I am truly amazed..!

Done about 1k in my sport now and have averaged 46mpg on 95 RON fuel :)

what am i doing wrong?


Although i drove the last few hundred miles like i stole it on the backroads and it fell to 34.

6.1l/100 is not too shabby at all! I'm happy when I see that kind of numbers... in the summer, maybe, with light loads and low speeds.

@nuttinnew: yes, they will be :) BTW: you have a PM on the other forum.

Bret
 
I am even more amazed. My little car is now up to 75 mile per gallon and I think could do even more. ;) Sure is a good way of offsetting the rising cost of fuel.
 
What have you changed (either to the car or to your driving behaviour, or both!) since your last post saying you were getting 69mpg? I'm managing an average of 63 pretty reliably at the moment on my 155/65/15 sticky winter rubber, but I imagine it'll drop back to 60 when I put my 16s back on (which I'm thinking of doing in the next few weeks as it's getting so warm down here now - 13 degrees yesterday, not the best temperatures for winter tyres.)
 
I have changed from 17 inch wheels down to 16's and have kept the revs below 2500 and haven't gone beyond 70 mph but mostly kept to 60. Also haven't braked or accelerated hard and the results are a significant increase in MPG.:)

Having owned my car since sept '06 - it still makes me smile. I love it.

Phil

What have you changed (either to the car or to your driving behaviour, or both!) since your last post saying you were getting 69mpg? I'm managing an average of 63 pretty reliably at the moment on my 155/65/15 sticky winter rubber, but I imagine it'll drop back to 60 when I put my 16s back on (which I'm thinking of doing in the next few weeks as it's getting so warm down here now - 13 degrees yesterday, not the best temperatures for winter tyres.)
 
Thanks - I just wondered what you'd done differently since posting 69mpg - I thought you'd already dropped to 16s to achieve the 69?
 
Yes I had already dropped to 16's but I'm racking up the mileage as my commute is a 200 mile round trip (all motorway) :eek: not every day thank goodness. So as the miles are piling on I'm seeing the MPG get better each day.
 
I'm doing about 400miles a week commuting myself!
I think what you show is the massive impact on economy that driving behaviour has if you've managed to achieve that through better driving techniques. Are you running the longer 5th?
 
No, my gearing is bog-standard. The only changes made are a Stealth re-map, a while ago now, and the more recent change to 16 inch wheels.

My speedo reading is now up to 127,000 miles so perhaps it's now only just 'run in'.
 
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