Sarnie Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 as there is a lot of weight to shift! Speak for yourself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebized Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Reading the road well ahead (on motorways in particular) to see blockages like lorries taking 3 miles to overtake something so you can adjust your speed/lane to avoid the last minute brakers who simply tunnel vision on the car in front, certainly helps the mpg. Also makes life safer by anticipating the clowns who suddenly realise they are then slowing and want to swing out at the last moment. But its then that annoying factor when you do leave decent stopping room and idiots simply take the opportunity to jump in, often without signalling. And, then when traffic is heavy you inevitably find yourself bunching up more than you want to stop that 'jumping in' and going backwards (sic) and then causing impatience and under-cutting from behind. But the best thing I found to save fuel in the 370 on the motorway was having the UPREV - improved consumption by 2-3 mpg under the same driving conditions so that 30+ is achievable at the usual speeds, as well as delivering more power...... Before the UPREV it was a bit frustrating I could not get near 30mpg unless I kept under............(censored). Er: I used to do 2000 miles a month in my zeds, mostly motorway miles and never reset my trip computer ever, and never got over 24mpg...........I don't think I drove them particulary hard either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumping350 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 mines an import have no idea what its measured in.. m/kllmc or something and never bothered to find out so dont know but it doesnt seem to bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris`I Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I'm always shocked at these Eco petrols. Never return that much MPG unless you have a really small engine. Our 370z does somewhere around 30MPG on normal longer journeys (bit of m-way and A-roads) and drops to about 25MPG when doing more town driving. The Alfa (2l JTDm2) does about 45MPG on our commute into reading and 50MPG+ across France with bikes on the back. No way you can compare a petrol to a Diesel really, soot chuckers win by a mile, however the Zed is very economical for its size compared to other petrol cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisS Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 During a quiet 4 day tootal around N Wales in May mine said 26.7 mpg. And I'd only had that new noisey shiney thingy underneath put on the day before. Syncrooooooooo Revvvvvvvvv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebized Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 During a quiet 4 day tootal around N Wales in May mine said 26.7 mpg. And I'd only had that new noisey shiney thingy underneath put on the day before. Syncrooooooooo Revvvvvvvvv Its a bugger ain't it - I'm sure I've doubled my gear changes since I've had the 370 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yupp Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 On the drive home from picking mine up I got 32mpg, that's the only proper motorway journey I've done so far and now I've got it home I'm getting 23/28mpg on dual carriageways and A roads. I don't drive her hard as she scares the crap out of me and I the fact I look 12 years old just waiting for those blue lights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posidrive Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I have had 450 ish miles from a tank more than once in the Zed. I find that the yellow light tends to come on around the 400 mile mark although for a one of experiment to see how much I could force out of tankful I hit 540 miles before the yellow light appeared. Don't plan on doing that again though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I have had 450 ish miles from a tank more than once in the Zed. I find that the yellow light tends to come on around the 400 mile mark although for a one of experiment to see how much I could force out of tankful I hit 540 miles before the yellow light appeared. Don't plan on doing that again though Well the light just came on at 450. Drove from Wales to Aberdeen. The yellow light came on a few miles from the house. I can't remember the MPG but it will have been quite high so there will have been plenty left in the tank. On another note, I've also seen around 8mpg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate1988 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I drive my Z everyday, roughly 50 - 100 miles a day on all different roads. Had the Z a few months now and reset the trip at the start, since then the average MPG is 29.2 Better than my previous Z3 (2.8) and nearly as good as my TT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricey Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Nate you need to sort that avatar out its hurting my brain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy78 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 There must be something wrong with my car, because it's never been near 30mpg! I do stand up when I wee though, so that could explain it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeroy Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was impressed with my SC'd Zed at the weekend. I drove from my house to Newquay (370 miles) on one tank of petrol!! I never normally get more than 300 on a tank. I was being very gentle on the throttle (as it was wet most of the journey) but wasn't hanging about once up to speed, still done it in 5.5 hours. Only problem being I was on fumes when I got there and then had to drive another 10miles out of newquay to find some Super! Newquay is rubbish for super..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris`I Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 On another note, I've also seen around 8mpg. Lowest proper average I've had was at a airfield day. 16MPG average, and thats over a full tank, driving too and from North Weald from Basingstoke which involved rather a lot of motorway and major A road driving which was very light on the throttle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasSoerensen Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 34mpg driving round Europe and that was with a very spirited say with Thomas Sorensen WTF dude. We were stuck in a traffic jam - so later I had to make up for it in order to keep an acceptable average speed. We have average speed cameras here , you know. So you cannot let the average speed slip just because you are stuck at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 Didn't notice till yesterday it was an Insignia SRI not that it made me love it anymore.... I didn't intend this thread to be a 'look at me I can get (insert figure) mpg' thread as there are plenty of those My point is I drive whatever car I am in the same way pretty much, I have driven from London to Newcastle in 4 different cars each journey in roughly 4.5 hours with 1 or 2 short stops.... Mazda 6 2.3l - 33mpg Seat Leon TDI FR - 52mpg Insingia SRI - 34.5 mpg Zed - 33 mpg So on a nice long trip doing motorway speeds with the V6 purring it is not that uneconomical Driving it like you stole it or around town in traffic is another matter altogether Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marks350z Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Hi, I drove from Devon to near sheffield in a Honda Civic iCdti to collect my 350z. Both ways were done at apx the same speed. The Honda averaged 46mpg & the 350 averaged 34.6mpg. The 350 IMO is pretty economical if driven smoothly. A great car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasso Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 The best I've ever achieved was..... That was following Chris'I back from the lake district to Birmingham. Managed to do it on quarter of a tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffyjason Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 100mph on the new A1 section near Leeming, managed 30mpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 100mph on the new A1 section near Leeming, managed 30mpg Funny, I didn't see Leeming on this.... http://www.autobahn-online.de/a1.html I assume it was the Autobahn A1 for you to be travelling at almost 50% over the highest UK speed limit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffyjason Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 yes that's it, must have been an autobhan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 What distance was that over? I can't see a Zed getting 30 mpg average over a long stretch at 100 mph. Did you reset the trip before hand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The G Man Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 I've had hundreds of hire cars over the years, ranging from Nissan Micra's to to the best "ecoshiftdiesel's", and all have dissapointed in fuel consumption. The worst ever has to be Kia! Had one of these and had to get a "slipstream" from an arctic to barely get 300 miles out the tank!! I haven't ever had to pay for fuel as most were business use, so I suppose I didn't drive in an economical style. The 70 on the other hand, for a relatively heavy 3.7 NA car is superb on consumption, most of my miles these days are commute and some leisure. Very rarely get under 400 to the tank and even then it only takes around 67 or so ltr to top back up to full. Have to agree that the UpRev makes a difference, both to economy and enjoyment. My Mrs Leon FR is not bad on consumption but rarely reaches 50mpg except on longer journeys. I find that filling the tank right up everytime and running till empty or yellow light on is a better way to judge consumption than relying on the "trip computer" and/or just throwing in £20 or £30 every now and again. Also have to agree that the last thing on my list of requirements when I was looking at cars to replace my RX8 was fuel consumption!! Have a look on their OC at fuel consumption threads, most are now suicidal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 The 70 on the other hand, for a relatively heavy 3.7 NA car is superb on consumption, most of my miles these days are commute and some leisure. Very rarely get under 400 to the tank and even then it only takes around 67 or so ltr to top back up to full. So 26mpg then? Not bad, sounds pretty average to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The G Man Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 .........not for a 3.7 my friend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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