Fuel Consumption?

[Guest Andrea]

managed to make it to 100miles before the first bar went down, hope it improves from there

[techbod]

when it beeps your going into the reserve so there should be approx 1.5 gallons in there and not advisable to run it out of fuel because you drag all the crap out of the tank and block the fuel filter after all its fossil fuel and you also get a little water in there due to condensation which is quite normal but your looking for problems running it low like that

[norm7171551]

I regularly get 60 mpg from my C6 2.7HDi*

 

*Coasting downhill with the engine off.

[Guest big stuart]

about the fuel consumption, my c1 is just over 1 month old, when i filled it up last week, before the cost of fuel came down....(bugger) I put in £30

£30 fuel @ £1.06 litre = 28.30 litres roughly divided by 5 to make gallons =5.6 gallons

I got 347 miles out of that, so 347 divided by 5.6 is approx 61.9 mpg.

not exact i know but I think this is brilliant!

I drive 22 miles to work early in the morning so no traffic but lights and heater on, on the way home I hit all the rush hour traffic and sit in traffic for about 15 to 25 mintutes more than on the way to work.

All that said i don't drive slow usually 60 on the duel carrage way, contry lanes 50 and of course legal limits around town.

My xj40 on the other hand does a respectable 24.4 on the same trip........... must use the c1 more!!!

I have just gone over the 1000 mile mark with my c1 and have found it great for a small motor.

[Bugs]

i think those sorta folk dont even think twice about fuel economy!!! the high mpg was a definite draw when i was chosing this car, not to mention the miniscule tax :(

 

I bought my C3 with the fuel economy in mind. I get 65-70mpg with my 1.4diesel. That is mainly motorway driving at 65-70mph. It's also £35 per year road tax so cannot complain. Just wish they would bring down the price of diesel to match petrol prices!

[StormB]

about the fuel consumption, my c1 is just over 1 month old, when i filled it up last week, before the cost of fuel came down....(bugger) I put in £30

£30 fuel @ £1.06 litre = 28.30 litres roughly divided by 5 to make gallons =5.6 gallons

I got 347 miles out of that, so 347 divided by 5.6 is approx 61.9 mpg.

not exact i know but I think this is brilliant!

 

Don't want to sound pedantic, but there's 4.55 litres in an imperial gallon. This makes your mpg 55.8 mpg. Still good though considering the amount of traffic you sit in!

 

Will

[Guest Andrea]

My first bar doesn't go down until I hit 130 miles on a full tank, the second is at 230 miles then the third at 300 or just over miles. My record is 410 miles with the two bars left, costing £33.00 to fill. I'm very light footy and driving out in the countryside to work with not a single traffic light in sight, lovely. Not bad for someone living just 50 miles from London. It worked out at 61MPG :-)

 

am shocked, but my car is now showing roughly the same as what you have quoted here. in just over the past week-i filled up saturday 11th, have only 'lost' 2 bars on the gauge at 230 miles. i would say its on a half tank about now so maybe another 200 to go? maybe more! told someone in work about it, very jealous indeed. so happy its now running well (all being well), over the moon! inspite of the window problem.....yay!

[TurboSlag]

I averaged 63.3 on my latest fill up. Prior to that, managed 77.1 on a disciplined 60mph 120 mile motorway run, and that's with phat 195 tyres (inflated to 34psi).

[750Nig]

Finally got round to finding out what our mpg is.

53 mpg, she drives 2 miles to work, I drive 10 miles - on alternate days. Occasional longer trips at weekends.

[fathead82]

I'm staggered by some of the numbers being quoted here. My first bar always drops around the 70 mile mark, and each bar after that drops around 65-75 miles later. I always fill up as soon as the last bar is reached & you get that beep, so I've no idea how long the car will last once that beep occurs. I average around 320-350 per fill up, with a fill being between £26-30 at current fuel costs. I make that around the 55mpg mark for consumption, which I felt was brilliant. The major downside to my journeys (50 mile round trip each day) is the amount of traffic & the large amount of hills.

 

Having replaced a Vectra 2.0 which was doing around 170 miles for a £35 top up, I'm well chuffed with double the mileage.

[CE08LDB]

The C2s ain't bad on Petrol either. My C2 never drops below 40mpg and on a long run it has done 55mpg and I haven't hit 3,000 miles yet.

 

Its been just as good as my last C3.

[downsman]

There is another way to look at the consumption of these cars.

 

I thrashed my car the other day when I needed to get to my parents home and back in as short a time as possible.

 

It's all on country roads, and I used high revs and a heavy foot all the way there and back. When I worked out the consumption it was still 43mpg.

 

OK it's 15mpg worse than I usually get, but it's still 10mpg better than my last car on a long motorway run :blink: