1st Gen R53 Cooper S Most liked posts in thread: MCS gas mileage

I posted this elsewhere but: Typically with mixed highway and city (my commute) 33-34mpg.

Good highway stretches will get me 36-37.

At the track, 14mpg...

Regardless of driving condition, I am grinning the whole time.

 

What's M.P.G. ?

I drive by smile. :devil:

 

MPG = Miles Per Grin.....

 

Heck man you are doing well. I must have heavy feet.

 

MPG = justa about two tanks per every 1,000 miles.

Jim

 

I stopped checking my mileage it was always the same, 30 mpg + or - one mpg.

I have never used the onboard computer method, it takes up valuable space on my tach's digital display.

Dave

 

Are you checking with the OBC or did you use a paper & pencil? The reason I ask is the OBC is optimistic on my MINI. I swing between 26mpg & 31mpg using a pencil. I'm happy with that considering the performance & smiles my MINI gives me.

 

Very well indeed!

 

That would make me grin Jim. :yesnod:

27 MPG on this tank. I've been flogging it fairly hard & I'm grinning.

 

Poco gets about 3 1/2 weeks between fills

 

I get about 22...

Then again, much like the rest of me, my foot is heavy.

And I do so like to wind it out with the foot buried.

 

Which is about the same as the twice a week fills when I used to do 600+ miles a week

 

I have to drive really gently to get 50mpgUS out of mine and I've only got dead on 40mpgUS average (by pump and calculator, not OBC) since I bought it, since I cruise too fast for it to be economical. And it only has 225 ft-lb of torque. :blush2:

Yeah, it's an SD(iesel)

I did turn off a main road recently onto a little wiggly side road that asks for the car to be 'exercised' so I zeroed the OBC - over 15 miles I got 23mpg. Which just shows if you accelerate on the straights and brake for the bends, more engine just means you lose more energy on each bend, never mind how efficiently it accelerates.

 

^ Does your MINI have an oil burner engine aka diesel? If it does while your mileage is superb it really isn't the same as far as mileage goes. Apples & oranges. If it is a gas engine then holy cow what great mileage.

 

Gas with a blower hung on the side!

 

Yes, I agree - and yes, it is a 2.0L diesel. To be honest it isn't realistic to compare Yurpeen and Merkan fuel economy numbers - driving conditions are just so different. For example, my justa Cooper did 30.7mpgUS over my 50,000 mile ownership.

 

This weekend at the NASA summit point event i was getting 8.6 mpg according to the obc :devil:
and then 36 on the drive home :aureola: