BIG clean GREEN said:
Last week I did a lot of motorway driving and have often wondered how many mpg I could get, so by doing 2000rpm most of the time and doing just shy of 60mph I managed to get 29.32mpg Nick.
That is impressive
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Last weekend (Fri-Sun) I took mine to Somerset (from Edinburgh) to attend a wedding. Four adults and a load of luggage (three women, you see
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968 miles, doing around 2,800 - 3,000 rpm on the M74 / M6 / M5 and I averaged 24.55mpg, pretty much as I expected.
There were a lot of hold-ups on the run south on Friday which wouldn't have helped the economy. 9.5 hours going south, 8.5 hours going north (with one additional stop).
According to my sat-nav, 76mph on the speedo is actually 70mph.
mine's a '98 LWB manual 90 with the 1KZ-TE motor, 125,000 miles by the time I got home.
No problems with the car and it used about 0.5 litres of oil.
I normally use a Focus Estate, 1.8 TDCi, Ghia which returns about 54mpg and is comfortable for these long runs. However my younger daughter is six months pregnant and I thought she would be more comfortable in the Colorado. It also gave me an excuse to give it a long run.
I was quite impressed with the LC. Its a comfortable drive, but a bit of a shock at motorway filling stations
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You did well, but I don't think I could have stood the strain of keeping below 60 for that sort of journey. If I had averaged 29.32mpg, I would have saved 29.2 litres, or £36.50 @ £1.25/litre.
Fortunately, the LC normally does less than 2,000 miles per year.
Bob.