you are, where you go, when you go and how fast you drive???

:confused:

I hope any road charging system charges the wealthy more than the poor, it shouldn't be an excuse to clear the roads for higher earners. As for 1984 I think it's too late -

Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years.

Using a network of cameras that can automatically read every passing number plate, the plan is to build a huge database of vehicle movements so that the police and security services can analyse any journey a driver has made over several years.

The network will incorporate thousands of existing CCTV cameras which are being converted to read number plates automatically night and day to provide 24/7 coverage of all motorways and main roads, as well as towns, cities, ports and petrol-station forecourts.


http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article334686.ece

:hrmph:
 
I will get you a photo of one of these very devices! you can tell if they are a part of the CCTV system by the type of kit installed on the pole. They have some german made IP cameras, which on the suppliers site advertises the ability to read number plates! they have wireless transmit equipment which I believe is some kind of 3G/EDGE type reporting system, judging by the type and size of antenna...also the the obvious giveaway is the sign underneath the kit that says "THIS IS NOT A SPEED CAMERA IS IT A WEATHER STATION"

They are bizzare keep your eyes out for them, they are also in the weirdest places!
 
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I have a Saxo VTS which I recon I get about 25-30 out of it I've never clocked it (my right foot weights 50% of my overall body weight).
 
I have a 1.4 Nissan Almera and get 10 miles to the litre. 45.4 MPG
4 evenings per week I suffer through Lancaster at "rush hour" oin my way to work. 14 miles each way. It takes me about 45 minutes going. Only 25 minutes coming home at 04-00
 
You would all improve your MPG if you could fill up on continental fuel.
My Toyota Previa does 20mpg round Malvern ( all hills) and 27mpg @75mph on the motorway, but I fill it up 1/2 way across France (cheaper), and at the same speed it turns in 30mpg, including the climb up the Alps in 1st and 2nd gear for the ski season.
 
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