ok this is mainly directed at gareth as he travelled from the lake district to london (i think it was london) i was just wondering how much it cost you in petrol there and back? i'm travelleing to brighton and back (via silverstone of course) and i'm not sure of how much money i'd need for petrol. Its roughly 1000 miles maybe less and mainly on motorway, and i do drive sensibly. honest- ask anyone! so does anyone have a rough figure. i did the same distance in a 1.25i fiesta last year and it cost about £30-£40. obviously it will be more, but roughly how much more? relevant figures plesae. dont try to scare me with the £150 figures. unless it will be that much!

A thousand Miles ? £40.00 ? I wish !

yeah that was in a 1.2 i said, and thinking about it i didnt go as far i only went 750 miles that time

Well, I drive mainly to work on 50 mph roads in 5th, guess that's about as good driving type as you can for fuel. I get about 150 miles per £20 so by that you would be looking at around £130 to £150 for 1k miles..

If your car consumes petrol at 32mpg and petrol prices are 96.9p you are looking to spend £140. So if we say 1 gallon equals 4.55 litres we divide the mpg by 4.5 to get miles per litre which is 7 miles to a litre. So divide the 1000 mile trip by miles per litre which is 7 to give you a figure of 143 litres. Times the price at the pumps (0.969p) by litres (143)and you get one unhappy bunny or £139!

no way u did 1000 or even 750 miles on only £30-£40 quids worth of petrol ,unless a 1.25 fez can manage 100mpg+or so lol !!! either its a lot less miles than u think or you spent a lot more on petrol ?

Fordie use the train probalby cheaper!! WhenIm driving from North France to south England I need to refill 3 Times 1 to go to england 1 while Im in England and 1 To go back to France! That what I call expensive cost me lot of money £60 to £80! to do 450 Miles driving fast!

ooops my bad. just been on the rac website to check properly and it did 600 miles for about £50 quid. what was i thinking when i said £30! it didnt half suprosed me though.

as for over £100 quid, i better get saving

i can get from kent to liverpool on a tank sitting at about 90 all the way and it costs a tank each way and thats a 650 mile round trip. so if you did it @ 65 - 70 prob cost you around 100 mark

well i av just worked out my petrol consumption for this week. £30 (30.33 litres) quid got me around 260 miles. so on that basis, my car did around 39 miles to the gallon. yeay!

can anyone tell me what the following mean: urban & extra urban? i take it urban is city driving, but whats the other? cos apparently you can do 49mpg when driving extra urban!

I've found the official definitions of the two and they are:

"Urban cycle
The urban test cycle is carried out in a laboratory at an ambient temperature of 20°C to 30°C on a rolling road from a cold start, i.e. the engine has not run for several hours. The cycle consists of a series of accelerations, steady speeds, decelerations and idling. Maximum speed is 31 mph (50 km/h), average speed 12 mph (19 km/h) and the distance covered is 2.5 miles (4 km).

Extra-urban cycle
This cycle is conducted immediately following the urban cycle and consists of roughly half steady-speed driving and the remainder accelerations, decelerations, and some idling. Maximum speed is 75 mph (120 km/h), average speed is 39 mph (63 km/h) and the distance covered is 4.3 miles (7 km)."

so what cycle does motorway drving come in? the extra urban or somewhere inbetween