Guys if i was to drive 400 miles in a 1.6 16v stilo active mostly On the motorway sticking to speed limits how much do you think the petrol would cost. Planning to go to Alton Towers Saturday this week and its 200 miles each way

Feeling lazy are we? If you know you're MPG it wouldn't take much to work it out for yourself.

thepottleflump said:

Feeling lazy are we? If you know you're MPG it wouldn't take much to work it out for yourself.

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Had the car less than a week Other wise i would And have no idea how many miles to a gallon i would get yet.

swansea2007 said:

Had the car less than a week Other wise i would And have no idea how many miles to a gallon i would get yet.

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Well then in that case if you dont know what your mpg is how is anyone else supposed to tell you how much it will cost? Your car could drink like a fish for all we know

bandido41 said:

Well then in that case if you dont know what your mpg is how is anyone else supposed to tell you how much it will cost? Your car could drink like a fish for all we know

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LOL it may do but im guessing some one else on the FIAT forum has the same car as me and the average MPG should be the same

swansea2007 said:

LOL it may do but im guessing some one else on the FIAT forum has the same car as me and the average MPG should be the same

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Not necessarily all cars are different but seeing as you are going on 400 mile round trip, now would be a good time to work out your mpg, if you fill up your tank when you leave it "should" be enough to do the 400 mile trip.

According to Parkers you should get 38 MPG. A gallon is 4.5 litres, thus c. 8.4 miles per litre, for 400 miles you will need approx 48 litres, which at around £1.07 a litre will cost you around £51 Easy peasy

I suspect that 38MPG is the extra urban figure - if you drive at more than 60mph, it'll cost you more - I'd budget on £55-60

vickster
you get more on motorway dont you?

theres the morway to get there, but then around there is quite a lot of hills which you need to boot it up (even in a JTD i was down changing and thrashing it 4 up)

so budget for at least what a full tank of fuel might be

i used about 1/5 to go 200 miles or so (100 miles each way) :devil:

Thanks gusy had to work it out as im going with a couple of mates and splitting the petrol cost

Daz_Rich said:

vickster
you get more on motorway dont you?

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Nope, not compared to driving at 56 in fifth which is the most economical; yes certainly compared to town driving...I'm getting around 20mpg in the SLK

fill up to the top before you leave.
at the end fill up again and you know what fuel you used to split
or each end depending on useage

I think ours would do that in ~£45 of fuel at ~75mph steady.

If you can get MPG above 40 on a push you could possibly do it on £40's worth

to do it on £40's worth @ £1/litre it would have to do 45mpg,


and TBH middle sized engines IME are never great at economy, 38mpg is prob printe dcombined figure.

if you drive it sensibly (e.g smooth throttle control, not dropping gears etc) @ a steady enough 65-75mph you SHOULD get 42-45mpg..

but at todays petrol prices its gonna cost you least £50, so a whole tank basically

wasn't 4yrs ago when I could fill my little punto up and get change enough out of £30, well enough to buy 2x bottles of drink + 2-4 choco bars, and still see something back (ok maybe 8p).

now it costs me over £50 and I get no snack food

Average driving in my 1.1 Auto Petrol works out at 13p per mile, not that its probably much help for your Stilo.

Went to petrol station put in £30 quid just under half a tank. And my clock shows i can do 155 miles but i been driving to work not gone on motorways or anything but alton towers is alot on the motorway so maby £60 quid will do it

best way to do it as stated before, is to fill the car up fully before, then fill it up once you get back to a petrol station near you after alton towers, then split the cost it takes to fill that tankful

actually the best way to do it is to syphon petrol from neighbours' cars.

any idea what pipe i can use :devil:

jug said:

actually the best way to do it is to syphon petrol from neighbours' cars.

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All my neighbours have anti-syphon tanks .