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So I had a good 450 mile run this weekend. Now on a steady 80mph cruise control I reckon it was giving me about 45 to the gallon. But I just couldn't help myself a few times - ending up rather deep into the 3 figure speeds at times and blasting it in sport around some nice twisty roads.
So given that mix it gave me about 39mpg over the 450 odd miles. There were about 4 litres left so if I'd drained it I'd have gone 480 - which is not bad given the style of driving for the trip. I can believe the 500 miles before needing a fuel up on economical driving. I'd love to be able to try the 550 mark one day when I can inflict some self control... btw we had a bit of a rolling drag race from 70 upwards between me and an E90 330d pre LCi. The F31 pulled ahead and stayed there, but not by a huge amount. Slowed again when I scarily realised we were about to hit 140 - it felt so composed! One of my passengers asked if we were doing over a hundred... Need to watch for that - and set my speed warning so I don't drive silly.
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06-10-2013, 03:05 AM | #158 |
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Yep +1
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06-10-2013, 05:22 AM | #160 |
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You make your choice and "take your chances" personally I would not want to admit to anything "recordable".
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06-10-2013, 02:45 PM | #161 |
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Clearly I was making a fake boast. I'm too chicken to get to those speeds. Oh btw I killed Kennedy too.
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06-11-2013, 02:57 PM | #162 |
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i did a return trip to Yeovil yesterday from Bedfordshire... first long run in the car...
I was eager to see what I would get mpg wise. Although the trip down was rubbish... M25 & M4 traffic.. I still got 62mpg as recorded for the 209 miles... on the way back less traffic so I could cruse better... set that to 79... tried to keep below 80!!.. got 63.4.. would never see that in my old Audi |
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06-12-2013, 01:52 PM | #163 |
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hit 53.4 on a cruise up through deepest perthshire to kenmore then past loch earnhead on the way back,great roads for a run
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06-14-2013, 03:10 PM | #165 |
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Hahaha Sorry ZigmundUK didn't mean that... just realised i did that... oh well.. i'm happy with my mpg/performance.... your happy with your performance/mpg.. :-).
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06-15-2013, 04:32 PM | #166 |
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haha - indeed. Moving from a 25mpg-at-best audi A3 3.2 quattro even averaging 36 due to heavy right foot is great!
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07-26-2013, 02:23 PM | #167 |
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ok better know run to Edinburgh average 70 approx and got 55.9mpg great and got 570 miles out of the tank, so can see 600miles out of a tank no problem on long dual and motorway run for sure and only 1500 miles on clock
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Between inverness and Aberdeen on single carriageway a roads mostly, some dual sections with a couple of towns to go through, 60 -70 mph, averaged 52.5 mpg. Car has only 250 miles on the clock.
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I will add that I've just come back from a 55 mile trip, mixed roads including start/stop urban areas, average speed of 29MPH and it has averaged over 55MPG! Very impressed and after 1K miles my overall average is over 46MPG.
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07-26-2013, 04:01 PM | #170 |
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My average is a lot lower as had some fun for a start and do the school run with cold engine so 37 mpg so far but on the up
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As someone who has never had any trouble in meeting a quoted MPG when driving in the most efficient way possible, I am wondering what I have to do to get my 330D to return over 40MPG. A 200 mile roundtrip, mostly motorway in Eco Pro and rarely exceeding 70, combined with a bit of b road blasting in between (about 50 miles total), my average was about 37. Mixed driving with occasional bits of heavy throttle keeps it at 37. So far the car has done about 700 miles so maybe it will loosen up a bit. My experience is that to get it to average even 40 (nevermind 50) on any meaningfully long stretch requires me to drive in a way that is totally unrealistic, and in a way that I will never, ever do.
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We've got to remember the official figures are even more detached from reality in each new generation of designs, as the cars are setup to get the figures from light driving. Mid 40's is a realistic average for the F30 330d, in average driving. An improvement over the E90 models, but mpg shortfall is climbing as an average. HighlandPete |
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I'm still struggling to get 35...
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What are people getting with a F31 330d xDrive.
I'm getting an average of 37mpg, best being 41mpg on a long boring run on the M4. Have achieved 62mpg cruising on the motorway at 55mph following a lorry using the radar cruise control. I find it very hard not to stray into the sport mode and enjoy the acceleration. |
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