50.4 MPG

(03-10-2012 01:05pm)THEMACS Wrote:  Sounds about right, once you go much over 70mph it crucifies the MPG!!

I would expect so, aerodynamics of a house brick, increased drag from 4WD.

Our Kuga is the same, about 40 mpg at 75 and about 30 mpg at 85.

That's why the official figures are so far out - the tests bear no resemblance to real driving conditions.

Cheers

Mark H

(02-10-2012 09:24pm)XFullFatTim Wrote:  How long is the journey? Less than 15 miles one way and the engine isn't warming up enough to be efficient - a petrol engine is much quicker to warm up and also more efficient in stop start motoring, then you may also find that your DPF is regenerating more frequently if you are in commuter driving............................ and diesels don't like tear-away from the lights type driving with lots of gear changes, they love steady RPM cruising for hours and hours, so are not the ideal engine for a commuter car

(03-10-2012 01:20am)fam1x Wrote:  Oh yes very serious, I think I need to get LR to have a look at it

My work is 17 miles away. I have a steady but busy traffic out of London. I noticed today, that it took around 3 miles for the optimum temperature to be reached as it shows on the on board display. Surely this is enough to warm the engine up and get me more than 31 mpg...
If I had gone for the Si4 auto, the exaggerated Factory urban mpg is 23.7 ( I take this to be my maximum achievable mpg), so in actual fact, I will get less mpg for my daily commute....
Not a win win situation either way....

From a cold start at work at the end of each day, I take a 6 mile drive to my local supermarket (4 miles at a steady 50mph on A road, 2 miles town driving at 30mph stop-start: park up, shop for 15 minutes and then drive 1.5 miles home, 30mph town driving, stop-start.

By the time I am at my front door I'm showing typically 40-41 mpg on the display with my TD4 manual (auto trip, not trip A or B).

No tricks - just driving for economy. Changing up when indicated (about 1800-1900 RPM), hanging on to high gears as long as I have the torque to pull and not labouring the engine: and letting stop-start get on with it if necessary.

Works for me.

TD4 , 10500 miles and I have been getting 36-38 mpg . This is calculated manually by me .

Usually driving few hundred miles each week , motorway / A roads and small amount of town driving.
Did a little bit last week of , ahem , cough , above 70 mph ( bat out of hell impression ) and mpg was 35. Next journey deliberately kept it under 70 ( oh so boring......) and came back as 40 mpg for first time .
As I said , this is manual calculation and I fully fill the tank each time. I find the trip computer is about 0.50 or 1.0 over stated. I have seen the mpg showing as 41.3 on the trip display !
So maybe its true when Dealer said it improves after 10,000 miles .

What confuses me mind is the "miles until empty " figure after a fill up. Its anywhere between 442 and 462. I now fill up until first auto stop of the nozzle , dont bother squeezing in more. Its weird how different pumps and fuel stations have cut off at seemingly different points. Presumably its the fill rate and pressure that is different?

TD4 3000miles - 32.5MPG but i drive it like ive stolen it......

Derby to Heathrow 40.2mpg / Heathrow to Derby 44.6mpg - Pretty impressed!

At long last I managed to crack 45mpg on my usual run to town, it was heavy going though stuck for 14 miles in a convoy behind a slow moving driver along with about 50 other cars........ Ave speed 45mph

Please excuse the photo quality - iPhone4 grabbed while stopped at traffic lights!

Well, not wanting to start an MPG war...

But just got my best MPG ever... 50.9.

Watford to Coventry and back, M1, nice weather, no hurry, so my Evie just sat and played nicely at 60MPH with Eddie Stobart and a few of his mates.

Yeh yeh, but yours is the super economy version TD4, mine is the dieselholic SD4

I'll have to check it really - it might be the Hybrid version... something can't be right!