dutchess said:

With a Tjet on cruise control at 80mph and the odd [somewhat satisfying] overtake you will get around 42mpg. That's roughly 330 miles per tank. In stop-start, pretty spirited local driving I am getting 38mpg, which is 300 miles per tank. If the wife is away and I'm driving like a hooligan then it hovers around the 30mpg mark, so only 240 miles per tank. - I've assumed 8 gallon / 40 litre tank in those calcs. When I fill up the trip computer normally tells me I have just over 330 miles of range, and if I'm driving sensibly that goes up to almost 400 miles after half an hour or so.

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Sounds much the same as my 99 plate 1.2, im filling up on monday & going to manchester on tuesday & back, im sure that'll drain my tank but ill make sure to pay attention to my miles to see just how far i can get before the light starts coming on..... So if you see a broken down Red V reg punto on the M5/M6 feel free to throw a tank of petrol my way


Got the nagging in the back of my mind right now that it would be nice thinking of a diesel i could probably do bristol to manchester twice before filling up... what a saving! .. though, im only 25 is it really time for me to be sensible?