Impressive MPG???

[nurrish]

Check out these figures from my Car Computer readout...

 

This is after putting in £50 of fuel....

 

 

 

This included a round trip to chester, some pottering around over the weekend and my daily comute to work

[nixy]

so what am I doing wrong then?

[Digsy]

Mine's on 10.0 mpg...

[mbs]

Last week on trip to Norfolk averaged 26.8mpg but so many cameras on the A15 never got above 60mph

[Stez]

Stop driving like a girl and use your Zed as it was meant to be used. Single figure mpg

[M13KYF]

freewheeler!!!

[Rob_Quads]

I can get that sort of figure if i have been doing some motorway driving fairly easily. It will range between 32-34 on the motorway

[Sarnie]

freewheeler!!!

 

Someones been dipping the clutch

[mec]

Spotted the schoolboy error and sorted it.... must have been the focus on the camera

 

[Digsy]

Spotted the schoolboy error and sorted it.... must have been the focus on the camera

 

[Stez]

Now that's either real quick driving or those pikey petrol thieves has been out your way!

[Daaave]

I worked out recently that on my current mileage, for every 1 mpg that I can increase my annual average by it saves me about £100.

 

So I've been teaching myself to drive economically on the motorway/dual carriageway to work. They're boring roads and full of speed cameras so doing 65 isn't really that much of a difference.

 

I'm now on a 33 mpg average

[Ekona]

33mpg? Where can I get one of those diesel Zeds?

[p1tse]

what are these showing, above the line - average mpg and below, distance covered?

[Sarnie]

First one is journey time/miles covered, second one is mpg/average speed

 

[GlenMH]

I had to fit the space saver spare in France and then drive 2 hours to Boulogne to get a new front tyre.

 

2 hours on the autoroute and down to the ferry at an average of 48 mph gave 34.7 mpg in a roadster.

 

By god it was dull!

 

Glen

[max]

Set my computer to zero before setting of to Scotland, miles covered 1150, average miles per gallon 23, average speed 49 and it only took five hours to get home which was around 360 miles.

max.

[martinmac]

Quite a nice suprise for me too Mark, saturdays figures were way better than expected.

[andyvvc]

I can squeeze 40 mpg from mine sitting at just under 60leptons in 6th with Cruise on.

 

At 80mph (continent of course!) it will average 32mpg+ (again in 6th with cruise on)

 

These are figures gleaned from resetting the trip MPG clock, then cruising for at least 10 miles so the MPG levels out.

 

 

And yes - aggresive urban or agressive B road driving = 15MPG or less

[Daaave]

33mpg? Where can I get one of those diesel Zeds?

 

Well take it with a pinch of salt, that's what's shown on the display. I need to check it between fills.

 

It should be a good comparator though, I've gone up about 5mpg with more restrained driving.

[smartmove]

What petrol you putting in it?

[martinmac]

97 Ron gets me 33mpg over a 350 mile run on motorways if that helps bud.

[Ebized]

How many buy a ZED for fuel economy reasons?

 

The number of threads that continue to pop up on the subject amaze me - I think of nothing more tedious than driving it with a pussy foot . When I turn the key on the ZED it is to enjoy what it does best .

 

When I want fuel econmy I get in the wife's Jazz.

[Randomfry]

Lol well said, interesting to see whats possible though. I bought my car about a month ago and the guy was averaging 26mpg. I'm getting 19 but i bet im having more fun

[Iddingtons]

In my experience, 26 mpg was me behaving and 22 mpg was me ocassionally finding somewhere to play, with 17 mpg being when I was having lots of fun

 

Id.