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that's very good figures I had 38.5 mpg today work and back 25 miles
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Its perfectly possible to do thousands of miles and the piston-rings never get bedded in, the bores are not honed. Running in is becoming difficult when todays synthetic oils are so good. Run-in on mineral oil and then switch to synthetic and you find performance, and also the mpg, vastly improved.
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The twinair is capable of the figures they quote in the stats. I once did a 50 mile trip averaging 72mpg in my old 500TA. Was fun trying to see what I could do but the style of driving was no fun at all! You can get economy at the expense of fun. I always chose fun and I imagine that will continue when I pick up my panda in a few weeks.
My little Panda is now averaging 50mpg, 3000 miles on. And that is driving without the Eco mode on 
Get a Fuelly account to keep track of exact mpg. It works very well.
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I presume you're driving a TA, javnas?
With the 1.2 litre, I'm averaging about 42-43MPG, although most recent driving have been around town so my average is dipping. Long road trip up to Scotland next month, so will be interested to see what that returns.
And a similar vote of praise for Fuelly; it's easy to use and very handy.
With the 1.2 litre, I'm averaging about 42-43MPG, although most recent driving have been around town so my average is dipping. Long road trip up to Scotland next month, so will be interested to see what that returns.
And a similar vote of praise for Fuelly; it's easy to use and very handy.
What would be really great is if FIAT loaned a TA to our resident eco-driver jrkitching for a month to see what figures he can achieve!
I presume you're driving a TA, javnas?
With the 1.2 litre, I'm averaging about 42-43MPG, although most recent driving have been around town so my average is dipping. Long road trip up to Scotland next month, so will be interested to see what that returns.
And a similar vote of praise for Fuelly; it's easy to use and very handy.
Am sure you will see better figures when you go away; doing lots of driving in town plus all the cold weather we've had for the past month won't have helped.
But it just goes to show how good the 1.2 is for economy; i.e. 42mpg isn't bad at all for the journeys you've described!
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My 1.2 is doing 39.4mpg around town driving with 4800 on the clock.
Not bad at all...
Not bad at all...
When I had my 1.2 500 and we drove from Worksop to Bournemouth, my wife got the average readout to be over 60mpg on the motorway. Our average with mixed driving but mostly town, was always around 50mpg. Cracking little engine. If I went back from my Abarth I'd have the 1.2 again.
One trip proves absolutely nothing.
If someone puts their car on Fuelly & averages 67.3mpg or better over 10,000 miles, I'll believe it's possible.
Until then, I remain unconvinced. Nothing I've seen so far suggests the TA is any more economical than the 1.2, driven like-for-like.
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I agree with you jrkitching. I suppose my point is that I could have kept driving it like that consistently and I would have kept on getting 60+ over a long period of time. I just think you'd die of boredom trying. I'm going back to the TA for the fun not the savings.
Most folks who test drive the 1.2 & the TA back-to-back end up buying a TA
.TA fuel economy is still good, given the performance - it's just some people might think from the official figures that it'll save them fuel over buying a 1.2, which it probably won't. The potentially misleading bit comes when folks test drive a TA to the limit & order one thinking they're going to see 60+mpg using it the same way.
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