Cannot be right!!!!!!!

[94mattda]

Hello, i bought another car yesterday.... a 2.5 Diesel Range Rover P38 but dont worry i am keeping the Mercedes....Will never get rid of her. Anyway i drove the Rangie back from Shropshire to Plymouth. Filled up with 200 miles left to go acoirding to sat nav. Got to Plymouth and filled up again costing £13.05 @ 99.9 p per litre. My calculations make it 67mpg....have i done something wrong. ????? Should it not be around 30mpg




Mercedes is going in for a little work and a service so will be good as new agian soon......

 

[Ian_Mac]

We'll all be buying Range Rovers if this gets out!!

 

[st4]

Yes, you've probably coverted litres to gallons wrong. 30mpg would be closer, but suspect 25mpg (which is approx £20/100miles)

 

[Ian_Mac]

The maths is about right isn't it??

 

[st4]

Sometimes when you refuell you may not always be able to put a full payload in-you may have left shropshire with a completely full tank and then refilled thinking you brimmed it when in actual fact you didn't. This would give the effect of a superhigh MPG like you realised.

Read from post 28 onwards and post 31

 

[whitenemesis]

If that were true I think we would have heard about it before now!

 

[Ian_Mac]

If I could get that from a Range Rover Sport I'd be camped on the dealers forecourt right now!

 

[kth286]

some vehicles have two tanks and fillers don't they ?

 

[94mattda]

lol..... all very strange. Maybe it runs on air... Anyway i am going to fill it up again from Cardiff this weekend and then see how much it uses back to Plymouth. The coupe does that on about a third of a tank.

I think my maths was ok. I converted the litres into gallons and then divided the mileage by the gallons and it came out at 67mpg.
All i can think then is that maybe the tank as was suggested did not totally fill up. Be interesting to see this weekend.

 

[CE230]

This might help

 

[lynall]

Mate had one of these and drove like an old woman and just got 30mpg on a run, his was a manual, autos much worse barely better than 20mpg

Start saving for the air bags and the starting problems



Lynall

 

[davidpavey]

Sorry mate, but not a hope in hell!! I`ve had 3 of these and never got any better than 23mpg Still a hell of a lot better than the two 4.6`s I had, averaged 12mpg

 

[WLeg]

A long time ago, I had a P38 with the Overfinch 5.8 V8 in it. On a drive to Wales I avaraged 4.5 MPG

 

[94mattda]

Mate had one of these and drove like an old woman and just got 30mpg on a run, his was a manual, autos much worse barely better than 20mpg

Start saving for the air bags and the starting problems



Lynall

Thanks....lol....had all new suspension air bags......new clutch and gearbox, head doneso hopefully will be trouble free. ....BUT we will see.

 

[nickcc101]

If it's the same engine as the Discovery, 2.5 turbo with manual box, then the max i was able to get was 25 mpg.

 

[94mattda]

Sorry mate, but not a hope in hell!! I`ve had 3 of these and never got any better than 23mpg Still a hell of a lot better than the two 4.6`s I had, averaged 12mpg

Well i agree.......i must say i was expecting to have to fill it and pay alot more once home....... shall watch this space. lol.........

 

[verytalldave]

A friend of mine drove from Essex to north Scotland a few years ago in his auto petrol engined Vogue. He was known for having a heavy right foot and he said that the car did " a bit less than 10mpg" for the round trip.
We never did find out what the exact figure was.

 

[94mattda]

Very strange,..... i dont really believe it myself. It has a 2.5 BMW TD engine. Going to have to try and do a few more runs in it to get an average and see what figures i get........

 

[jerrytlr]

If it's the same engine as the Discovery, 2.5 turbo with manual box, then the max i was able to get was 25 mpg.

Range Rover has the BMW straight six I think - nowhere near as economical as the direct injection Land Rover unit - but a lot more refined I had this in a manual BMW325 many years ago, would average around 36mpg so in an auto Range Rover it has to be well under 30mpg.... I would have thought 25mpg would be doing pretty well.

Lovely engine though

Cheers

Jerry

 

[gina2201]

Nice car, what mug drove you all the way there then