Clearly the gas mileage wasn't my main concern when I bought the car, but I was just surprised to see it be so terrible. Again, we're getting 15 mpg in our Range Rover around town and 19/20 on the highway (we just took it up to Maine and got 21.1 average for 6 hours! Not bad for that car).

I have to admit, albeit a bit hypocritical, it’s hard to justify going to the gas station and paying $4.90 (which is what we're averaging in our area of Connecticut... Fairfield County) only to get 13 mpg. I know I'm preaching to the quire here, but I can literally run a few errands for about 30 minutes and see a drop in the gas needle.

As you can see from my signature here, cars have been quite an obsession of mine. However, I’m starting to feel a bit guilty not being more “green”… maybe I’ll just keep the obsession and focus on something easier like recycling more plastic bags and aluminum cans!

The fuel consumption will improve as the engine breaks in. Give it about 10000mi.

highway-12-13L/100km
city-15-16L/100km

Just to help add some stats to this thread, I'm getting 8.3l/100km on the highway, and around 13.5km/100km city only. But it's a 3.0sd (Diesel - E70 2008 model, with 7500km)

Can someone convert Dave's mileage on the diesel to U.S. gallons? U.S.
MPG...

Thanks,

Craig

I dont thing i EVER got better then 17mpg in our RR. City driving was always in the 10mpg range... Our 07 v6 get around 14-16mpg in the city

Highway: 8.3 l/100 km = 34.2 mpg Imperial = 28.5 mpg US
City: 13.5 l/100 km = 21 mpg Imperial = 17.5 mpg US

Dave's city mileage is half a mpg better than my 2003 E53 3.0 in the city (14 l/100 km) The highway mileage is more of a difference, it is 5 mpg better than my vehicle was (10 l/100 km). Mine wasn't a valvetronic, but it wasn't as heavy as an E70.

For reference, 100 km/xxx litres * 4.54 / 1.6 = imperial MPG; *5 / 6 for US MPG

Cheers

Jeff

Thanks Jeff!

Craig

I get 12-14 on my 4.4i ,and thats doing both city driving and highway ...I dont think thats too bad ....:popcorn:

interestingly, ive noticed the american lot seem to have the bigger engines in general, when compared to the european lots..