Better MPG.

[MikeSwift]

Well that was an improvement in M.P.G. on my first long trip for a while.

Last Wednesday I decided on a trip to the R.A.F. Cosford museum.

I tried to set the SatNav to use the M1 and M6 Toll, a total disaster, fine until I was told to leave the M6 Toll too early and wandered around and taking 4 hours to get there, should have been two and a half.

The return journey was better as I set the M6 Toll as a destination and after arriving the M1 as the next, once there it was known territory.

I reordered a trip mileage of 41.1 mpg, helped in part by a long time at slow speed due to a jam caused by a lorry breakdown and numerous 50 mpg speed limits due to road works, not that anyone was actually working.

One thing I noticed that I hadn’t seen before the recent upgrade was that driving through an average speed camera zone my average speed was shown on the map by the speed limit, very useful.

[italianjob1970]

"I tried to set the SatNav to use the M1 and M6 Toll, a total disaster, fine until I was told to leave the M6 Toll too early and wandered around and taking 4 hours to get there, should have been two and a half."

That's why I use Google Maps.

[Al94]

Living in Ireland, a 400 mile trip around Co Donegal last week averaged 48.8 mpg - well pleased!

[Chonkust]

I have 2021 (70reg,) so far driven 1000 miles and average mpg is 39.9. Living in a small town in Somerset and commuting largely across towns. Driving on a motorway speed limits usually gets me 45mpg.

[Indalo1]

average mpg is 39.9.

Welcome to the forum, ‘Chonkust’.

Whenever anyone invites mpg figures from members in any car forum, it is an open invitation to all the blowhards and bullshiners to publish their ‘average’ mpg figures which they claim to be genuine and mathematically correct.......well, that’s what they would like you to believe!

In truth, many contributors don’t understand what is meant by average and erroneously take some rarely achieved number from the instrument console as their ‘average’ mpg. For what it’s worth, I think the numbers quoted on this page are entirely believable but each contributor has a different driving profile, flat, hilly; lots of A roads & motorways....or not. Others don’t drive exactly the same route as you and vice versa.

Two things I have learned from using the internet:

1) If something seems too good to be true, then it is very probably exactly that!

2) 'You can’t believe everything you read on the internet!’........Abraham Lincoln.