Bought a car for my daughter on e, bay good deal but it was in FALKIRK.
Got too exited with bidding to check.
Anyway gave the ole 1.6 a good thrash up the A1, A66, M whatever, did the deal and set off back. Rotherham
The gist is I get 32mpg tootling about to work, and on a belt up to Siberia no stopping (1 hr secure deal) and straight back, returned 39mpg which I thought was trooly remarkable

Not bad, but perhaps not all I'd expect from a 1.6
Mind you, I'm proper spoiled the JTD returns 53mpg on a motorway run!

One of the reasons I stretched my initial budget for the JTD was that, say the diesel gives you 50mpg, the 1.6 40mpg, that 10mpg difference means that in a years motoring of 15000 miles, you need 75 more gallons of fuel for the 1.6 or 340 litres, or £280.... then add in group 5 insurance... big savings ahoy. not to rub it in mind

Just out of curiosity, what car did you pick up?

I've got a 1.6 active sport and i've been known to hit aroun the 45-50mpg on the motorway, really depends on the road surface i've noticed, the new stuff their laying around glasgow is fantastic and really quiet. My average is around 29mpg with an average speed 16mph, you just know i work in city dontcha Wouldn't change her for the world tho, well maybe a nice alpine in dash screen and a dvd changer/ipod when i got 1500 bucks to burn if i ever have 1500 bucks to burn.

Hehe, that average speed reading sucks don't it - even on a good week it's never more than 32mph.
I guess then that 39mpg 'on a flying lap' aint bad then

Certainly is, i've taken a few trips up and down the motorway just to see if that thing actually changes

Forget about this new road taxing idea they got. Just design the roads better and put less traffic lights and things that cause congestion in our way and let us stay in 5th for more than 5secs a day and the environment would improve.

Nice Logic Moogs, but remember your paying 5p a litre more for Diesel, and the fact that at £280 saving a year its gonna take a few years to re-coup your difference in purchase price! And remember cheapest Stilo is group 4, and the Diesel costs a wee bit more for servicing.

If you do a search you'll find a break down of how long it will "typically" take your average driver to recover the difference, from an economy justification.

On a 600 mile run when my car was still tight and new i managed 49.5mpg (if memory serves correct, its posted on here somwhere anyway). That was 4 up, with luggage down to Alton Towers and almost all the way back on 1 tank of fuel.

My active sport is group 5, costs me less to insure than my fiesta 1.4i Ghia X which got traded in pretty damn quick after the test drive on the stilo

There was a whole spot on the petrol/diesel thing on top gear (i think) recently and they more or less said on the standard motoring cycle taking into account all the financial factors, your not really that much better of unless you live on a motorway and do rediculous ammounts of miles.

I get 330 ish miles on a tank of normal fuel, that is pretty much all urban driving, with little open road, so im not feeling it in my wallet at all.

Well i average 18.5 so nerner :nerner:

Ah yes, I should say that my comparison was not between a JTD stilo and another Stilo but between Stilo and another car which was group 12. Sorry, forgot that bit

Hows that a fair comparison then?

ChrisF, brim it and then run it until the fuel to go is -- and tell me how far you get?

I get anywhere from 440 - 600 depending on the drive of course.

I always brim it Costs about £40 And i usually fill it around 30 miles to go by which point i have about 310 or 320 on the trip computer. Where i live is very stop start, im barely in 4th (let alone) 5th for any time at all.

KoArAnG said:

Well i average 18.5 so nerner :nerner:

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LOL you floor it when you see a yellow light dontcha

Yep, sorry, I was referring to another 40mpg car the Daihatsu YRV turbo. Just used the 1.6 being 40mpg as a similar mileage comparison. For me it was to stretch my budget from a Japanese Turbo minicar to a bigger, more everyday useful motor.
Completely lacking in logic. Sorry dudes

But hold on a sec - The JTD would have more torque, and once chipped, flipping loads of great more fun?

Exactly that - to be honest, I don't give a toss about the cost of motoring, I bought a car to enjoy - a JTD and a 2.4 lump, oh yes...

My current hire car is a 1.0 litre Yaris - how boring, how slow - but getting high 40s mpg - woooooow - still, managed 56 mph in 2nd gear before it hit the rev limiter, even though I could read War n Peace in the time it took to get there

StiloBoy said:

Nice Logic Moogs, but remember your paying 5p a litre more for Diesel

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5p a litre more for Diesel!!?????? That sucks, when did that happen???? Here diesel is still about 8 cents chaper than the cheapest petrol (95).

So how much does it cost to fill her up????? I know i can fill my Stilo right up from compete emptiness for 45 euros. Have all the Stilo's got the same size tank???

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I've got a 1.6 active sport and i've been known to hit aroun the 45-50mpg on the motorway, really depends on the road surface i've noticed, the new stuff their laying around glasgow is fantastic and really quiet.

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Yeh that road surface is wierd, looks like a lousy gritty surface coming up, then bingo silence, wonder why they dont do it all over, Very clever those Siberia
ns

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Just out of curiosity, what car did you pick up?

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Ren Clio for 17 year old daughter S reg full service history alloys cd player 40000 miles a grand

Squeezed £45 into my Stilo 1.2 once! It was baw hair empty though! Not be doing that in a hurry again.

See the Stilo is a good car, but even in the 1.2 you've got to go above licence loosing speeds to have any fun..... which is why i've got my Mini Cooper, 60mph down a back road makes you feel like a rally hero.

I planned on keeping my car roughly 5 or 6 years all in, with my average 15000 miles a year, its still way cheaper for me to own the 1.2 that if i'd bought a JTD. Seeing as i got my 1.2 £7200 all in, and i would have had to order a JTD at the time, and what £12k+ No contest really.

As for torque, the 1.2 has sufficient torque to pull it along at 60mph in 6th gear and get 40+mpg. At 70mph its under 3000rpm, so its quiet, but its also got enough oomph to speed up to pass where necessary..... and for fun its nice to drop down to common-ole 5th gear! I'll not be winning any races, but then i guess it means i'll hang onto my points free licence that bit easier..... Plus with the pennies i've saved i can consider my CBT and Direct Access and buy a decent bike.....