traffic lights grand prix
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Attleborough, Norfolk
Recently during lockdown doing some ridiculous short journeys and cold starts only 32mpg but that’s not a normal scenario for me as all of my current but essential travel is between 1 and 7 miles. I can’t walk these short trips as I have a dodgy leg :thumbsdown: I hate using it this way but needs must. I won’t use public transport at this time either.
Pre lockdown day to day / normal driving 38mpg is quite normal and on a run from home down to Portsmouth and onto Toulouse in France 50mpg plus
On a trip to Hanover at Autobahn speed (some at 140mph but most between 80 and 100mph) we got an indicated overall door to door 45mpg - this also included a week of tootling about to and fro when in Germany in both town and country.
Mine is fully specced with adaptive suspension and big M Sport brakes so it’s not bad on the twisty bits and it will easily embarrass a lot of cars.
As we live at the bottom side of a decent incline, the AWD system and a set of winter tyres makes it a very good all rounder - I don’t know of another car that can do 155mph or get 50mpg if needs be and do sub 5sec to 60mph?
If the roof fell in tomorrow my 35is would be the first to go (and I love my 35is )
To summarise,. You can say fuel consumption in the real world is between 40 and 50mpg
Pre lockdown day to day / normal driving 38mpg is quite normal and on a run from home down to Portsmouth and onto Toulouse in France 50mpg plus
On a trip to Hanover at Autobahn speed (some at 140mph but most between 80 and 100mph) we got an indicated overall door to door 45mpg - this also included a week of tootling about to and fro when in Germany in both town and country.
Mine is fully specced with adaptive suspension and big M Sport brakes so it’s not bad on the twisty bits and it will easily embarrass a lot of cars.
As we live at the bottom side of a decent incline, the AWD system and a set of winter tyres makes it a very good all rounder - I don’t know of another car that can do 155mph or get 50mpg if needs be and do sub 5sec to 60mph?
If the roof fell in tomorrow my 35is would be the first to go (and I love my 35is )
To summarise,. You can say fuel consumption in the real world is between 40 and 50mpg
that was always my problem with my zed, could never get my supervisor/carer/Obergruppenführer into thr car as as soon as the engine started i turned into a teenager 
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:evil: :wink: :lol:road warrior said:that was always my problem with my zed, could never get my supervisor/carer/Obergruppenführer into thr car as as soon as the engine started i turned into a teenager
I know the feeling- unfortunately it only effects the space between the ears!
ronk said:
I got mine because it was a ludicrously cheap deal and you don't get a non-X version.
Actually it very rarely drives much more than the rear wheels unless you're being a nutter, or the road is slippy.
I did enter a roundabout a bit quick a couple of times, but by the time I noted the loss of traction the car had got it in hand. I could actually feel the balance change as it roped in a couple more tyres to help the idiot!
I now have a 120d touring with X-drive. That is mostly FWD and the backs join in as required. I am not yet convinced that this way round is worth the complexity, especially with substantially less torque than the old 335d had. Again, it was a cheap deal so I grabbed it quick.
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mgrlane said:ronk said:
150 of those miles were at 70mph on a run.
Excellent
