LCR - Absolutely shocking fuel economy!

[speedsix]

Over 80miles of motorway, a-road and twisties

I am absolutely disgusted with myself. If I tucked my bits even further between my legs I reckon I could hit 40mpg

 

[chriswilks]

are you sure you dont drive a diesel and wont just admit it!!?

 

[ZBOYD]

You put a diesel engine in it? Your really not trying hard enough

 

[stpete]

Blimey is your car only running on three?

 

[Phil K]

Thants simply shocking there must be something wrong! Have you tried driving everywhere in 3rd or 4th only? Should help you get that figure down to a more realistic 23mpg

 

[Cupraloon]

Dear o' dear.... theres a red line there for a reason you know....

 

[MarkE]

 

[Arctic]

Some one must have swapped our engines, i have had this before

 

[stpete]

What, pink dash lights?

 

[Arctic]

Crap camera on my phone, and that does say 4.3!

 

[Fast_Eddie]

deary me you didn't even let the engine warm up either-lol

 

[rllmuk]

I got 34mpg on a 180 mile trip the other day. That was doing *slightly over* 70 nearly all of the way (A14 to M1 J38), so I can believe that is possible if being very careful.

 

[ArosaRacer]

usually i average 14.4 on my way to work

 

[rllmuk]

usually i average 14.4 on my way to work

- How do you do that? I drive on B roads to work, stopping every other mile for junctions etc, often giving the full rev range a work out subsequent to the junction and still get 24-26mpg.

 

[Rikko]

Look closely at the picture the engine is off so its not using any fuel so maybe thats why im lucky if i see 23mpg at all but then these are cars made for driving not crusing in top

Rikko

Only playing thats good mate

 

[andycupra]

lol

its easy to get 39mpg. its surprising as motorway miles are not the most economical.
i would say that in my experience the computer its a tad optimistic...

 

[lofer]

It’s easy to get it to show silly figures. Just wind her up to say 100mph, take it out of gear, hit the reset button and coast!

 

[ArosaRacer]

because my daily run is 4 miles so the engine is on cold start

 

[D4N BK]

I thought i was doing well, today i managed to get it to 34mpg (highest ive ever had it) normally its 20-25
and a full tank only says 270miles (which now says 355 miles and ive already done 60miles and its still up on 355) which im chuffed with

 

[Arctic]

deary me you didn't even let the engine warm up either-lol

It was left outside my house for about an hour running to dry up rest of the water from passenger footwell after it leaked