(14-03-2012 11:03am)XFullFatTim Wrote:  If you car is privately run and you are doing "normal" private milage around 8-10,000 miles year then you won't need to stop at filling stations too frequently - the car can manage 450 miles on a full tank of diesel. If you are commuting then yes stop start driving is a killer, but is it with any car - even Hybrids are having problems matching the official figures. I read recently that in real life a Prius is not likely to get 60mpg let alone the 85 that is claimed and the Honda CRZ is even worse. I had a test drive in a CRZ and never saw more than 40mpg in a whole weekend of normal driving and the claimed figure was 56mpg on the combined cycle.

(14-03-2012 10:43am)taggie149 Wrote:  I have to say, all these negative posts regards mpg are putting serious doubts in my mind whether to buy one or not, i'm now starting to wonder once the honeymoon period is over will i start getting peeved at visiting the fuel pumps..
Times are tough enough without putting further financial pressure on our incomes, heart says yes, buy my mind now having doubts..
How many of you guys (& be honest), now the initial excitement of owning the car, albeit for maybe only a short period, are perhaps wishing you'd looked at something else?

(08-03-2012 02:09pm)jitenc Wrote:  No chance. I am on summer tyres at the mo. Doing 35 miles to and fro work on dual carriage way and A roads with traffic. I do put the car on sports mode and use dynamic mode on some sharp bends.... i think no one has topped up to 28.6 mpg yet, or have they??
I bet, after a while everyone will stop moarning and groanning and just accept the car as it is or PX it for a Prius.

(14-03-2012 11:48am)Dimitrios Wrote:  I don’t think you can purchase a car like the RRE based solely on the real world mpg let alone what the manufacture claims. Even if real world mpg is a lot less I’m guessing most people would still have purchased even with hindsight. Then again I’m not in the honeymoon stage yet, we're not even dating

(14-03-2012 02:06pm)leveller Wrote:  I've discovered that Si4 owners should use Command Shift paddles as much as possible. We can move off from stationary at junctions, roundabouts or whatever, at whatever acceleration you want to, but change up at every 2,000 revs. You'll find very quickly you'll be in 5th/6th gear cruising at 1,600 to 2,000 revs. The car gives me the impression that she's programmed to react to acceleration from stationary, as though we are trying to test her 0-60 times rather than just pulling away briskly, therefore she's giving us completely unneccessary high revs.

Also, unless you tell her to change up to higher gears, she'll cruise at a lower gear at high revs.

And on motorways don't drive over 70MPH, keep her in 6th and make sure the revs don't go over 2,000.