Just wondering what MPG you guys are getting. I was on a long run at the weekend and it didnt go over 22.5

I usually have a 10 litres for 100 km...

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Falling below 26mpg in my TDv8 is a bad day! Usually getting between 26 and 28 driving locally on the country roads (I don't commute so the car does very little town driving). 3or 4 times a year I drive from Central Scotland to the south coast of England or London (just home last night from a week in the big smoke) on the motorway sat on the cruise (the TDv8 has adaptive cruise control so varies the speed to maintain a set distance between me and the car in front and most times accelerates the car quite gently with out doing gear changes for sprint take-offs) at 70 with the odd blat up to higher speeds to clear bunching traffic or idiots then I'm getting between 31-34mpg - my average yesterday was 31.4mpg on an average speed for the trip (from the trip comp) was 68mph. What knackered my averages was 2 long sections of motorway where I was not able to turn off the engine as the traffic was trickling along at 5-10mph through roadworks where there had also been accidents - there was also a section on the M74 where there was 8 miles of slow moving traffic where idiots kept slowing down to rubberneck an accident where a caravan had snaked and rolled across two lanes on the carriageway. Otherwise I would have had an average mpg of around 33 for the trip.
HOWEVER, here's the let-out - on Friday driving from Luton to Southampton in the Friday rush 3 hours the trip comp never got above 24mpg, also the car had been in CHPR for a service with the same tankful of fuel so had sat with the engine idling in the service bay for a long time.
I have found that the TDv8 really rewards you well in the mpg if you drive it thoughtfully and don't use the power to it's full potential for supersonic take-offs
I ran a TDv6 for 2.5 years before the TDv8 and the mpg was similar to that in country driving but I only once did a long trip where the average ever got above 33. I'm well pleased with the TDv8 - so much more get up and go for no penalty at the pumps! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Last edited by Tim in Scotland on Mon Oct 13 2008 5:08pm. Edited 1 time in total

About 22 - 23mpg town driving.

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18mpg average with about 22mpg on runs similar to Tim's above.....




but it is a petrol 4.4

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Will do Tim.
A deal fell through recently on one, but I'm looking closely at another one just now.

On a different note, I'm severly tempted by an Aston Martin V8 Vantage just now too!!!!
I'm also looking at a Jensen Interceptor.

So many cars and not enough money!!!!!! Hehe.
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Land Rover Defender 110 CSW 200 TDi blue (Offroad prep'ed).
Citroen C4 Grand Picasso
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Another Citroen C4 Grand Picasso (Christinemobile)
1990 Mini Cooper SE - classic! (now sold)
New addition - 1972 Triumph Stag Pimento Red

Interceptor FF would also be alongside a Citroen SM and a Stag in my dream classic car garage! I was at The Beaulieu Motor Museum on Sunday and they have a red Interceptor there but it isn't an FF. Even after all these years it still looks a good car but the running costs would be horrendous. On the A-M website, in the used car listings there is an A-M Lagonda - the William Towns designed one, for sale and they still want £39k for it! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

AM Lagonda will ALWAYS be in my dream garage.

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If you choose your classic car wisely it can be quite cheap to run. Pre 1973 are tax exempt and there are some really good deals on classic insurance with limited mileage.
97 quid/yr for a Stag, fully comp 5000 miles/yr - a touch more for the Jensen Interceptor.
With no road tax to pay, that's not too bad.

Of course if you choose it unwisely it can become a money pit. The steel used in the 1970's British cars was not the greatest quality or thickness, so rusts while you watch it. You can buy most parts for a Stag from Rimmer Bros, and Jensen Interceptor parts are readily available if you hunt around.

The one thing I don't have much of, is time, so I'm looking for classics that need very little or no work which means quite an initial outlay, (but usually cheaper than trying to sort out a rusted heap with a box of bits).



Sorry, this has gone a bit off topic so to get back on topic.........

I once got 231mpg out of the RRS by coasting down a really long, steep hill in neutral after just resetting the comp. Wish i could get that all the time!

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I had a Volvo 480ES for a couple of years and that had both average and instantaneous mpg readouts on the info dispay................... it was surprising how easy it was on the instantaneous readout to get 999.9mpg! It was quite an economical car to run - good mpg and a lifetime warranty, cheap Renault engine spares BUT it is the most unreliable car I have ever owned as it used to drown it's ECU with sickening regularity in wet weather if I ventured onto the motorway. In the 2 years I owned it the car never managed to get further south on the M6 than Hilton Park and on every occassion I ventured south in it, it would end the trip on the back of a flatbedv truck going to the Volvo dealership in Morecombe for draining out and drying. The cause of the problem was a grommet in the bulkhead that used to chafe through and let rainwater run into the passenger footwell via the glovebox which was also where the ECU was located. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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I drive like an idiot ( but a safe idiot) and rarely see higher than 22

21/22 was consistant for my london based driving (i use sport quite alot). The absolute worst ive had it was consistantly 15.4 mpg for a few days. That was after i got it back from the dealer to make sure everything was running perfect. Which it was and still is .

Did a run to manchester via M1/M6 and took the non motorway route from there to nottingham the morning after doing some slightly spirited traffic light driving in central manchester. Then took the M1 home from nottingham. 28 mpg for the trip. I take it fairly easy on motorways since i have 6 points but i never once engaged cruise control on this particular journey .

Ive also done a return trip to manchester and average 21/22ish mpg. I was also caught doing 119mph on this trip .

It all comes down to how your going to drive it . Beauty of the TDV8 is you get the best of both worlds. Although i was driving an AMV8 last night which has given me an itch to get a small toy.