I know what you guys all mean about the price of petrol,
I have a 2.4 Abarth Manual and it's raping my wallet every time I go to the pump to fill up, my average trip to work is 23 miles each way along the M6 and I am going though about 50 quid a week, until I saw the light,
to quote "wotnowarninglight"
So no more 'Driving Like You Stole It' more a case of 'Drive it like your grandparents would, if they borrowed it'
I have managed to reduce it by slowing down my acceleration and keeping it within 1500rev's when accelerating and I don’t seem to annoy anyone and the car's uptake isn't so slow, and then sitting in rush hour with the lorries at 56mph and im getting a whopping 46mpg. I dont quite understand how the hell the car is doing it but it is, I am not only filling up 25 quid a week.
So all I can suggest to peeps with the 2.4 is as "wotnowwarninglight" suggests "Drive it like your grandparents would, if they borrowed it".
I am also very envious of my mum, she went out and got a Grande Punto the other week with lots of extra thrown in for 7500, including air con, alloys, mp3, blue me, and windows media centre, metallic paint, sports kit and stripe package and she get's an amazing 60mpg. I wish I could get that then again you can't really compare the 2 cars I suppose but still.
The only way to offset the cost of the road tax looks to be by getting more MPG’s
If anyone has any tips on getting more MPG out of the Stilo Abarth let me know, I’ve just taken on an 800 quid a month mortgage and the recession is killing me and I've still got 4k to pay off on my gorgeous car lol.