Worried about the fuel consumption

[Wind Diesel]

2day i made an account on a german webpage, where you can enter the date / liters fueled on your car' and looked up the different Cooper D's .. i was shocked...

Overview: Mini - Mini Cooper D

Feel free, to make your own account, and make the stats better.. from reading the threads inhere about fuel consumption, i was convinced that the Cooper D could do MUCH better than what i just saw.. and told the bank, the same thing, as a good reason for buying the Cooper D

[kertjycoth]

Mine is new, well 800 miles new and the engine is very tight. MPG should improve as they all do with mileage. Currently getting abot 58 mpg with mixed driving.

[tiaguito]

Hi, mine is also new, 300 miles now and I'm getting 47mpg mixed (60% city 40% road). I'ts now great but I think the 17'' wheels and 205 tires are not helping also.

[Wind Diesel]

Average on spritmonitor is 50,2 MPG (Imp) !!! Dissapointing... I really hope i will be able to do 70 mpg at least.

[57SGH]

Into the 2nd week of ownership.
350 miles covered - mixed - 60% city 40% rural. (11 miles each way)
Not been able to use the stop start yet, as the city traffic keeps moving slowly.

So 55 mpg at the moment is not so bad.

When I test drove the demonstrator over the same journey it returned 65 mpg.

So I take it that the cold weather and tight engine is affecting the overall consumption.

I have the 17 inch 205 run flat tyres, the demonstrator had the 16 inch standard wheels.

[KenL]

Quote: Originally Posted by Wind Diesel (original)

Average on spritmonitor is 50,2 MPG (Imp) !!! Dissapointing... I really hope i will be able to do 70 mpg at least.

I think expecting the car to do at least 70mpg is over optimistic.

MINI like other car's quote combined figures that no-one seems to be able to match.

My R56 is averaging about 43mpg (going down in colder weather) - manufacturer claims ~50mpg combined.

My mkV golf averaged ~41mpg - VW said 48.

My R50 averaged about 36mpg - again, MINI claimed quite a bit better than this.

[Sooper J]

The highest i got out of mine was 70mpg on the way back from cornwall, but obviously i was pretty much in 6th gear all the way

[Wind Diesel]

Now thats more like it . i drive 150 kilometers every day, at 95 km/h in 6'th gear.. in my Peugeot !

[black olive]

as stated the engine will be tight for a few thousand miles and things will improve.
ours has done about 50mpg over the first hundred miles, my ZT260 V8 struggles to manage 20mpg, but its worth it

[sav112]

ZT260 V8 struggles to manage 20mpg, got offerd one the other day 55 plate spotless in black it was only 12K and had low mile's on it....but its a Rover even with 4lt its still a Rover.

Still it was a great price.....the guy was wanting rid of it as he never drives it now.

[black olive]

Quote:

but its a Rover even with 4lt its still a Rover.

Bit of a meaningless statement, your point is ???

[sav112]

Just that I’d been offerd it, all I could see was the Rover Badge. Not one I wanted on my car. I’m not a fan of the cars that’s all.

[KenL]

Quote: Originally Posted by sav112 (original)

Just that I’d been offerd it, all I could see was the Rover Badge. Not one I wanted on my car. I’m not a fan of the cars that’s all.

It's a good (designed under the ownership of BMW) car.

[andrewcregan]

61.2 mpg

My average drive is two 28 mile journeys a day - to work and back. About 20% of the journey is on roads where I do 30-60mph, and the other 80% is Motorway, where I generally stick to about 75mph.
I once managed just over 72 mpg, on a 15 mile motorway journey - I think I must have had the wind behind me

I am generally happy with my fuel consumption - its just the price of fuel

Merry Christmas to fellow Mini2 readers, Andrew

[Deanliv]

MR C! I cant believe you drive in excess of the UK national speed limit!!!! 75MPH!!!!!!! hahaha 70MPH from now on!