I find I get higher MPG at 70 than I do at 60! It's all to do with throttle position. In some cases, when I was in France for example, I was getting 45MPG at 80mph!

I'm pretty much doing all town driving. Normally in the traffic of the school run and I'm getting about 260 miles to a tank (about 55 quid) which I don't mind too much. Was getting 220 miles from 80-85 quid in my old car!

I've had a look through the archives and dug out the figures from a couple of Top Gear style tests I did years ago. It's a bit different in mine to you guys since in the pre-facelift you don't have the trip computer telling you many miles to go etc. But..

1) The first I stuck to 2000 rpm from a full tank for just general driving around. The petrol light came on after 313 miles.

2) I did the same again at 2500 rpm. This time I just got to 306 miles.

3) After a trip down to Portsmouth, I filled up at the Shell Victory on the edge of the city before driving back to Whitehaven - a distance of 375 miles. I then cruised up at pretty much a constant 60 on the motorways and DC's all the way back. The petrol light came on bang on 6 miles form home, so 369 miles.

And... what you have to remember is the petrol light generally comes on with 50 miles to go, so the last one does show it's possible to break the 400 mile mark on a full tank.

I'm same as you Chris having no trip computer but I have an app on the phone which records all petrol usage etc. I've had 40mpg from one tank on a pure motorway run before so at that rate I would of fallen just short of 400. Definitely possible to break into it

really interesting statistics Chris! Ive tried to keep below 2500rpm where possible and its saying ive got 176 miles till empty atm and thats over 4 days..

its just interesting to see how its differs from my old pug 106 (1.1)

I wish mine showed that. I filled up monday and it said 250 miles to empty and i have a bigger tank than you guys

Have just found some of the old top gear style tests, Chris, Scotty and myself have done.
http://www.fordfiestast.co.uk/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=106758&page=2&fpart=1&vc=1

http://www.fordfiestast.co.uk/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=129312&page=122&fpart=2&vc=1

Well not quite 289 miles, must have been heavy footed



If its not clear what I have done, I set a trip from when I filled the tank to see what I would get out of it

Oh dear that's not good, how do you lot get through so much fuel in them, I used to get about 34mpg!

think mines one 27 mpg..

I'm on average 31.5 with mostly town driving, i must be driving like a grandad!

I've got 25mpg average from the Clio this tank. I have had a slightly heavy foot though testing it.