Fuel cost

[Devil\'s Refugee]

Trying to work out which is best; get the car trailered up or fly down and pick it up.

I\'m in Edinburgh, the car will be at RE:Worx getting mapped.
Approx. 450mls to drive, so given 95p odd for V-Power, average say £65 a tank, and with a car at around 300 brake, how many refuels will I need ?

Prob stick to the speed limit and it\'s all motorway driving.

Factor in I\'ll have a passenger to share the trip with, that\'s two tickets on SleazyJet at £100 a pop, train to Portsmouth, say £10 a pop from Gatwick.....

Getting it trailered and saving 450mls on the clock is looking more attractive by the minute !

[Fish]

Well think about the running in/testing of mods that will be done on the way back.

Fish

[andysmee]

Mine runs 280rwhp and I commute on the M4 every day. I average between 15 and 16 mpg max.

That\'s £124.29 in my car or two tankfuls

[Devil\'s Refugee]

Fish, that was the main attraction for driving it back

Andy, how many miles is that then ?
210 odd ?

[DC-TYPER]

You Should Get 150 Miles A Tank

[Devil\'s Refugee]

You have to be sh*tting me, I drive that every day at the moment :eek

For Sale: one unused RX7......

[kermit]

If you take it VERY easy you should get more mile to the tank.  The best I ever saw was 280 miles from the tank, but believe me that was a whole tank!!!!

[Devil\'s Refugee]

It\'s mostly motorway driving, considering the costs (and I\'m sure I read somewhere that keeping it off boost at under 70mph will help) I\'ll be crawling to work and back now.

Need to get another job closer to home sooner than I thought.... :yes

[Red and Single]

You Should Get 150 Miles A Tank

You should get a LOT more than that if its steady motorway driving, more like 230 - 250 odd.

I get 170 odd regularly, but thats a mix of traffic or fun, no economical stuff.

[Devil\'s Refugee]

Ok, car not for sale now :rollin

[Red and Single]

I gotta say you must be on one hell of an income to even consider 150 miles a day in an FD :2eek

thats £200 a week in fuel easy....

[Devil\'s Refugee]

I\'m a pimp

Wouldn\'t like to admit how much I get mate, for what I do it\'s shocking compared to more worthwhile professions like nursing :o

Partially why I want to leave the UK, the way people are paid according to their skills is all wrong.

[Mobilemick]

Join the AA RAC, now,  and get em to tow it back

[andysmee]

What you get from a tank depends on when you decide to fill it up. I don\'t like to risk waiting for lights to come on as I don\'t have a choice of filling station once I\'m on the motorway so I tend to fill up slightly early rather than run the crud in the bottom of the tank through the engine.

So far I have had 226, 210, and 198.7 miles from a tank of fuel...all since buying the car a week last tuesday!!! A tank lasts me between two and three days.

[Devil\'s Refugee]

That kind of mileage I can live with. Again, won\'t be doing the commute forever so I can live with the cost for a few months knowing it will come down, as well as the mileage (it\'s only done 23k mls so want to preserve the lower end of the miles for as long as possible for value purposes)