What MPG are you getting from your vehicle?

A lot of people in this thread seem to be beating their vehicles official fuel economy figures, by some margin. Which is interesting.

On a long run I'm normally at the speed limit which gives worse fuel economy than sitting at 80-100kph.

But on a recent trip mixed motorway and and lots of small country roads I was getting about 8L/100km in a 1.6 TDI MPV with a roof box and five people and luggage which matches my official figures. In our previous petrol version of the same MPV it's was always around 11L/100km. We rarely do long trips and never with only one person in that car.

Eco mode does sweet **** all. Tested it over a number of tanks, you might get +15km range on a 1000km tank.

mines not BS, you can come over and look at my trip.

I get roughly the same

6.8L/100km

Just serviced and good tyres

These avensis aren't great at 42 mpg

I do mostly city driving like a lot of taxis would - surprised so many taxi drivers use them at that mpg

Mines a 2010, i find since they went with the1.6 diesel option and also joined with bmw the issues got worse tbh

You can save or waste litres of fuel by the way you drive. Excessive acceleration and too many unnecessary gear changes are two ways to waste those litres. I did a one day course some years ago on economy driving in a 1.9 diesel van with 6 speed gearbox, 1st to 2nd to 4th to 6th. 1st to 3 rs to 5th to 6th. Starting off downhill 1st to 3rd to 6th. Coming down through the gears, 6th to 4th, 6th to 3rd, even 6th to 2nd. Going through roundabouts in 4th. All this driving safely and within all speed limits in both urban and rural areas taking traffic, road and weather conditions into account. The results were amazing saving many litres of diesel. As I posted earlier I have a Ford Focus 1.6 diesel, it has 6 forward gears and I drive it all the time even on the very bad roads where I live the way I was instructed on that course. The same applies to 5 speed gearbox vehicles. I don't know about automatics as I have never owned or driven one.

I love driving, enjoy my car and don't find it a bit boring driving that way. I never think about manufacturers claims or try to achieve them when I'm driving, I simply drive the way I was instructed on that course, which incidentally I was doing to a lesser extent with the same van for about six months before that course as it was owned by the company I was working with and they organised the course for their drivers. That was back in 2007.

The misses gets about 12.21 litres/100kmh out of her 1.6 VW Touran. Shes getting a electric car now as she’s fed up of garages

she’ll go from €56 per 300km to €3

Thats actually amazing for the size of the car and small engine!

27 mpg. Big diesel and very short commute.

Is that according to the display or are you actually measuring from fill to fill? What km's are you getting from a full tank? Anyone I know who had one of them found them very gutless and thirsty.

I wonder would that miller's do anything for a petrol car?

I'm going to try it at half concentration this fill and see is there any difference in consumption. As I said earlier the main difference I felt was less regens and the car is certainly a lot smoother, now it could be just down to the engine freeing up as it's only on 45,000 km but it isn't doing any harm using it either.

What’s the science in it doing less regens I wonder, I’m sure the engine is still emitting particulates.

on a related note, I did 380km on Sunday, and today it decides to do a regen! I’ll never interrupt it doing one, so had to go on an impromptu spin.

I had it in getting some slight engine tweaks recently, guy checked on his computer and the DPF is as sound as a pound, which is nice after 210k

Is it the DPF cleaner additive you’re using or something else?

How so? Diesels have cats aswell

Driving an Audi A6 2 litre diesel and I often drive with a heavy foot, I'm getting in the region of 5l/100km which is about 47mpg. This is by far the most economical car I've every driven.