who runs there car as a daily?

[rtd]

interested to know what everyone is getting mpg wise from there cars as daily drivers. I'm thinking of doing this and I do a daily commute of 40miles motorway and the rest inner-city consisting of another 12 miles taking the daily commute to 52.

[IanH755]

Yeap, I do 40 miles a day (200 a week) - 20 Motorway, 14 A-road and 6 B-road - so pretty much use 4/5ths of a tank of fuel (250 miles max) mon-fri averaging 18-22mpg depending on traffic and the occasional lead-foot moment.

[LukasPukas]

I run mine as a daily commuter, around 50 miles a day. Mostly motorway bookended with a bit of A-roads.

I don't drive it with a lead foot for most of the journey (wouldn't be able to due to the traffic), with the odd burst when I take an A-road detour and I have a long term average of 18.2 mpg (only know the exact as by conincidence I checked the computer this morning).

Computer steadfastly predicts I will get 340 miles out of a tank, but I consistently get around 260-280 at best.

[IanH755]

When my propshaft bearing failed I had to drive at less than 2000rpm for a few weeks until it could be fixed and my Trip Computer said my range went upto 410 miles and even then I still couldn't get more than about 320 miles - the trip computer is a lying SOB!

[rtd]

thanks guys, very useful info indeed! I think I may keep my current car as a run around and then I do have to drive like miss daisy on the days I do take it to work.

[AudiPartner]

18 ish sounds pretty standard then. If you really try then you get 20 or just over.

Sounds like a lot of miles at that sort of MPG. I use mine daily but my office is 4 miles from home.

[GC1978]

10 ish for me. <20mph most of the drive.

[Shinobi675]

In the last year, average speed 33mph, average 17mpg. Not that lead footed and probably 60% motorway distances.

[stuartk]

This is good as it must mean a B7 Rs4 is 300+ per tank

[Shinobi675]

I get about 250 a tank.

[Stevev-RS6]

I'm doing between 150 and 250 miles a week in mine, mostly A roads, but some B roads and dual carriageway mixed in. My average is 18.4mpg over 5000+ miles, with the best being 23.4 on a gently run to Wales in July on the M4.

Cheers

Steve

[skirs6]

I turn all that stuff off. If you're concerned about fuel don't buy a 5ltr v10 twin turbo monster

[rtd]

I turn all that stuff off. If you're concerned about fuel don't buy a 5ltr v10 twin turbo monster

I didn't say I was concerned I was trying to gauge what real world mpg driving figures are.

[doodlebug]

They are predictably terrible.

[IanH755]

Just looked at my average over the 11000 miles I've done since buying and it's bang on 17.5mpg which includes track days, motorways, general commuting/driving and hoons around Kent etc