early saturday morning at 7am we set off to ipswich from cheshire in the cinq, this was going to be the furthest I have ever driven by myself!! we went to do the lap timing at the BriSCA F1 World Championship at Foxhall Stadium Ipswich.

Car ran lovely all of the 5 hour trip there, going at a nice steady safe 60-65mph about 10 miles short of Ipswich I noticed that going over the metal strips that run across the carriageway at bridges there was a "ker-ching!!" noise, so pulled into a service station to have a look, my exhaust back box had come loose at the clamp [my fault!] and had in turn slid off the rubber donut behind the fuel tank making the pipe low and touch the ground occasionally, I had to park it on a really high kerb and using my jack too to get some space underneath to sort it out, it needs a new clamp really as the one I had used was slightly oversize and rusty which doesnt help.

Anyway, we set off home after the event at 10pm and again car ran like a dream all the way, 60-65mph and the temp never budged over 80 and we got back home at 3am we had a tot up and worked out that we used approx £35 of fuel to do 480 miles, pretty good going that!!

anyway, thats what I did at weekend!!

Cinq,s you gotta love em.
I do 450 miles a week in mine on 35 quid.

Monday morn drove 230 miles down from South Lincs to Bridgend... 4 hours... apart from the anoying vibe problem went well.. mpg.. I dont think has been that great, but need to check it... Return trip on Fri....

My cars quite regularly do those kind of mileages in a day. Most recent trip to central London and back in Blue 2. Fuel consumption was pretty dreadful, but then, it was 4 up, rather fast (at least, when not stuck in traffic -- of the two obvious ways in and out, both werer closed) and is a 1242. From Liverpool to Oxford services via Kensington -- say 260 miles, on a tank. I recon to get another 40 - 50 miles out of a 1108.

my longest trip was chamonix, to coventry in one go, only stopped for the 1 hour ferry trip took more than one tank of fuel though

What's that in actual volume terms though? You'll be looking at 75 to 91mpg from fuel prices around me.

why do these threads get posted? 'i did a 500 mile trip in car etc'

does the majority of owners have a fear these cars will not cope or explode if they venture out of town?

my sei would eat 500+ mile trip on regular basis but i didnt do a song and dance about it, its a car at end of day, its designed for travelling long distances

AppleSei said:

why do these threads get posted? 'i did a 500 mile trip in car etc'

does the majority of owners have a fear these cars will not cope with a 500 mile trip?

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lol i supose your right mate, people must truly believe these cars cant do more than a couple of hundred miles lol

I have often been surprised at the number of people who think a drive of more than 10 or 20 miles is a long way.

I was brought up near the Welsh border, and several times a year the family drove down to London for the weekend - long before the motorways.

Claudie

Let's face it, the Cento is as capable of mile crunching as anything else and like anything else it just needs a decent service history, a heavy right foot, an MP3 player and -- preferably -- a pair of Recaros.

fingers99 said:

Let's face it, the Cento is as capable of mile crunching as anything else and like anything else it just needs a decent service history, a heavy right foot, an MP3 player and -- preferably -- a pair of Recaros.

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Deffo no long journeys sat in monaco's very little padding

hmm shuoldn't the 1242 get more mpg, less rev needed to sit at 70 compared to the 1108.

Ming

Same revs (think about it -- the connection is mechanical). And anyone who thinks I sit at anything like 70 (conditions allowing) is living on Fantasy Island!

Not quite sure why the 1242cc engines seem more economical than the 1108cc. At a quick stab the 1242 makes more efficient use of the fuel at lower rpm so for the same speed you need a touch less fuel.

I find that mine uses more fuel (but this may be simply that it's driven a little more enthusiastically): I guess in theory, lighter throttle openings = lower fuel consumption. Still 44mpg isn't bad.......... especially compared to 25mpg from a tub! In a NA 1108 I'd expect to reach Birmingham before regassing, so, maybe, 48/50mpg.

Frightening to think how much, even with parking, congestion charge and M6 toll taken into account, it would cost to take 4 adults by train to London and back!

When I first did my P75 conversion to my first Sei I was getting high 40s dipping into low 50s. I'm getting about the same as that on my new 1.1 Sei with similar modifications but on 175/50R13 tyres rather than 195/45R15 tyres.