What MPG are you getting?

[Anonymous]

Following on from another thread just wondering what sort of MPG is everyone getting? I know this is not scientific but I'm sure will be of interest to potential buyers and owners.

Remember to specify what model you're driving and you're average driving conditions (e.g. motorway, town, boy racer etc etc)

 

[Anonymous]

156 GT... so far i'm clocking 37mpg. Thats a mix of rush-hour traffic and cruising about the countryside with a *little* bit of misbehaving.

From watching the figures when i'm not driving efficiently, I think you could easily drop the figure under 25mpg if you have a heavy right foot and ignore the gear change indicator all of the time.

 

[Anonymous]

HDI GT - Getting on average 49mpg! Thats a mixture of town, country lanes and a 3 mile stretch of dual carriageway and over 35 miles each way.

 

[Anonymous]

HDI GT - Getting on average 49mpg! Thats a mixture of town, country lanes and a 3 mile stretch of dual carriageway and over 35 miles each way.

Im getting 42 from my GT 163. This is on a mix of country roads that allow very good progress followed by badly congested dual carriage ways with LOTS of roundabouts! :crazy:

 

[FGRob]

I'm getting 37 mpg with an average speed of 26 mph out of this current tank full, 5 miles each way to and from plus some spirited driving nearly stage two spoiler (dual carriage way) Mines a 156 GT.

Rob. :thumbup:

 

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

I have the 156THP GT with manual gearbox.
I have just completed my first tank of fuel (well the petrol light has just come on), 364 miles completed, averaged 26mph and 39.1 mpg.
Majority of tdriving to and from work 12 miles each way, so car gets a chance to warm up, mix of dual carriage way and stop start traffic lights and roundabouts.
As under 1000 miles I am not yet pushing it above 3.500 rpm and trying to change gear when it recommends.
Hope this gives you an idea of performance.
Cheers
Bradders

 

[FGRob]

As under 1000 miles I am not yet pushing it above 3.500 rpm and trying to change gear when it recommends.

I'm not keeping it under 3500, that's a bit of old school thinking, you need to drive the car normally even up to the redline for short burst, these are modern engines and don't really need a run in, the most important is don't make it labour and try to vary your speed especially on the motorway, the only thing you do need to watch is bedding the brakes and tyres in.

One important fact that you do need to take into consideration, never - never turn the engine off after a good drive, always allow the rev's to drop and the temperature to settle, I normally let it settle for about 10 to 20 seconds, if you don't you could blow your turbo - be warned.

Rob.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the advice. I haven't owned a new car for a while and the last one mentioned running in in the manual, where as this one doesn't.
Not been mechanically minded can you expand on the points you made?
e.g what is the benefit of varying speed on the motorway and for how long to you need to carry this out?
The point on protecting the turbo I had heard of before, but thanks for the reminder.
Bradders

 

[FGRob]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the advice. I haven't owned a new car for a while and the last one mentioned running in in the manual, where as this one doesn't.
Not been mechanically minded can you expand on the points you made?
e.g what is the benefit of varying speed on the motorway and for how long to you need to carry this out?
The point on protecting the turbo I had heard of before, but thanks for the reminder.
Bradders

Hi Bradders.

Running at the same RPM for long distances tends to not to allow the engine to bed in correctly, you need a varied approach to ensure everything is running smoothly and together, most modern engines are pretty reliable these days and are built to take the abuse straight out the box.

There are some who believe you should give it full beans from the word go which makes for a faster engine, but you still have to remember there are other components on the car which do need a little time to bed in - brakes and tyres for certain.

Have a look at this, it's more related to bikes but the principal is the same http://www.ntnoa.org/enginebreakin.htm

I'm on my second tank full now, well nearly used, the average speed is up to 27 mph with a return of 40.3 mpg. :clap:

Rob.

 

[Anonymous]

yip me to 2nd tank of fuel 40.1mpg not bad at all :thumbup:

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the advice. I haven't owned a new car for a while and the last one mentioned running in in the manual, where as this one doesn't.
Not been mechanically minded can you expand on the points you made?
e.g what is the benefit of varying speed on the motorway and for how long to you need to carry this out?
The point on protecting the turbo I had heard of before, but thanks for the reminder.
Bradders

Hi Bradders.

Running at the same RPM for long distances tends to not to allow the engine to bed in correctly, you need a varied approach to ensure everything is running smoothly and together, most modern engines are pretty reliable these days and are built to take the abuse straight out the box.

There are some who believe you should give it full beans from the word go which makes for a faster engine, but you still have to remember there are other components on the car which do need a little time to bed in - brakes and tyres for certain.

Have a look at this, it's more related to bikes but the principal is the same http://www.ntnoa.org/enginebreakin.htm

I'm on my second tank full now, well nearly used, the average speed is up to 27 mph with a return of 40.3 mpg. :clap:

Rob.

Thanks Rob - very interesting article and I can see the relevance.
Appreciate the response.
Bradders

 

[Anonymous]

I suppose the principle of not flooring it until the engine is warm and oil has worked its way all round the engine is still valid. Do people still buy Molyslip as extra protection? I see they are advertising quite heavily again.

 

[FGRob]

I suppose the principle of not flooring it until the engine is warm and oil has worked its way all round the engine is still valid. Do people still buy Molyslip as extra protection? I see they are advertising quite heavily again.

Yep I always wait until the engine is up to temp before giving it some beans, can't see the need for Molyslip on modern engines, plus you need to run them a bit before you put the stuff in.

Rob.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm in a demonstrator GT HDI at the moment (4500 miles so well run in).

Did a 50 minute round trip today and thought I'd try a light right foot to see what mpg it would do. Averaged 58 mpg (and failed with the light right foot at some points!).

Had it averaging 70 mpg about half way round, but needed to inject a bit more fun into the driving. Still, nice to know you can eke out the diesel if you need to.

 

[t110jim]

did 300mile round trip at the weekend on A & b roads averaged 53 mpg in gt hdi

 

[Anonymous]

put it on cruise (hdi) at the end of the 90 miles motorway journey average was 60mpg, return journey with a little bit more traffic got just under 56mpg.

 

[Anonymous]

Driving to Dover I put it in 6th and plonked the cruise control on so reasonable driving apart from the odd overtake. Over 80 miles I averaged 50mpg - non-urban driving in low traffic but still pretty decent for a petrol engine! If experience from other cars follows it could still get a little bit more efficient about the 10k-15k point as the engine beds down.

 

[Anonymous]

These are amazing numbers. I needed to check a google calculator to know what mpg units are in liters/100 km and I am amazed. My 2 years old focus CC (diesel) is doing almost 27mpg now!!! (mix road-city traffic). Petrol is way more expensive but looking at these rates...it will cost me the same every month!!!

 

[Anonymous]

These are amazing numbers. I needed to check a google calculator to know what mpg units are in liters/100 km and I am amazed. My 2 years old focus CC (diesel) is doing almost 27mpg now!!! (mix road-city traffic). Petrol is way more expensive but looking at these rates...it will cost me the same every month!!!

Check if you are not converting using US values instead of UK values:

1 UK mpg = 0.83 US mpg = 0.35 km per litre = 2,82 litre per km

In my case:
- Peugeot 307CC 2.0HDI makes 7.7l/100km = 37mpg (current car)
- Peugeot RCZ 1.6 156hp made 11.9l/100km = 24mpg (in 120km testing, pedal to the medal...)

Waiting for RCZ 1.6 200hp since september 15th... Expected delivery date....january.

 

[Anonymous]

Actually 11.9l/100 is A LOT. Thats what an RC focus wastes with more than 200 hp and driving like being in a rally....

I don't know what values did I used, I have to ask google again about his, but 7.7 looks quite more close to real values rather than 12....

Thanks for the points