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General 1.2 What MPG are we getting?
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General 1.2 What MPG are we getting?
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I'm coming to the conclusion that book MPG should be possible on a reasonable round-trip, say 25 miles, but it does take an acceptance that you need to drive SLOW. I'm finding a few percent over book is possible this time of year.
For example, 76mpg in the daily commute in my 'dismal' 500 (as Maxi calls it!), book is 67mpg of course. In winter it's considerably lower, and the DPF regens hurt it too. In my other car, a 1.2tsi (petrol) Skoda, with 1,500 miles on the clock I'm getting ~53mpg on the daily commute (book is 49mpg).
My only reservation is that the figures might be skewed for those models with start/stop, since that artificially (IMO) inflates the quoted MPG.
For example, 76mpg in the daily commute in my 'dismal' 500 (as Maxi calls it!), book is 67mpg of course. In winter it's considerably lower, and the DPF regens hurt it too. In my other car, a 1.2tsi (petrol) Skoda, with 1,500 miles on the clock I'm getting ~53mpg on the daily commute (book is 49mpg).
My only reservation is that the figures might be skewed for those models with start/stop, since that artificially (IMO) inflates the quoted MPG.
I think the longer the distance the better you're going to do
I was working about 20 miles from home from March 2010 till the end of March this year and my commute included a little urban driving (maybe 15%) but was mostly A roads at 55-60mph and the best I could manage on that run was 47mpg on summer tyres, on my 40 mile commute for the last three weeks I was easily getting 53-55mpg without trying and trying got me 59.2mpg. Tomorrow I start a job with only a 5 mile commute....... get ready to see some tumbling mpg figures! In winter my car is barely warmed up by the time it gets to that point in the road
