What Mileage do you get? What car?

[Budza]

1) What car do you drive? Engine size?
2) What is your average speed? [Not too sure how to work this out ] 3) How would you describe your driving style?
4) What is your fuel economy?

Perhaps the mods could add a poll with suitable numbers a bit later?

To start:

1) '96 Opel Astra 1.6i
2) Lots of highway puts it at about 100. Robots etc probably means it's less.
3) Aggressive, and fast though I take my time getting up to speed. (It's not as much about how fast you drive as it is about how fast you get to that speed). 4) Average is below 7.5l/100km, ranges from 6.8-8 or so depending on where I'm driving.

 

[LiamRG]

2008 - Polo 1.6
Ave speed is about 50km per hour (Week days). Traffic is a nightmare on the M1 North and South.

I have 45L petrol tank and can squeeze out a maximum of 550km just going to work.
On a trip to Durban from Jhb, driving at an ave of 120km per hour I can get a maximum of 750km from the tank.

 

[xrapidx]

There's a recent thread on this somewhere.

 

[LCBXX]

You should be able to squeeze 54L into that tank if you use the vent lever.

2008 - Polo 1.6
Ave speed is about 50km per hour (Week days). Traffic is a nightmare on the M1 North and South.

I have 45L petrol tank and can squeeze out a maximum of 550km just going to work.
On a trip to Durban from Jhb, driving at an ave of 120km per hour I can get a maximum of 750km from the tank.

 

[supersunbird]

Car: 2005 Ford Ikon 1.3i
Average speed: Don't know
Driving Style: very rustig in town, 130 - 140 on highway
Fuel Economy: 6.6l/100km or 15km/liter

 

[apogeeza]

car: Polo 1.9 Tdi
speed: >= 100km/h
style: average for Jhb (bluddy woes for other parts of SA.)
Economy: +- 950Km per tank which is 55 liters (17km/L)

On holiday last year, I extracted 1320km out of one tank with a fully laden car with aircon on for a large portion of the dessert trip.

 

[Budza]

Hmm. If I continue to commute such distances, a diesel sounds like a good option for my next car.

That is ~100 000km away though

 

[SirFooK'nG]

Car: Sentra 160si (1998)
Speed: All Town about 50km/h
Consumption: (foot always flat - robot to robot) 8.4km/l (revs neva under 3000rpm)

 

[StellenboschStudent]

1) Golf 5, 1.6
2) Always at the speed limit
3) Relaxed
4) 7.5l/100km or 13.33km/l

 

[Claymore]

1) 2 litre Ford Mondeo
2) Average speed: 26kph.
3) Driving style: Maybe not quite "style", but I'm mostly in stop-sart rush-hour traffic, or urban traffic.
4) Consumption varies, around 7.5-8.5 l/100km on the open road, 10.5 l/100km with a mix of driving, and 12.5 l/100km in pure urban traffic.

 

[Meteor]

1) 2.5 turbo
2) Average spd 75
3) Relaxed
4) 10-11l/100km

 

[orin76]

1) Honda Civic 5-door 1.8 iVtec
2.)Average speed between 40 and 110km/h
3.)40% stop start traffic & 60% highway
4.)Was 6.9l/100km, but now 6.4l/100km since roadwork speed restrictions

 

[Naks]

1. Land Rover Discovery II Td5 GS Auto
2. Avg speed: speed limit
3. Relaxed.
4. 10-12l/100km - 65% town:35% open road

 

[Slootvreter]

1) BMW E46 323i -2.5 inline 6
2) Onboard computer says 44...but I do mostly town driving, between 60-80
3) Relaxed
4) 9.9l/100km, open road I get 13-14l/100km.

 

[Rouxenator]

1) Opel Astra G 1.6 16v
2) A little above the speed limit - 180 on the open roads.
3) Me : very aggressive, My wife : moderate ~ relaxed
4) Me : 9.6l/100km, My wife : 7.7l/100km

I never rev beyond 3000rpm until the temperature is 80+

 

[xrapidx]

1) Honda S2000
2) +- 10-20km above speed limit, sometimes briefly about 250-260km/h, where its safe, and I can see at least no cars for km's (my life, don't lecture)
3) Extremely aggressive (6500-9500rpm)
4) 7.7km/l

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1) Toyota Hilux 2700i Double Cab 4x2
2) +- 10-20km above speed limit.
3) Calmly.
4) 6.1km/l

 

[viceroy]

1) Audi A3 3.2 V6
2) Average is about 45km/h with all the stop start I do in the mornings and evenings.
3) Moderate to agressive
4) about 7.5km/l or 13.3l/100km on average (450km from a 60 litre tank)

 

[thedutchman]

1) Honda S2000
2) +- 10-20km above speed limit, sometimes briefly about 250-260km/h, where its safe, and I can see at least no cars for km's (my life, don't lecture)

hahahaha

 

[thedutchman]

1) Chrysler Grand Voyager LX CRD
2) +- 0 - 40 above speed limit
3) its a diesel, up to 4000 i think
4) about 700km on a 77 L tank

 

[xrapidx]

1) Audi A3 3.2 V6

Isn't that an S3?