What's your average MPG?

ChrisHarris1

Mine hovers around 20mpg

Reply 1

Friggerpants

Oh so you're JusDOrange.

I thought you were Traintracks!

Reply 2

Nuffles

Sticking around 45mpg at the moment. Probably 75/25 city/motorway. My highest is 58mpg and lowest is about 36 I think? It's gotten slightly better on average since I fitted bigger injectors. More power and more economy, who can complain?!

http://www.fuelly.com/driver/camerajack/golf

(And no, my miles/dates aren't lying, I fairly regularly put down 200-400 miles in day or so. My average is around 200 miles/week but I do quite a lot of motorway/long distance driving too).

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Reply 3

Sgt.Incontro

Hovering around 25MPG at the moment, purely urban start/stop driving.

During winter, the figure for the exact same driving conditions was around 22MPG.

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Reply 4

dhr90

Around 39MPG I think, but I drive slow as hell to get that, boring, but 90% of the time I end up at the same set of lights 6 miles down the road as the people who fly past and jump on the brakes at the last moment. Difference is they paid more to get there in that time.

Reply 5

ChrisHarris1

Original post by Friggerpants

Oh so you're JusDOrange.

I thought you were Traintracks!

Who?

But yes that's the effect of a heavy right foot

Reply 6

LJStudent

I do about 40-45mpg, '05 BMW 118d.

Reply 7

JC.

16 on a run. 12 ish round town?

Reply 8

mattcam94

38.6 atm, not sure why it's so low for a 1.2, highest I've had it is about 42mpg

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Reply 9

Thou & Thee

ranging from I guess 27- 33 MPG I think, very rarely if I'm lucky about 37 - 38 including motorway driving

I drive as easy and eco as possible as well most of the time

Reply 10

username1103249

Mine's 42mpg and doesn't really change at all. Mainly do city driving and back country roads, have a lot of time stuck in traffic in town but doesn't seem to make much of a difference! My car is a 1.6L Mini One 👌

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Reply 11

4.2.0

40mpg in a new 1.2 Fiat 500 driving in suburbs

Reply 12

MrWhosane

47 mpg, in mi Vectra DTi

Reply 13

username158373

52mpg town driving 1.6 TDI

Drove a ford focus estate ecomotive last week through work and it managed 60+mpg for the entire trip regardless of how I drove it. Scorcery involved in think!

Reply 14

Walter Ego

Original post by mattcam94

38.6 atm, not sure why it's so low for a 1.2, highest I've had it is about 42mpg

It's not just the car and its engine, but how you drive it. I used to have a 1.2 Corsa that struggled to get 24, but that's because it didn't have enough power to pull the skin off a rice pudding and thus I used to thrash the bum off it to try and get it to do something. I also had a Subaru Impreza WRX that I managed to get 33mpg from.
If you want more MPG then look and plan well ahead to try and maintain speed, trying to never brake and certainly not stop if at all possible. Reacting late and jumping on the brakes to a stop is most peoples mistake. Adjust speed in plenty of time down by downshifting and using engine braking, which shuts the fuelling system down while on over-run. The less speed you shed, the less you have to regain. Gaining speed uses lots of fuel, sitting still uses a little fuel. Maintaining speed uses a little, slowing on over-run uses none. Braking simply throws away all the hard work and money spent achieving momentum. Try to never use gas when going downhill, and minimal brake use to control speed. If you're on the gas, you need a higher gear. If you're braking too much, either you need a lower gear, or it's a really steep hill that engine braking can't control.

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Reply 15

mattcam94

Original post by Walter Ego

Yeah I get that but I mean I have a blackbox so it sort of requires me to drive calmly giving enough time for steady breaking etc

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Walter Ego

Original post by mattcam94

Yeah I get that but I mean I have a blackbox so it sort of requires me to drive calmly giving enough time for steady breaking etc

You can still drive calmly. The snooper monitors your rates of acceleration and deceleration, not how you achieve them. As long as you don't exceed speed limits or drive erratically then it will be happy.