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The journey home from the dealer (99 miles) mainly motorway, light foot and 19 miles of 50mph roadworks the car did I think 54 mpg.
Since then I have done a total of 430 miles but filled up a couple of time as I passed two cheap Shell stations.
I reset all the trip computers 44 miles ago and from memory the mpg figure had dropped to 34mpg. This included mainly 20 mile open road journeys in light traffic plus maybe 3 x 1 mile trips to the shops and back plus 1 x 3 mile town centre trip.
Since the reset the car is doing 38.6mpg at an average speed of 26 mph. I live at the bottom of a hill so the initial figure on a cold engine is around 8mpg until I get to the top. The longer the journey the better the figures. On a trip of maybe a mile I will be lucky to hit 20mpg so distance is critical to good figures.
Tank is 66 litres with 7 in reserve. 59 litres = 13 gallons x 38.6mpg = 501 miles usable range.
I will be happy if the car averages 40mpg so with the engine still tight I hope to get there. If I had bought a diesel I think it would have taken me years to break even.
Well I do not own one, but we all know just how misleading the mpg figures are from the manufacturers ,they claim over 50mpg doing motorway at I suppose 60mph.....
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