I don't drive at all conservatively, its normally flat out until I hit traffic or other such limits such as how safe it is to travel at a certain speed on a road lol

 

Depending which routes I go to work .... sometimes its A and B routes not limited by traffic so get the worst economy based on my trip computer, but then sometimes when I take another route I'm regulated by traffic but the roads straighter and more even speeds and probably can't accelerate so well, and can see from trip it tends to balance out with far better then.

 

Its generally urban to extra urban and never motorways unfortunately for the most part.

 

So on the basis of at least a dozen receipts I've worked out I get 50mpg (real) over the last few months based on actually keeping receipts and writing the mileage on each receipt

(actually might have had beneficial at the tail end of this, as I've had my aircon serviced in the last month)

Seems pretty good for mostly non motorways !

Edited 3 January, 201511 yr by dominorising

Commute 40 miles a day, the majority of it on A and B roads,

Mk1 vrs SE I get 400-425 miles from a full tank of fuel. Costs £43 to fill, I generally refuel with 40/50 miles left on the trip computer, so you could say 450 miles a tank if I let my fuel get down lower before refuelling.

See my signature for mpg achieved over 62000+ miles. Trip 1 and 2 consistently show over 55 mpg and, as a rule of thumb, I reduce those figures by a quarter to arrive at a real world figure. For example, on a trip back from York, cruising at 60mph on the A1 to see how economical the car could be, Trip 1 recorded 80 mpg whereas the brim to brim figure was 60 mpg.

43.66mpg over the last 17,000 miles for me.

The trip computer on my BLT engined car says 66.5mpg over the last 8000 miles.

The fill-to-fill actual figure is 53.7mpg.

I'm happy with that on a 230,000 mile car, albeit one that is maintained rather than serviced ie. I replace bits long before they need replacing.

Good to see some decent MPG's there guys!

- I'm not brutal on my car but no slouch either so its really good to confirm the real world MPG given that the trip computer does seem to be a bit optomistic !

I get about 45 mpg out of mine. Before a tyre change it was at closer to 50mpg on long runs. 

Commute 40 miles a day, the majority of it on A and B roads,

Mk1 vrs SE I get 400-425 miles from a full tank of fuel. Costs £43 to fill, I generally refuel with 40/50 miles left on the trip computer, so you could say 450 miles a tank if I let my fuel get down lower before refuelling.

very similar to mine driving sensibly, not bad for 240 odd bhp

Just did 460 miles on £60 of V-Power diesel, not many spirited drives over xmas period

Can be as low as 350 miles to a tank though.

Seems to be ASZ fuel computers are pretty accurate, where as BLT ones tell you what you want to hear!

Over the last 750 miles my car has consumed £100 of V Power diesel and I worked that back to 44mpg.  However it has done a lot of short journies in cold weather so this doesn't surprise me too much.  Not losing too much economy given I am running big ass 130% injector nozzles as well.

Just refilled mine after lots of stop start town/dual carriageway driving and a few motorway blasts at 75mph ish and its done 44.5mpg, not too shabby

Oh and the computer has said i've done 46.8mpg over the last 3000miles including a 900 mile round trip to scotland so it may be pretty accurate

Over the last 95,500 miles my vRS has achieved an average of 44.53mpg.

 

SN

Edited 6 January, 201511 yr by Steve Neate

Consistently 50mpg in the winter and 55 - 60mpg summer.

Out of interest what RPM at a steady speed gives the best MPG? For example I can tootle at a constant indicated 63/64ish at 5th at around 2300/2400, or 6th at the same speed just under 2000.

45-55mpg depending how much I'm behaving. Winter tyres and diesel have knocked it down to the lower end.

Same engine and platform, but it's the Spanish version.

Out of interest what RPM at a steady speed gives the best MPG? For example I can tootle at a constant indicated 63/64ish at 5th at around 2300/2400, or 6th at the same speed just under 2000.

Lower revs will give better economy, but not if your labouring the engine.

I find circa 1600rpm is too low in 6th, and the engine is happier then dropping to 5th.

The 1series BMW 320d is doing 1700rpm cruising at 70mph, where as the sportier geared 123d is doing 2200rpm at 70mph, same engines in both cars but the 120d gives quite a bit better mpg motorway cruising.

There was massive discussion some years back about what the optimum speed/gear combination was for fuel economy.

The consensus seemed to be that you wanted the highest engine revs that didn't spin up the turbo so 1400-1700rpm was supposedly the optimum but, as coskev pointed out, that doesn't always feel right as the car can feel like it's labouring, especially if you have the long final drive ratio gearbox.

I don't really see much difference so long as I keep the car between 1500rpm and 2500rpm. In that range I routinely see 70-80mpg indicated although the car is genuinely doing 20mpg less than indicated. Anything above 2500rpm and the car definitely uses more fuel.

On long high-speed runs in Germany I was generally averaging 40-45mpg at a steady 120mph.

Of course I like driving quickly but I tend to stick to the speed limits around town and what not and according to my in car meter I'm getting 33.9mpg? I won't get more than 45 on a rum (Usually around 40) Thats ASZ Engine with Straight through pipe, EGR delete, S2k filter and a remap

Realistically, I get 45-50. Slightly "claggy" M25 in the summer @ 25C and traffic generally doing 60-70 MPH, then I can manage 60+.... just!

I tend to leave the car in 5th until doing a constant 60mph.

Otherwise 4th for 40mph etc.

Depends on roads, traffic and conditions obviously. Change down a gear before a hill if traffic bunching blah blah

I only really drive it round town, and not to work, often short journeys :/ 

 

Average over the last 3 months has been 31.6 mpg.. I drive to enjoy it so its rather spritely to say the least. 

 

a £45 Tank gets me about 310-330 Miles on average. About a months worth of driving for me...

 

 a lot better than my old polo and a hell of a lot more fun to drive!! 

Just filled up...

39 litres

£45.49

454.7 miles

64mpg on trip

53mpg calculated

42.9 calculated for 30k, then change the turbo and currently gone up to 44 with nearly all City driving since.

I get between 59-63mpg from my 07 SE using the brim to brim method!

I use the ventectomy thingy when I fill it up and get over 700 miles to a tank ;-)

In fact,I've usually done 450 miles when it hits half a tank! Haha