You Wont Believe this. Is this the Best Fuel Economy?

After all the moaning that has gone on here including myself about the poor MPG, now here is an eye opener.

I decided to take a short break but instead of flying I decided to take the car to Brighton. Now I live in Lisburn, Northern Ireland and there are several routes I could have taken but chose Lisburn to Rosslare (ROI), Ferry to Fishguard (Wales), Fishguard to Brighton. Distance by road would be approximately 550 miles.

Tank of Diesel cost me around £73 and we set off at a steady speed of 52MPH As you can see in the 1st photo.
Average fuel started to increase as in 2nd photo and again in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th photo.

Four to Five hours later we arrived at the port of Rosslare, Ferry trip took a little over 3 hours. Arrived at Fishguard early doors and then continued on through the early hours to Brighton. We arrived In Brighton around 10am. The Average fuel showed 56.4mpg as in photo 7, photo 8 shows Distance to Empty 116 Miles. Photo 9 shows Trip of 558.2 Miles had been driven on one tank of fuel. The following day (still not refueled) we drove to Thorpe Park and Chertsey before returning back to Brighton. On Fuel up photos 10 shows 42 miles to empty, Photo 11 shows Total trip of 632.4 Miles travelled on one tank of fuel. Photo 12 shows average speed of 43MPH, photo 13 shows Average Fuel 54.9MPG.

Now I personally feel it is time to close the argument on this topic. I have forwarded this information onto LR and they can make what they want of it but it goes to show that this Car is capable of great mileage provided you don't thrash the arse out of it and drive sensibly.

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SD4 Pure with 13k on the clock.

And I must be on the record for the lowest MPG! Still on 29.3 MPG. I have hardly seen the 32MPG milestone mark for me, even after rubbing the genie lamp.... Photo of my speedometer will follow shortly.

Since taking ownership in march i am averaging 21MPG (petrol engine) but i dont drive at 52mph, each to there own but i enjoy putting it into sport mode and driving those long windy B roads.

If you keep the speed below 56mph Evoque is capable of very good consumptions, you just have to get stuck in a 50 mph average cam monitored section of motorway to see the trip average start to improve, but as soon as you start using high revs or going over 60-65 then any gains are pretty quickly wiped out. I am pleased with the consumption with the 9 speeder. Problem is we don't all want to travel everywhere at 56mph or less!

Famix you need to let the train take the strain driving in London, even the 9 speeder with stop start takes a hit as soon as you get into commuting/ school run traffic

Does this mean that the moaning about MPG will now stop?

I doubt it! It would interesting to see what an SD4 with the Si4's adaptive drive would achieve though.

My 2013 with the 2.0T gets a flat 28MPG highway doing 72mph cruise for 50 miles non-stop. That's US MPG so UK is 33.6MPG.

It would certainly get a lot higher if I dropped the speed down to 55s-65s, but actually there is no difference in MPGs going from 65-72.. Would assume if you are going THAT slowly, yea you can get 55MPG especially with a diesel.

(06-08-2014 10:32pm)Jinzen Wrote:  My 2013 with the 2.0T gets a flat 28MPG highway doing 72mph cruise for 50 miles non-stop. That's US MPG so UK is 33.6MPG.

It would certainly get a lot higher if I dropped the speed down to 55s-65s, but actually there is no difference in MPGs going from 65-72.. Would assume if you are going THAT slowly, yea you can get 55MPG especially with a diesel.

I went that slowly for two reasons, 1 - I wasn't in a hurry to get to my destination and 2 - I just had to prove this car was capable of such mileage especially after all the whinging we have done about the Fuel Economy

Just goes to show if you have a heavy lead foot your going to be filling up more often and at £75 a fill up, Sod that!

(07-08-2014 10:47am)IvorRedOne Wrote:  I went that slowly for two reasons, 1 - I wasn't in a hurry to get to my destination and 2 - I just had to prove this car was capable of such mileage especially after all the whinging we have done about the Fuel Economy

Just goes to show if you have a heavy lead foot your going to be filling up more often and at £75 a fill up, Sod that!

Costs about $60 USD here to fill up... Can't believe it costs you guys twice as much over there for gas (petrol?)

Where I am at the moment it cost more per litre to buy drinking water than it dies to buy gasoline! And there are no refineries here so they have to export the crude and import it as gasoline - nobody drives a diesel fuelled car out here in Dubai!