Yep - 35/36 mpg average overall is bang on.
Have you yet experienced Pandignity? This is the phenomenon whereby the bloke in the big car dawdling in front of you takes offence at the Panda now passing him and speeds up in an effort to prevent this affront. The motoring equivalent of calling his pint a woman, then spilling it.
Had it again the other day with a Rover 75 V6. Was surprised to be able to pass him uphill on a dual carriageway. Wasn't surprised to leave him for dead when bends started appearing on the now single carriageway road.
I get ~35mpg at Uni (city driving), ~40mpg at home (semi-rural driving) and I averaged an indicated 44.6mpg on a 320 mile journey (90%+ motorways) last week.
Yes, I experience Pandignity, as you call it, pretty much every time I venture onto any of the UK's delightful motorways. I don't find that it's usually people in large saloons who get annoyed (they're too busy tanking along at 100 in the outside lane to notice or care), but people in large, expensive, diesel SUVs (see: RR Sport, Audi Q7, VW Touareg, BMW X5 etc). These tend to have more aggressive owners who've spent even more on their car, but haven't realised that something which weighs 2.5 tonnes and is about as aerodynamic as a barn isn't actually very quick, even if it did cost north of £40k.
I've never found anything which can convincingly keep up with the Panda through the bends, you don't see too many Lotus' or Caterhams around haha
. Weirdly, an old bloke driving a Peugeot 2008 gave it a go the other day, the degree to which he had to slow down to take even modest bends was honestly hilarious.
