Is anyone else on Fuelly? Post your MPG here!

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I'd like to do this, but my car is rarely ever over half a tank, and I drive it with the idiot light on alot. Pretty sure I'm about 21mpg avg in my Subaru. My mom has a last gen Legacy, and she averages 27mpg mixed, and gets about 34mpg highway at 65mph. That shows how far technology advanced from my car to hers. (Same engine and transmission)
 
I signed up, got a picture up, and even gassed up tonight so I can start tracking! Am excite. Not much to show for it yet...



Pretty sure I win the bad mileage contest. NONE!
 
1990 Mercedes 300E.

Broken odometer. I average 25mpg on good weeks, but can get in the low teens when i'm constantly in a hurry. Best I did was a long trip to Phoenix; 519 miles on one tank. 28.XXmpg.
 
Jondot
Again, exactly the same as mine. Does beg the question though - why did they bother sticking the extra gear in there?!
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I'm thinking partly because it would have been even worse otherwise, but mostly because it gives the car the sort of performance they were looking for. The engine is from a Punto normally and has a 5-speed box in that, so to make better use of the fairly peaky powerband for decent performance they chucked in a close-ratio box. I think Fiat put economy a distant second behind acceleration. Just happens that it's not too bad on fuel regardless.
 
When you guys fill your tank to full, do you just stop filling the tank the first time the gas pump stops?
 
homeforsummer
Nope, Fiat fit a 6th but forgot to make it a cruising gear. Whilst this is good for acceleration and means downchanges are rarely needed at motorway speeds (and it can pull in 6th from 30mph), economy is nowhere near as good as it could be. I think it's doing about 3,500rpm at 70mph, which is 1,000rpm higher than it really should be doing.

A 7th gear wouldn't go amiss...
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My 6th is very much an overdrive. It can accelerate when it's in it, but it does so under protest and quite slowly. It grates to have to change down from 6th to overtake on a motorway, and changing down to 5th can also be required when going up a hill. At 70 in 6th my engine is ~3500 too but mine has no torques down that low.

 
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daan
My 6th is very much an overdrive. It can accelerate when it's in it, but it does so under protest and quite slowly. It grates to have to change down from 6th to overtake on a motorway, and changing down to 5th can also be required when going up a hill. At 70 in 6th my engine is ~3500 too but mine has no torques down that low.
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It'd be interesting doing a 6th gear pull from 70mph in each car :D Wonder how close it'd be between the 100bhp car and the 220+bhp car...

'Tis all relative though. Strongly suspect yours still pulls better from 3.5k than the Fiat, it'll just seem significantly slower compared to what yours does at higher revs.
 
I'm not signed up to that site but here we go:

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daan
My 6th is very much an overdrive. It can accelerate when it's in it, but it does so under protest and quite slowly. It grates to have to change down from 6th to overtake on a motorway, and changing down to 5th can also be required when going up a hill. At 70 in 6th my engine is ~3500 too but mine has no torques down that low.

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Ooooo, you...



I think I can bring that up. I've been driving like a ricer lately with my loud exhaust. Also, I wouldn't doubt that my 5th gear is geared about as low as yours. The thing feels like it'll go to the moon - apparently 5th tops somewhere in the 180s mathematically. At 3500 our torques are probably about the same, too. The Renesis is fairly high strung compared to mine - the old mill is much more restrictive, won't make power above 7500 in stock trim, but does have a satisfyingly flat torque curve. Anywhere between 3000 and 7500 I have plenty of useful power, relatively speaking.
 
Keef
Ooooo, you...

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Remember that my 21.8mpg works out to 18.1 US mpg...

It sounds like your 5th is halfway between my 5th and 6th. If it had the power, my 5th is mathematically capable of ~160mph, and 6th for ~190mph IIRC.
 
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I've been able to get up to 27MPG with this car. The last fill up I added today but forgot a few things since it was several days ago:


Though I can see that it's not like a guzzler like some of the other vehicles on here.
 
daan
Remember that my 21.8mpg works out to 18.1 US mpg...

It sounds like your 5th is halfway between my 5th and 6th. If it had the power, my 5th is mathematically capable of ~160mph, and 6th for ~190mph IIRC.
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Dang speed racer! Be easy on that gas pedal.
 
Not on Fuelly, but my Avg MPG is between 13-15 for my 2000 Volvo S80 2.9L FWD (non-T6).

Bad, I know.
 
Just signed both cars up for this, it's suprisingly exciting and addictive!

So far (1 fill up each):

KIA Pro_Cee'd Sport did 53.6 UK / 44.6 US MPG
VW Golf 1.9TDI did 50.1 UK / 41.7 US MPG

Both are a little lower than usual, so am looking forward to getting good stats up!

Update 13/08/2011: have just managed 57.5 in my KIA, giving me a new average of 55.5! Happy days...
 
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Boom.

I had a bad tank earlier, 421km on 35L of gas (28.5ish mpg, 8.3L/100km). Lots of driving on the 401 at 120-130 km/h and having the A/C on for my weenie friends killed it. This time, I drove with my girlfriend, who gets nervous when I drive fast (by fast she means 90km/h in an 80), so I did a steady 80 km/h the whole time with the windows down. I drove 344km on 14.77L of gas, which equals 4.3L/100km, or 54.8 Mpg.

Corolla. Word.

http://www.fuelly.com/driver/noob616/corolla
 
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So far the stiis doing 19mpg for the life of the car and 21 on the current tank. I drive a mix all the time, not too much hwy not too much interstate. Lots of fun with acceleration and plenty of easy going... Might sign up with Fuelly today, headed to check it out now.
 
Kent
So far the stiis doing 19mpg for the life of the car and 21 on the current tank. I drive a mix all the time, not too much hwy not too much interstate. Lots of fun with acceleration and plenty of easy going... Might sign up with Fuelly today, headed to check it out now.
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I signed up but haven't used a whole tank yet to post the fancy graphic.

So far the little MPG meter on my heads up display says 36mpg, so I think I'm doing ok. :dopey:
 
Still cracking on just under the official figures. This is in US mpg, in UK that's about 43mpg I think.

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R1600Turbo
What's with the red line? Track day?
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No, I'm not sure to be honest. Could be an anomalous result as there are only a couple that bad. Those fill-ups in March were all when I was away at the Geneva show too, so it could be related to fast motorway cruising driving up through France (and over rather steep bits of motorway through the Alps...), mixed with the car not being in as good health as it is now (the most recent fill ups were also all fast continental cruising to and from Frankfurt).
 
I monitered my fuel economy on our way to Syndey in my GT-Four, with pretty much highway driving (110 km/h) plus a very small amount of inner city driving it returned 9.1 L per 100kmh, which according to my little conversion tool is 25 mpg (us).
 

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