Massivley boring thread but am planning a long drive at the end of the month and am just doin the math on fuel budget. I got a 2005 WRX Sports wagon which Im thinkin will do around 260 miles to a tank this is 90% motorway driving also and dont planning on booting it too hard. Anyone suggest MPG consumption? cheers

 

30 ish on a run i would think

 

Someone on here got 400 miles to a tank. I'd expect with enough motorway you could get 30mpg though.

 

how long is the journey? official figure is 31mpg i believe, whether you get that depends solely on your driving style.

may seem harsh but i have always thought that if you need to think about this kind of thing then maybe you need to consider an alternative means of transportation.

 

Thanks, what speed is neccesary to acheive 31mpg? Yea I know what u mean the journey is 200 miles each way so not to bad.

 

Depends on the car and mods. You could do 70 all the way and get more but it's all situational. You should know what mpg your car does.

I get these;
Motorway - 36
Day to day - 30
School run (Short Journeys) - 26

 

Lot of different variables involved here fella, wind direction, temperature, UV index, altitude gain and loss, gravitational force of the moon, quality of wax used on bodywork, front bumper insect strike ratio, how many pies you've eaten oh and of course whether or not you've done the exhaust flange inlet manifold negative camber mod.

 

gravatational force of the moon pmsl

 

My car did 140 Miles to a third of a tank on the way to Skegness This was a mixture of mainly motorway and some country roads before hitting the towns.

I pretty much cruised along all morning at 60 and kept it off boost and when i returned home 2 days later did the same and got home with a third if a tank left

 

I do a 400 mile round trip every 2 weeks. I drive a MY99 wagon. Never worked out the MPG but i will spend £80 on fuel for the whole trip. That is sat between 70-80 mph.

 

id guess at 300 to the tank with a mostly downhill cruise at 70-80

 

The 31mpg is with 16" wheels? Standard tyres?
The truth is there is no standard tread used by all users and people put on bigger rims. This will also affect the MPG.
For my car they quote 32mpg, even with clever gizmo's and adding 100mls of acetone per 45 litres I get 31mpg as a best. This is a country to urban trundle, and is for a 4 door GX sport with prodrive 17 x 7 rims running 205 17 50 Dunlop M3 winter sport tyres.
But every time I get in and set off a smile appears on my face.

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/specs/...aspx?model=850

This links to some more data for the individual cars 2003 ville.

 

id did uttoxeter to manchester airport and back on a 1/4 of a tank, which i though was good, it was a 120 mile round trip. Mines a Turbo 2000

 

http://www.fuelly.com/car/subaru/wrx/2005 Click the 'UK' in the top left hand corner.

If you look into each person, profile it'll tell you their best mpg per tank etc

 

On a recent holiday to Scotland in my STI I got 31mpg on the motorway and 17 around the highlands. Used 419 L of V power in total over about 2k miles.