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[kbou55]

i get 23mpg around town and about 38 on motorway run, i calculated it manually yesterday& checked with the computers average, 1mpg out! not bad!

thats a 3.0 auto elite saloon though
, and i do have a heavy right boot every now and then!

with my boot being heavy most the time, goes down to 8-10 mpg

the wife's zafira goes down to 7.6mpg when i'm gunning it, beat ya

my boss as an x reg 1.8 zafira, he is always moaning about how crap on mpg it is, i thought it would be good! why so bad? just size and weight? i was shocked!

its a pig around town, around 24mpg . sometimes i drive it to work and i get a respectful 40 mpg at 60mph with the cruise on and a/c off. it has a combined 30ish mpg. but she loves the damn thing.

i hear the 1.6 is worse though.........................

[Doodley]

ah yeah now you mention it i think it may be the 1.6 - i'd much rather stick to the beasty miggy!

[TheBoy]

i get 23mpg around town and about 38 on motorway run, i calculated it manually yesterday& checked with the computers average, 1mpg out! not bad!

thats a 3.0 auto elite saloon though
, and i do have a heavy right boot every now and then!

with my boot being heavy most the time, goes down to 8-10 mpg

the wife's zafira goes down to 7.6mpg when i'm gunning it, beat ya

Virtually all petrols can go down to 7.1mpg when booting hard  (Looks like computer won't read below 7.1).  

[markey mark]

ive had mine to 6.9 mpg on computer !! chasing motorbike on a19  8-)

[Paul M]

ive had mine to 6.9 mpg on computer !! chasing motorbike on a19  8-)

Did you win?

 

[zirk]

I use to have a Ford Ultima Cosworth nearly 3 litres of V6, and pure mussel (no Turbo), if you switched off the overdrive, put the thing in sport mode and hit the load pedal from a standing start the computer will tell you its doing 1.5 MPG, really not cheap, lovely noise though!

Zirk

[Humpy]

My 3.0 Manual Estate has 24.8 mpg on it at the moment but I haven't reset that since I bought it back in September. I've done a fair smattering of both motorway and urban so I guess that's no too bad. I do have a couple of questions though. Firstly, when if I'm about to do a long motorway journey should I reset the Av MPG first as at the moment it really drags to get above 25mpg. And secondly, whilst having a bit of fun the other day in the wet with the traction control off, I realised that the car is a whole different animal! I drove the car as normal but it was all over the place Now I was wondering if by having the Traction Control on it pushes your mpg up by putting such a drag on the engine with the ABS brakes etc. What do you think?

Humpy

PS I might leave the Trction Control off more often, it's much more fun!!!

[Kevin Wood]

The only time traction control does anything is when it detects one of the driven wheels slipping so I very much doubt it affects fuel consumption.

Does spoil the fun though.

Kevin