Fuel Costs

[Vear]

have you ever had to get rid of a car becuase it drank too much? i dont like the twenty odd pounds a week i have to pay on my saxo and i can imagine it will only get more expensive (more global demand, me eventually getting a faster car) so what kind of mpg do you guys get? (i understand someone here has a V8 i bet that drinks lol)

[HDi fun]

They are all expensive to run - Government treasury sees to that. Fuel is not the biggest cost anyway. Good Ole' Rip Off Britain. Dontcha just love it
- I for one, don't.

[waynne]

My Rover cost more in repair bills than it drank in fuel and it only did 25 mpg round town! Since selling that car I've certainly felt better off financially!

[Jim]

Feul prices... maybe about a tenner to twenty a week.

TBH, you go into asda and get FOURTY bottles of carlsberg for £20. Go into A&E thurs, fri and sat there is many people in for drinking related stupidity. Go to Asda again and it will cost you about one quid for just ONE litre of petrol.

mmmh... and drivers are public enemy #1.....

/rant

[fingers]

I run a V8, and to be honest its not as bad as I expected. If I drive sensibly I can get around 25mpg from the beast. I thnk thats quite impressive from a 37 year old 5433cc car. Our 1989 Toyota SpaceCruiser does less mpg, that only returns 18, and thats on a good day.

[wizzer]

It really does depend on how you drive it. Short journeys round town are a real fuel drinker! My MPG halves round town!

[aswearing]

my car was good, 36 mpg i do believe.

(it was a very small engine :P )

[StevieDB9]

i was quite surprised just how much of a difference city/town driving makes, i usually get around 250 to 300 miles from a tank, but recently me and 4 of ma mates went a trip to alton towers in the little polo and i got 440 miles give or take out of one tank, was well pleased.

[waynne]

What did you think of Alton Towers? (Sidetracking this thread completely!)

[StevieDB9]

aye, alton towers is good, been before