miles per gallon

[Gazza3009]

hello peeps im gonna buy an rx7 on saturday and its 475bhp is there anyone on here who has the same with their average mpg, also mine has a boost controller so what would be the lowest bhp i could set it? cheers

[redgti]

not the thing you really need to be worring about if your buyig an rx7, Probably better to not even think about it. I would bet you\'ll struggle to get more than 15mp average out of it with All that fun on tap.

[Lil-Steve]

If you drive like a granny you might possibly see 19mpg (and you can only feed it Optimax/V-Power or whatever the hell they call it nowadays @1.20+ per litre) but you\'\'l be doing between 4-17mpg dpending on how far down the noise pedal is.
 
The 13B sings like an angel but drinks like a demon.

[MaLicE]

i would maybe think again about getting a rx7 if your worried about fuel... its one of those things, i fill up to just over 1/2 tank, then then it has 1/4 tank left i stick 20-30 quid in to bring it over half way again...

i dont think about mpg... its the last thing i worry about when i drive the rex lol!

[goldk28611]

worked it out once and came to a value of 10MPG....Made a trip to Wales and back mostly M4 at speed limit and a few lead foot moments - A blast in the mountains on my way there and back.
It\'s the last time im ever working it out! - i\'d hate to know what my 1 mile to work each day is!! ~1/4 tank every other day.


Get a shell points card and cash in on the perks!

[m1tch]

Yeah, don\'t look at the petrol pump and just fill the car up as and when needed don\'t forget that over 5psi the secondary injectors start to fire as well, think of it as if a 4 cylinder engine had 8 injectors lol and they are fairly large injetors as the FC3S OEM ones are condsidered a big upgrade if they are plumbed into an MX5.

If you are worried about MPG, get a free flowing air filter (I am guessing it has this already lol) make sure its all properly serviced and put it on cruise control if needed, its not that bad off boost, its just as soon as you boot it everything just dumps fuel in lol might also be an idea to replace the O2 sensor to give a better cruise, unless its got an aftermarket ECU (I am guessing it has) might be able to get part of it remapped for a better cruise cycle.

[SiH]

Crusie control sucks fuel m1tch - using it to save fuel is one of the daftest things I\'ve heard this week

As above, if you are worried about fuel consumption, don\'t buy an F-body. I\'ve averaged 14mpg in my ownership, but that\'s on twins.

goldk - 1 mile? FFS, walk! You\'ll save yourself a packet in both fuel costs, and life shortening carbon build up! It\'s probably not even warmed up by the time you turn it off!

[Gazza3009]

Haha I\'m not really worried about it it\'s jus my mate was making out like u could not even go down the road without using a full tank n stuff and he has a focus rs

[chrisJDM]

yeh to be fair any high performance car is gonna be pretty bad, it all depends how you drive it, im not sure how many miles it will do on a full tank on a good run, i think prob around 200 miles, if you are driving it hard will use it up pretty quick.

[SiH]

Haha I\'m not really worried about it it\'s jus my mate was making out like u could not even go down the road without using a full tank n stuff and he has a focus rs

Compared to the Focus RS, a rotary will be a whole new world of pain. Seriously, it will eb much worse.

[Pumba_GT]

Yeah, like the others said, your potential buying RX7 is 475BHP and I would certainly think that you will not use it as a daily car. So the mpg is irrelevant as long as you keep feeding fuel in when it is low but not too low.

[DR SCHNITZEL]

i get 20mpg motorway and prob 15 mpg having fun

[Hi RX7]

20 mpg is good I only got that runnining my car in after a rebuild where I drove it without going into boost, after 800 miles I got 15 still driving with care then once run in its back to very few mpg again

[Swanny_UK]

Haha I\'m not really worried about it it\'s jus my mate was making out like u could not even go down the road without using a full tank n stuff and he has a focus rs

First sign of the little green monster known as envy.  You\'ll have a gorgeous (to quote Evo magazine "Achingly Beautiful\') focussed sports car, he has a hatchback primarily designed for going to the shops and back that they\'ve spruced up a bit (ok maybe more than a bit), and is FWD (Fail Wheel Drive) - and I\'m not being harsh, I really do love the Mk1 FRS. I get about 220miles to a tank (70l) of combined driving, and about 340miles on motorway cruise.

So I\'ll no doubt see you around the Shell stations of Cheshire mate

[jackaleks]

RX-7 fact number one: they burn fuel and oil. in fact, they burn so much fuel and oil that this forum is the number one reason why the Arab Emirates haven\'t gone bust yet.
 
RX-7 fact number two: Global Warming never looked or sounded this cool, so who cares!