Anyone with a new mini one?

[yorkshiremuggles]

Hi, I wonder whether anyone has a new Mini. I bought mine just a few weeks ago, a baby Mini One. One of the reasons I chose it was the supposed fuel efficiency - listed as 53mpg combined. I didn't expect to get the listed mpg as that's always really optimistic, but I am struggling around the 40mpg mark. Anyone else have a One? Any ideas about what I might be doing 'wrong'?

I absolutely love the car, and am definitely a convert, btw

Any help would be really appreciated! And apologies if I am no good with all the technical terms!

[royandrew]

I got a 2007 mini cooper and according to the computer my avg mpg is 43 (from the centre dash display). Don't know how accurate it is.

[Sportspack Mark]

What is most of your driving consist of?

Town driving? Motorway

How do you accelerate? Hard or smoothly? What are the tyre pressures like? Do you do lots of short journeys where the car doesnt fully warm up?

These all add up to your overall mpg

[Murker1991]

my one gets about 40 aswell, still quite good i think for how i drive

[Defender]

Quote: Originally Posted by yorkshiremuggles (original)

Hi, I wonder whether anyone has a new Mini. I bought mine just a few weeks ago, a baby Mini One. One of the reasons I chose it was the supposed fuel efficiency - listed as 53mpg combined. I didn't expect to get the listed mpg as that's always really optimistic, but I am struggling around the 40mpg mark. Anyone else have a One? Any ideas about what I might be doing 'wrong'?
I absolutely love the car, and am definitely a convert, btw
Any help would be really appreciated! And apologies if I am no good with all the technical terms!

Welcome to MINI ownership, glad to hear you're enjoying MINI ownership .
By new you mean 'brand new', or just new to you?, if it's just new to you, how many miles has it done?
As a rule a new car will need to get at least several thousand miles under it before you can expect to get close to peak fuel economy, my experience is somewhere between 5-8 thousand miles is quite normal.
This is due to closer tolerances that engine components are made to and the materials being much better than cars of years ago, means it takes longer for the clearances optimising.
The flip side of all this is the life is generally much longer, being into the 100,000's of miles.
Your driving has the greatest effect on the mpg your MINI will return, ie. how your drive and the nature of the journey, town or city, cross country, motorway crusing?
Just as a note, on my 2006 R50 Cooper the MPG figure given by the on board trip computer is a bit better than the actual calculated figure, my average for the last 10,000 miles is a shade over 40mpg.

[Jeeringtowser]

Quote: Originally Posted by yorkshiremuggles (original)

Hi, I wonder whether anyone has a new Mini. I bought mine just a few weeks ago, a baby Mini One. One of the reasons I chose it was the supposed fuel efficiency - listed as 53mpg combined. I didn't expect to get the listed mpg as that's always really optimistic, but I am struggling around the 40mpg mark. Anyone else have a One? Any ideas about what I might be doing 'wrong'?

I absolutely love the car, and am definitely a convert, btw

Any help would be really appreciated! And apologies if I am no good with all the technical terms!

You don't state whether it is Petrol or Diesel!
My MINI One D was new in September, I do a combination of about 1.5 miles each way to work 4 days a week and one longish return journey of 50 miles each way. I am getting 54mpg on the computer.
Regards,
Chris

[debash]

I have a brand new mini one too - 1 month old. So far the best I've managed is 36mpg. Quite concerned as this is my 3rd mini and with my previous models I've managed around the 51mpg mark (even with the 'uneconomical' 1st gen). My new mini one is advertised as being more economical than any of the previous models but I'm not convinced at present. I also find that the engine compared to my 05 and 08 reg, is far less refined. It seems to run quite roughly when it is cold and is so much louder than the other models, until it has warmed up. It sounds so much like a diesel engine when it is cold. Does anyone else experience this with their new mini one?

[caodan2010]

What color mini did u guys get?

[sootyvrs]

I have just picked up my new Cooper D on the 23rd Dec and am managing 47 mpg which is mostly town driving.

The official Urban cycle states 67 mpg but I do believe the extreme cold weather has the biggest effect as the car is taking a lot longer to warm up and i believe there are also additional additives to help with fuel not freezing.

The fact that the car is not yet run in also will not help but I will expect the mpg to improve when the temps rise and also after a few thousand miles under it's belt.

I'm hoping to go out on a run today so perhaps it will improve.

[debash]

Quote: Originally Posted by debash (original)

I have a brand new mini one too - 1 month old. So far the best I've managed is 36mpg. Quite concerned as this is my 3rd mini and with my previous models I've managed around the 51mpg mark (even with the 'uneconomical' 1st gen). My new mini one is advertised as being more economical than any of the previous models but I'm not convinced at present. I also find that the engine compared to my 05 and 08 reg, is far less refined. It seems to run quite roughly when it is cold and is so much louder than the other models, until it has warmed up. It sounds so much like a diesel engine when it is cold. Does anyone else experience this with their new mini one?

Hooray! Just done a 300 mile run and now up to 42mpg! Here's hoping it continues to improve (fingers crossed!)

[WTX139]

Quote: Originally Posted by Defender (original)

Welcome to MINI ownership, glad to hear you're enjoying MINI ownership .
By new you mean 'brand new', or just new to you?, if it's just new to you, how many miles has it done?
As a rule a new car will need to get at least several thousand miles under it before you can expect to get close to peak fuel economy, my experience is somewhere between 5-8 thousand miles is quite normal.
This is due to closer tolerances that engine components are made to and the materials being much better than cars of years ago, means it takes longer for the clearances optimising.
The flip side of all this is the life is generally much longer, being into the 100,000's of miles.
Your driving has the greatest effect on the mpg your MINI will return, ie. how your drive and the nature of the journey, town or city, cross country, motorway crusing?
Just as a note, on my 2006 R50 Cooper the MPG figure given by the on board trip computer is a bit better than the actual calculated figure, my average for the last 10,000 miles is a shade over 40mpg.

Never heard of that before, but hope you're right because I'm only getting about 40mpg on my Mini One which I've had now 15 months and have done 4,400 mls. Will let you know what the consumption is like in roughly a year from now.

[chsr72]

Yup...42 mpg seems around the average for me on a combined style drive, much higher into the 50's on a long motorway run.

Ours is a '60 plate (white) new mini one with just over 2000 miles now.

Love it!!

Have to say of the many cars I have owned including 50k Porsches / BMW's our little basic mini one is quite the sweetest little car we have ever owned an absolute gem. The best 13k I think we've ever spent.

[Angib]

I think the idea of getting optimum fuel economy at 10,000m is an old idea, that dates from when cars were built to bigger tolerances and required lengthy running-in. This may still happen today, but I bet it is a very minor factor. Here is my nerd's record of my R57's fuel economy:



I could convince myself there is a tiny improvement between 0 and 10,000m but it's hardly significant and could be due to other things.

One warning is that I switched from 15" to 16" wheels at about 17,000m - you can see the 1-2mpg drop that caused.

[Defender]

Quote: Originally Posted by Angib (original)

I think the idea of getting optimum fuel economy at 10,000m is an old idea, that dates from when cars were built to bigger tolerances and required lengthy running-in. This may still happen today, but I bet it is a very minor factor. Here is my nerd's record of my R57's fuel economy:

I could convince myself there is a tiny improvement between 0 and 10,000m but it's hardly significant and could be due to other things.
One warning is that I switched from 15" to 16" wheels at about 17,000m - you can see the 1-2mpg drop that caused.

Interesting, I can't comment on my own MINI as it wasn't new when I got it.
My comments are made from my own personal experience, the last new 4 wheeled vehicle I had was a few years ago now in my previous job, when it was new I struggled to get 400 miles from a tank full, when I left it had done over 35,000 miles and was returning approx 450 miles per tank, I have noted a similar trend with my new motorcycles.
I do note a peak on both traces between approx 7,000 - 12,000 miles where it remains above 40mpg, from there on it declines steadily.
There may well be factors that account for this that you are aware of?