Sniff,

Der ould Galaxy when in holiday on the Continent gave 1000 miles to the tank, well with 1/2 a tank consumed and 500 miles on the trip her computer was telling us over 500 miles to fuel.

so 500 plus 500 = 1000.

And seriousley the advertised 72 litre tank has held 80 litres on occassion, when running on fumes limping into Muff ( in Donegal), so at an very realistic achievable 52.5mpg ( achieved many times brim to brim)=11.56 miles per litre *80 = 925 miles .

The daughter due to driving at 45miles per hour reg achieves 60 mpg odd on longer runs.

So it is possible.

Edited by dieseldogg on 31/05/2011 at 15:54

It depends how big the tank is! I have a 1.8l petrol Mazda 6 TS and I get 450 miles before I panic and fill up - the fuel gauge is terrible. I drive sedately in towns and like a bat out of hell on the motorway. I always try to sit in neutral at lights or in traffic jams.

I measure my tank in £ now anyway; I reckon cost is very important to people nowadays. I nearly cried when filling up my car from empty broke the £80 mark!

Mazdas have the nice little computer to tell you miles per litre and so on. All of the manufacturer-quoted mpgs that are knocking round nowadays are misleading at best.

510miles from Yaris d4d 40 litre tank.. with about 3 litres left.. Long run at 60mph in summer.

42Kg out of a total mass of ~2500Kg. The rule of thumb is that removing 100lb of weight (~42Kg) reduces fuel consumption by ~1%.

and a little air tree freshioners

respect ebbing away rapidly! those things smell worse than stale fag smoke.

Edited by unthrottled on 03/06/2011 at 12:21

I found tutti frutti air freshener the other day. Oh deary me.