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ssimms · Apr 25th, 2003, 11:50 PM

Yes, actually that is one US gallon. I am more than pleased with this figure. Now, to add to that I should point out that before turning 5000 miles on the odometer I had never done better than 37.3 but, it appears as the motor loosens up the mileage is improving. Also, I found this most recent increase followed the most recent BMW CCA autocross I attended. Great fun. Let my tank run to nearly the reserve light before the autox and then ran with the red light on all day. Just out of curiosity I had reset the mileage computer and found that during the autox, the Cooper was returning 34 MPG. Pretty impressive in my mind. 5500-6200 RPM all day in second gear.
Good time was had by all and 6 of our group drive Cooper S models and outclassed the CS class of M3's.

Apr 25th, 2003, 11:50 PM	#8
ssimms Old user out of touch Join Date: May 2002 Location: Colorado Local Time: 08:18 PM Posts: 39 Offline	MPG Yes, actually that is one US gallon. I am more than pleased with this figure. Now, to add to that I should point out that before turning 5000 miles on the odometer I had never done better than 37.3 but, it appears as the motor loosens up the mileage is improving. Also, I found this most recent increase followed the most recent BMW CCA autocross I attended. Great fun. Let my tank run to nearly the reserve light before the autox and then ran with the red light on all day. Just out of curiosity I had reset the mileage computer and found that during the autox, the Cooper was returning 34 MPG. Pretty impressive in my mind. 5500-6200 RPM all day in second gear. Good time was had by all and 6 of our group drive Cooper S models and outclassed the CS class of M3's. Scott Simms 1999 BMW 528i, 1997 BMW 318i 2003 MINI Cooper (currently 126200 miles)