MPG surprise

[SL63 Mark]

21 mpg with careful driving. It’s amazing what these cars can do.

 

[Capra]

My return journey was as good, 42mpg, with a total trip of 40mpg, happy with that seeing as I did a few right foot moments. Car was faultless and even gave me the full DPF Regen treatment. Such a nice place to be when on the motorway.

 

[Bubble]

Daily commute to work this morning showed this from a cold start, 50mph A road and then a mile @70 ish.....mph.

Can't complain about that. I didn't buy a 3.0 litre V6 for economy, but for the smooth engine and torque. The 9g box in these is great too .

 

[Frontstep]

Well just got 76 MPG on a 70mph 100 mile return trip but it was in (dare I mention it in polite company) a VW blue motion.

It regularly gets late 50's on shorter runs.

The car is my youths but the interesting point is when I look in the exhaust its as clean as the day they made it, my local tree hugger anti-car, anti-fracking, eco activists wood burning stove chimney is black and covered in soot as is his neighbours washing at times....

Nowt like a bit of hypocrisy.

 

[Mike350]

It’s ironic the Government persuaded us all to buy diesels a few years ago and now they're the pariahs of polluters, despite the fact that modern diesels use less fuel and have very efficient particulate filters on them. So we now find that CO2 levels are rising, and we should all drive electric cars. If we did then we wouldn’t be able to boil a kettle! I live in Cornwall where the public transport is one bus a week so a car with a decent range is vital to get to work etc.
Don’t think a V8 electric car will ever catch on!

 

[d215yq]

Modern cars are amazing on fuel, especially diesels.

Now I know nobody buys an SL350 for it’s fuel economy, but I’ve been amazed that on a long run on an uncongested M’way ( if that’s possible these days) at a steady 70ish mph mine returns about 31mpg, a figure that any 1.6 petrol would’ve averaged 20 years ago!

Not all the old ones are bad...No fancy computer to show you obviously but just finished a wonderful week gently touring around the Spanish countryside, 650 miles and 54mpg in the 300D. Brimmed it before I went off and still got a quarter left to commute this week. Seems to improve 10% in the summer (been 35 degrees) which I don't understand as on long journeys it would be hot for 99% of the time anyway and I have the windows down which they say is bad for aero.

Old petrols weren't that bad either. My first Rover 214 (1995) petrol got 50mpg regularly and mother's Yaris 1.0 (1999) gets the same (both on a run). I just think the figures were pesimistic then - the official figure of consumption for my 300D is 43mpg at a constant 60 whereas I would guess it could probably get 60mpg if I'm getting 55 tank to tank at varying speeds, occasional stopping, etc. I suppose as the consumption just appeared in the "specs" part of the manual and not for tax/sales they underestimated and didn't need to cheat the system/really care about it. There's some kind of mpg based rally where one category is "best mpg compared to claimed figures" and some 20+ year old car always wins that category

 

[JBell]

the SLK250 cdi seems to sell quite well from what I can tell, without the soundtrack.

Because they have no really good petrol options that are a similar price, the SLK 250CGi was £5k more than the Diesel!!!!

 

[clanny]

I’ve done alright from time to time.

 

[Capra]

I’ve done alright from time to time.

Good skills.

 

[Jimbo1959]

We've just been on our annual holi-bag, and when I consider the speeds I was achieving, I am very pleased with my E350 CDi Coupe's fuel return. The computer was occasionally showing as high as 44 mpg on the trip to our destination but levelled out at 40.3 mpg. When I did the brim to brim check, it was 35.7 mpg which, all things considered I was delighted with. Most of my cruising was done between 85 and 95 mph with fairly regular moments of pedal to the metal activity. (Divers boot on my right foot, lol), resulting in speeds of up to 130 mph. Can't complain at all.

 

[John Laidlaw]

Like SL55 Mark I’m lucky to see 21 but can’t complain!
One of my colleagues at work has a 530e which he’s just lent to our accountant who managed to wring 80mpg out of it the first 3 days he had it!

 

[Jimbo1959]

Like SL55 Mark I’m lucky to see 21 but can’t complain!
One of my colleagues at work has a 530e which he’s just lent to our accountant who managed to wring 80mpg out of it the first 3 days he had it!

I'm sorry but, I have been seduced by the dark side and cannot be the good lad I should.
I have moments of goody two shoes and have once seen 48 mpg on the computer but, the POWEEEER of the dark side (in best James Earl Brown voice, lol.), is awesome.
I think it's why I love diesels so much because, I CAN, have my cake and eat it. The torque, oh man the torque!!!!

Basically I just don't have the patience when all that power is just under my foot and I don't have to put up with all the guys on an economy drive or the old dotters.

In the venacular, GIT OOT MA WAY PAL! (English translation can be provided for anyone struggling, lol), and yes I know, 59 going on 17.

 

[B king]

I regularly can see high 50's on the computer but arithmetic says different, average around 40 ish ......less in winter.

 

[John Laidlaw]

I'm sorry but, I have been seduced by the dark side and cannot be the good lad I should.
I have moments of goody two shoes and have once seen 48 mpg on the computer but, the POWEEEER of the dark side (in best James Earl Brown voice, lol.), is awesome.
I think it's why I love diesels so much because, I CAN, have my cake and eat it. The torque, oh man the torque!!!!

Basically I just don't have the patience when all that power is just under my foot and I don't have to put up with all the guys on an economy drive or the old dotters.

In the venacular, GIT OOT MA WAY PAL! (English translation can be provided for anyone struggling, lol), and yes I know, 59 going on 17.

Perfect!
I am constantly amazed at the volume of tossers driving up the M53 in the morning doing 45mph to get optimal economy (not that I see them for long mind, unless I have the urge to down shift and boom the exhaust to wake them up )

 

[B king]

Agree John, if MPG is your thing , drive a VW Polo..........