Mpg ?

[azzman]

I got a 2000 c280 and im gettin bout 28-34 mpg...I do alot of highway driving

[Derek Lecours]

Here we are, hiding our license plates, and your showing yours off!! Good stuff

Probably wouldn't look right in a church parking lot but a little better at a nudist beach!!

I see you've deleted your license plate ??...

[kdbcom]

Ah but his isn't a B class

[Mike Tee]

Tonight, in about 100 km of driving (in two legs, 3 h apart) in torrential rain, on the snow tires, netted 6.7 L/100 km on the BC, which is a little over 42 MPG. It seems to be very good, better than my Peugeot 405 1.9 would be in similar conditions.

[hovercrafter]

Originally Posted by Derek Lecours

Here we are, hiding our license plates, and your showing yours off!! Good stuff

Perhaps they don't have Congestion Charge camera's in New York :-)

[nest18]

Hi guys,

One real life only city driving gave me 12.5 L / 100 km, this is in the "Comfort" setting ... ok without more. I'm going to NYC soon, I can wait to see how it does on the highway.

[Mike Tee]

We did another suburban crawl today with highway driving at the end, and although consumption after start peaked at 8.2 in the urban stop/start and shop bit, the average after the drive (about 6 stops for shopping along the way) was 6.7, as in my posting above.

As I said elsewhere, this is an outstanding result, for a car on snow tires, being driven in mixed conditions, and able to achieve the official Transport Canada highway rating with ease.

I am really really pleased with this aspect of the car. Virtually all aspects, actually! Even the hard seats are getting used to my butt (or vice-versa).

[kdbcom]

Qoute MikeT

Even the hard seats are getting used to my butt (or vice-versa).

Unquote.

It's probably due to you being used to the softer suspension and seats from your French made cars, in the UK it has always been remarked that their cars are 'softer' than ours probably going back to the days when they had a lot of cobbled roads. However in the last 6 years of travelling over there (France) most of the roads I used (of all types) were better than ours. I have always prefered a harder seat/suspension combination.
In the last 2 French Renault Scenics I had the 2nd one (a newer model) seemed to to have firmer seats than the original so I think they too are firming their seats up.

[jtcb]

Originally Posted by MikeT.

The best thing to read is the "after reset" screen, but even better still is doing actual calculations yourself, when you fill the car.

The number read 7.1 right after I refilled and pressed reset.

[Mike Tee]

Today on a 141 km drive around town and the area on the (90 km/h) highway, we averaged 6.4 L/100 km (44 Imp. MPG) on the BordComputer. So even if it's 0.3 L/100 optimistic, that's pretty good for mixed driving.

Also, the lifetime L/100 km went down to 7.2 L/100.....probably 7.249999

My daughter is driving the car around our small town tonight so that's not going to help the average.