Well over 100 mpg on the trip computer at 30mph in 5th in a renault clio diesal (not my car) but i would gess it was doing 120ish
22 mpg on advanced driving lessons in a 1.4 petroil escort (my di that car give rubish fuel economy 35 was a good dayt and 33 was normal and that was on a 30 mile long run best ever was with my parents in it i managed 40 but crawled away from ever set of lights and never seems to go fast enought to need to brake.
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Hi bernie,
actually, we weren't working in Algeria we just though it would be a nice place to spend our hols. (Was it? Yes and no.)
We drove out from the UK to see if we could drive across the Grand Erg Occidental. This huge sand sea had not, at that time, ever been crossed by car (as far as we could tell from research at the Royal Geographical Society in London).
On our 1990 recce we got within 40 miles of a successful crossing using a standard Discovery and a 110 Tdi prototype. We went back the next year with two lighter 90s with sand tyres and two 110s for support vehicles but only got about 10 miles further. Ever tried driving over bottomless sand so fine it resembles talcum powder? The pictures I have of Defenders buried up to their sills...One day we only made 400 metres in 6 hours.
Incidentally, I am now Chairman of Jordan 4x4 Adventure (which gets me out and about).
CMark
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I used to tow my caravan from the Midlands to South Devon with a Mk2 Cavalier SRi getting 22mpg cruising at an indicated 70mph (about 63 really). When I used a mates Range Rover, we were down to 9mpg and it took just as long, and wasn't any more stable.
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My best was in a 1.1 Saxo during the Sept 2000 fuel blockades, had to get home from London, so kept to a steady 55, the M1 was empty. Then drove around town for 50 miles over the next few days and filled up and calculated 56mpg, the worse I ever had was in a 1.6 carb Pug 405 being 25mpg during winter and that was with a fair amount of motorway.
Interestingly, my Xsara returns 40mpg nearly all the time, and that is 10% less than the Saxo I owned before, despite weighing 25% more and having an engine 0.3 litres bigger. (MPi vs SPi as well)
Ben
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Golf 1986 GTI 8v worst 28mpg (welsh back roads on Rally day)
best 46 mpg during the fuel crisis!
Audi A2 TDI (hire car)- 60mpg whilst cruising down the Autobahn from Munich to the Alps between 110-120mph! Strange car!!!!
Leon 1.6 16v worst 26mph best 36mpg - something going very wrong!
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Had a Skoda Fabia SDi courtesy car today, "52" reg, 3400 miles. Did 62 miles at 66.5mpg in traffic at 42mph avg.
10mpg better than my Octavia SDi!
Once had to take a Maestro diesel van from A1(M) J10 to Swansea and back, set off at 3am because the driver who had it the day before brought it back with a deafeningly noisy wheel bearing and we didn't have time to change it. Drove at 50-55mph all the way there and back (at which it was only just into 5th gear), checked the figures on return and had to double-check them! 91mpg on the A1(M),M25 and M4...
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XJ6 towing caravan at steady x0 mph ..12mpg!
madf
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Brother dorve a Countax ride on garden mower from John O'Groats to Lands End. Briggs & Stratton horizontal V-twin, flat out against the (bent to give more speed) governer, gave 6.6MPH max, and about 12MPG over the 18 days that it took. The 3.9 V8 Disco that was lent to him as a support vehicle burned less fuel, even towing a large box trailer!
Flat out on the Autobahn in my Vectra GSi Estate, with an indicated 150MPH up, showed 11 MPG on the instantaneous fuel consumption readout.
My Honda Hornet CB600 gives 0-60MPH in three point something seconds, overtakes as quickly as you can think about it, and averages 50MPG. :-)
/Steve
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150mph at 11mpg gives you just over an hour between fill-ups on a 15 gallon tank. That must have cut your average speed down quite a bit.
My best was a fortnight driving round Ireland in a Pug 309 diesel. We did 710 miles in a leisurely fortnight, on one 55 litre tank, and filled up just before getting back on the ferry to come home. Worst was this summer in a Dodge Intrepid, driving in the mountains near Lake Tahoe, CA. On one of the many 15 gallon tank-fulls it managed just 120 miles. Yet on a freeway cruise (70mph) it did 300. Shocking.
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