As promised in a previous post, here is an update of Elsie's MPG. As the title says, she's a twin-air.
The MPG has been steadily improving as I've put some miles on her. She's now done 2300 miles. Last tankful was mixed long motorway run, followed by two stop/start runs through Birmingham and a long motorway run most of the way home until I had to fill up. The 'Actual MPG' display showed 49 mpg exactly and my brim to brim calculations showed 48 mpg. Not unreasonable, but not wonderful. Adequate.
This is much of an improvement over the 37 mpg shown initially and it has been getting better, to be fair. I would love to average 50 mpg in general day to day driving. I'm not sure that is reasonably possible, but we shall see.
And I think, if you were terribly careful, drove like your grandad and had nerves of steel where the fuel gauge was concerned, it would be possible to get 500 miles from a tankful.
Useful tips for economy? Well, setting the cruise control at 70 rather than 75 on the motorway did make a significant difference in economy, not surprisingly, I suppose. Also I bunged her in to ECO to drive around town (I mean proper town stuff, stop/start, not b-roads or any sort of continuous run) and it seemed to make a difference on the 'Instant MPG' reading and you could definitely feel the reduction in power and ability to rev so maybe there is something in it?
These consumption figures are records of me driving the car relatively normally, not specifically styling my driving to economy runs, or tip toeing around. But also, I'm trying not to drive it like I stole it. So what you see from these figures should give a fair reflection of a low mileage twin-air's economy.
The MPG has been steadily improving as I've put some miles on her. She's now done 2300 miles. Last tankful was mixed long motorway run, followed by two stop/start runs through Birmingham and a long motorway run most of the way home until I had to fill up. The 'Actual MPG' display showed 49 mpg exactly and my brim to brim calculations showed 48 mpg. Not unreasonable, but not wonderful. Adequate.
This is much of an improvement over the 37 mpg shown initially and it has been getting better, to be fair. I would love to average 50 mpg in general day to day driving. I'm not sure that is reasonably possible, but we shall see.
And I think, if you were terribly careful, drove like your grandad and had nerves of steel where the fuel gauge was concerned, it would be possible to get 500 miles from a tankful.
Useful tips for economy? Well, setting the cruise control at 70 rather than 75 on the motorway did make a significant difference in economy, not surprisingly, I suppose. Also I bunged her in to ECO to drive around town (I mean proper town stuff, stop/start, not b-roads or any sort of continuous run) and it seemed to make a difference on the 'Instant MPG' reading and you could definitely feel the reduction in power and ability to rev so maybe there is something in it?
These consumption figures are records of me driving the car relatively normally, not specifically styling my driving to economy runs, or tip toeing around. But also, I'm trying not to drive it like I stole it. So what you see from these figures should give a fair reflection of a low mileage twin-air's economy.
