How much do you get for £35

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BeemerMad

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I usually put £35 diesel in my car giving me back around 250-270 miles in 7 seven days. This is a 50 mile round trip on a motorway. no stop starts no hold ups etc. Anyone have a similar commute and could let me know what they get from their 3.0si's?

I am not a slow coach in driving but i'm no Audi driver either!
 
In the Clio I'd get around 250-300 miles for that. In the zed, I'd get 120 miles :evil:

If you have a 2nd car, use it for the commute and keep the zed for weekends, where you don't have commuting traffic and can drive it properly 8)
 
Holy crap lol! Hmmm i need the Z for everyday use. No traffic on my commute so hopefully will get a little higher then that. Plus i wont have to fuel the forever thirsty motorbike beast lol.
 
with petrol prices up and down, you can't really say how much £35 gets you, you need to ask how many miles will so and so litres get you.

for a guide, i stuck 50 quid in mine a couple days back (137.9 p/l) and it said i had 230miles worth of fuel onboard.

i've done 50 miles and it now says i have 188 miles left.
 
There are some leaden feet on this forum.

Quadracer got 9mpg at Silverstone (or Cadwell Park). :driving:

Just put £55 in mine and range is showing as 370 miles, will probably get 300 before I need to fill with another £55.
So, £35 gets me about 230 miles (ish) but I'm not a thrasher all the time as mine is a daily drive in commuter traffic.

Anyway it's depreciation that's the biggest motoring cost and there's been some chat here among the E89 owners about that.
Fuel economy differentials pale into insignificance compared to that

What you can't measure is just how much nicer the zed will be to drive.
It makes no sense on any practical level to own one but this is the first car ever that I've still got after 18 months, have absolutely no intention of ever getting rid of and that still makes me smile every day :D
 
For comfort - I don't use my zed for daily use. I did use it daily in 2011, and maybe managed 180 miles from £35
 
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Yea....30 mpg on a nice 50 mile commute would be easily achievable...

£35 = 180miles...
 
Z4M-2006 said:
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Yea....30 mpg on a nice 50 mile commute would be easily achievable...

£35 = 180miles...
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At least, driving intelligently. I was commuting in mine a few months ago ... Regular 60 mile round trip. A roads, a couple of slow villages with traffic and week on week the computer averaged 34. I found it amazing for what it is. Fair enough that was gentle acceleration etc. Now driving my daily instead which is no better :shock:

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Well, I've had the Z for 1.1 years, in which I have done 7,529 miles at an average 23.03 MPG. The last time I filled up (4th Feb), I paid £1.43 per litre for Shell V-Power.

So that works out at 28.71p per mile, or 121.9 miles for £35.
 
160 miles, based on my "Mileage" Android app average of £0.22/mile. That's on the back of a cold winter spent doing medium length journeys (~100 miles round trip; mostly motorway and dual carriageways) with a fairly heavy right foot.
 
I was concerned about mpg when I bought mine but know after three mths I don't give a dam about the cost. Can't put a price on driving pleasure like the zed gives me. :cpilot:
 
Mines averaged 28.1mpg since the day i bought it,or so the computer says...

I do really bad commuter traffic in it twice a day for 7 miles too....

I think the 3.0si is amazingly frugal for what it is,driven sensibly it can see over 40 mpg on the motorway.
 
To put it another way, I reckon to do 250 miles would cost you somewhere between 45 and 50 quid.
 
I recently did a work trip from Derby to Brighton and back.

Driving down doing a steady 70mph all the way (I was in no rush and had my boss in the car with me), I averaged 42mpg. I then spent 15-20 minutes driving through brighton at rush hour, it dropped to 41mpg.

THen had a drive to Littlehampton on the coastal road, still kept above 41mpg.

Driving back up North, the MPG dropped below 40 (39.7) until I reached the M25, then at 70mph again it climbed to 41.5mpg when I got back to Derby. At this point I had done 410 miles, red light was on but computer was showing 65 miles until empty. I filled up at the same station I had used the day before. MPG calculated from receipt was 41.7mpg, so only 0.2 more than the trip computer.

I was very pleased with this. And on that basis @ 1.359 pence per litre (at the time) £35 could have got me 236 miles.

Normal driving however is not this good, my average is 35-36mpg depending on Derby traffic.

Still great for the car, but unfortunately as I will soon be doing 330 miles a week by beloved coupe will probably be replaced with an eco wagon.
 
Over the last 2 years or so , a fill up of 50 litres every time (70 quid at the moment) gets me 290 miles - 310 miles mixture of motorway and town.
 
It can be achievable then! Obviously a little less then my car. But then i wont have to fuel my bike either. Think im going to try find some where for a test drive
 
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