Fuel economy - how does your car rate?

Homer J Simpson

Just checking out what kind of fuel economy people are getting from their cars with regards town driving. Can you provide information such as how many miles to a full tank you get and what it costs to fill the tank.

Cheers.

Saruman

I have a 01 primera 1.6.
I get between 370 to 450 miles to a tank. Cost to fill. well today it cost me €48 at Tesco (95.9c/l)
Thats not too bad is it?

V1llianous

I have a 1.4 '97 Corolla.

Usually get 300 - 350 miles to a tank at €35 a tank.

Mine is 38.6 mpg just use the car for tricking around in the evenings and weekends:

Calculator yokey is here...

MPG Calculator

Homer J Simpson

I've a VW Golf 1.6 petrol. Full tank is 54.45eur at 99cents/litre.
I get about 385 miles for that which I think is dismal.

ds20prefecture

Homer J Simpson wrote:

Can you provide information such as how many miles to a full tank you get and what it costs to fill the tank.

From around €45, I get about 300 miles from a 1.6 Skoda Octavia. The trip computer shows an average of 28mpg in town and about 35mpg on the open road.

From about €35 I get about 200 miles from my Citroën DS. I work it out as about 19mpg average, rising to about 23mpg on long motorway trips. :eek:

I used to get around 35mpg from a 1.0 Seat Ibiza in town, and about 20mpg from a 2.0 Alfa 156.

I have a heavy right foot.....

jayok

Two cars

(Wifes) - 1.6 Civic cost to fill = €30. City = 37 MPG, Long run 48MPG. So the dash claims. Will get about 350 miles on a tank.

(Mine) - 2.0 Civic cost to fill = €35. City = 30 MPG, long run about 38 MPG. Get about 300 miles on a tank.

All depends on how you drive I suppose.

halkar

My car tells me I do 100km with 4.7 litre on average of 47kmh on diesel. Light comes on about 600 miles on 60 litre tank around €45-48 depends where I fill the tank. Sweeeeet
I drive 1.6HDI 110hp.

[edit] Changed my car's display from km to miles to see the conversion. 60mpg on avearge speed of 28mph. [/edit]

LoneGunM@n

On a full tank of about €44.00 @ 97.9c per litre of diesel, I get c.440 miles from a 2.0 TD Primera .... I'm happy with that considering I was getting 240 miles in the 1.25 Fiesta for €35.00!!

bazz26

03 Avensis 1.8 - 340 mile range - €50 full tank @ 95.9 per litre.

MPG - 29/30mpg in town, 35mpg on the open road.

So says the computer anyway.

Saruman

Wow my primera seems to be doing very well for a pertrol car Glad i bought it.
anyway the lower scale would be urban.. the higher is the open road.

Saruman

Wow my primera seems to be doing very well for a petrol car Glad i bought it.
anyway the lower scale would be urban.. the higher is the open road.

samo

01 Mondeo 1.8 Petrol €35 gets you approx 260 - 270 miles, I thought this was a bit crap and was regretting getting petrol over diesel but looks like it could be worse . Dont know the mpg on it but this is for motorway and city combined. Must fill it up next tim I've a good few quid and see what it gets me.

Also: 98 1.5 vtech Honda Civic €33 to fill it at 95.9 and get 310 miles exactly which aint bad.

Peace

Opel Vectra 1.9 Diesel - 550miles for a full tank - about 45mpg.

Tank cost is about 48euro... depends where i fill.

By my calculations (and i'm open to correction) thats 6.81 ltr's per 100km.

scargill

04 Audi A3 - 1.6 petrol

Full Tank: ~50 litres = ~390miles (costs around €47)

roughly around 35 mpg (combined)

TheFat

'00 Honda Civic 1.6 VTi
Cost to fill -: €35
~250 miles
Also
'96 Nissan Skyline 2.5 Turbo
Cost to fill -: €60
~200 miles

damo605

'93 Renault Safrane 2.0 Manual - Generally about 400 miles on a full tank which costs about 65 euro at 97.9c
26.5 mpg on average, bit over 30 mpg open road and as little as 11/12 mpg around town.... All in all pretty crap especially as it's driven easy
Drove a '00 Yaris on my daily commute where the Safrane does 25/26mpg and the computer in the Yaris showed 49.7 MPG for the trip!!!

Kernel32

2000 Volvo S40 1.9L Turbo , 25mpg is about average for me. I used to get more like 28mpg but now I do mainly city driving.

joolsveer

2003 Renault Mégane 1.6 auto 28mpg in town around 45mpg on a trip to Wexford

BrianD3

According to the trip computer, I get 44mpg average from a 2003 Renault Laguna 1.6 petrol. My driving is 90% open road, 10% urban. The tank holds 68 litres so that works out at around 660 miles per tank. The low fuel light comes on with approx 60 miles remaining and I usually fill up when it comes on. So that makes around 600 miles between fills.

BrianD3

comanche

99 Megane 1.4 16v

36 mpg urban
48 mpg openroad (eats petrol on the motorway though!)

alias no.9

Primera 2.0TD 55l tank and varys from 500 miles to about 575 miles per tank depending on driving so between 42mpg around town and 48 mpg for mixed driving.

gibo_ie

peugeot 306 1.9 Diesel (96)
Country get about 54-56mpg

city get about 45-50mpg

Great little runaround!!
New car (for me) 00 Renault Laguna 16, 16V ( will know at end of week what i get to a tank!!) guess it wont be as good

P.S. Peugeot is for sale!

AMurphy

'89, 2.5L-V6 Camry, 28.8ml/UKgal. (~27.5 in Summer, A/C in use). Typical speed 60~70mph Highway. 75% of the mileage. Just turned over 144K.

garhelen

04 Seat Tolado 1.9tdi 100bhp About 60mpg average

00 Renault Megane 1.4 Made 40mpg+ for the last 5 tanks

BabyEater

98 BMW 318i 34mpg mixed driving

Banjo013

2.0L Automatic

80 litre tank, about €70 to fill. Getting about 300 miles from that, mostly urban.

shagman

I've two vehicles driving at the mo..

1972 Reliant Scimitar GTE overdrive (3Ltr V6) being a gt it has a big tank about 60 litres I think. Does between 22-25mpg apparently, haven't checked. :rolleyes:

1979 Chevrolet G30 van (5.7Ltr V8) Helga my cross between a passion wagon and the A team van has an even bigger tank (75 litres) but needs it, she drinks petrol like Father Jack drinks whiskey. Does 12-15mpg :eek: apparently .....but.........it'll be converted to LPG soon.
One being a classic and the other being a campervan means I pay less for tax and insurance combined than if I drove a 1 litre micra or scarlet. I might buy a lot of petrol but at least I'm getting something for my money!

highdef

Banjo013 - That's terrible economy - What do you drive?

Myself, 1998 Ford Scorpio 2.3 auto

To keep with the general imperial flow of this thread, avg 22MPG. This is about half urban, 1/4 motorway. 1/4 suburban. ABout 32MPG on long motorway journeys. Under 20MPG around town.
70L tank will last maybe 300 miles
But it's worth it

Our man in Havana

96 Skoda Felicia estate

300 miles from 32 litres so around 42.5 mpg
Costs around 29-30 euro a fill @ 95c per litre

Gerry

My dad drives with a very light right foot, and has gotten 67mpg from a peugeot 406 2.0 hdi. Its a 70 litre tank, this works out at roughly 1100 miles.
Even with me driving, the car gets 900 miles to a tank. ( though the tank costs almost €70.

Our man in Havana

Gerry wrote:

My dad drives with a very light right foot, and has gotten 67mpg from a peugeot 406 2.0 hdi. Its a 70 litre tank, this works out at roughly 1100 miles.
Even with me driving, the car gets 900 miles to a tank. ( though the tank costs almost €70.

Thats very good, what sort of sppeds are you driving at? All open road driving?