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What vehicle(s) do you drive on a regular basis?

As a small follow-up from my earlier post, I finally managed to do a motorway only fuel check. It was a petrol station start and finish journey of 250miles.

The journey unfortunately featured quite a few delays there and back, with a lot of slow crawl traffic at times.

The trip computer came out with 67mpg as a figure, but interestingly it was being more conservative than the actual fuel use reality.

The measured fuel use calculation came out as being 70mpg! That was also with a car full of people and luggage.

It also means I may have hit nearly 80mpg in the past as the highest trip number I have ever got was 76mpg.
 
Amazed at some of the MPG I still get with HDi Peugeot Citroen engine. When I drove to Czech Republic 4 years ago, I filled up in Bristol and was half way across Germany before I needed to trouble my fuel filler cap.

Also confirms why I would never touch EVs. Imagine being in a foreign country at night, fixated by the range meter, desperately seeking a working charger and hanging around in sub zero temps for 90 mins while the stupid thing slowly sucked up some volts. No thanks!
 
ReganAndCarter said:
Amazed at some of the MPG I still get with HDi Peugeot Citroen engine. When I drove to Czech Republic 4 years ago, I filled up in Bristol and was half way across Germany before I needed to trouble my fuel filler cap.

Also confirms why I would never touch EVs. Imagine being in a foreign country at night, fixated by the range meter, desperately seeking a working charger and hanging around in sub zero temps for 90 mins while the stupid thing slowly sucked up some volts. No thanks!
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All this 70 and 80 MPG stuff does sound jolly impressive. I'm almost tempted to give up my 250-300 MPG, but I couldn't really live without the three-and-a-half hundred horsepower, now I'm used to it... ;)
 
Avocet said:
All this 70 and 80 MPG stuff does sound jolly impressive. I'm almost tempted to give up my 250-300 MPG, but I couldn't really live without the three-and-a-half hundred horsepower, now I'm used to it... ;)
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Yeah, but it's a bit extreme having to ask your passengers to push it for miles, just to get your mpg figures :)
 
norseman said:
Daily > 27 year old BMW saloon, probably the best car I've ever owned.
Occasional > 38 year old Range Rover classic V8.

As you can see I'm not a fan of modern junk & I'll not be drawn into endless discussions about saving the f..... planet.
I've answered the original post .. I'm done (y)
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But what about the Planet?
 
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