Excellent MPG

[Daveyboy20]

Drove from Merseyside to south west London on Friday night.  Averaged 38mpg! Thought I'd share as i was so impressed with it.  That was using cruise control bang on 70mph for most of the journey.  :)

[royoftherovers]

Exceptional economy indeed, as was the opportunity to use cruise for most of the journey.

I`ve always driven from Wirral to London having to use brakes most of the way due to heavy traffic on all of the arterial routes.

[dendonc]

Did you use M6? I went up that area end of Jan via M6 I came back down M62 to M1, M6 is most awful road in Europe going up & from what I saw on southbound that was even worse.

[royoftherovers]

1 hour ago, dendonc said:

Did you use M6? I went up that area end of Jan via M6 I came back down M62 to M1, M6 is most awful road in Europe going up & from what I saw on southbound that was even worse.

Try going around Paris or Madrid or Sevilla Den !

M62 is one of the  most busy Motorways in UK and in my experience far worse than M6 any day of the week.

M25 is no Sunday stroll either matey.     :):):)

 

How`s the aircon going?

[DaKa]

I feel that the economy would improve if there was a dedicated lane for Lexus drivers only.

I had a parking sign at my mother's house to tease my many brothers 'Lexus parking only', when I had a SC430 to compliment my LS430 they of course changed it to the plural 'Lexi parking only'  

[Daveyboy20]

Left at about 7pm so traffic was good the majority of the way.  Been cruising about London all weekend - not checked mpg again yet so I'll report back before we head back to the Wirral.  Going for another evening/night drive in the hope the traffic is favorable.  

 

Air con needs a re-gass so it's 4 windows down and moon roof open!

[Daveyboy20]

Just checked - driving around London yesterday and today has caused it to drop to 34mpg..still mightily impressive! I'll being the thread to its natural conclusion once we arrive at home later!

[dendonc]

M25's not far from me, I never go on it, but the M6 was appalling both ways  (very end of Jan), it was roadworks & low speed limits more or less all the way from appx Coventry up to not to far north of Stoke, they need to get a few legions of Romans in to build something better.

[Malc]

23 minutes ago, dendonc said:

they need to get a few legions of Romans in to build something better.

we'll be out of the EU by then and they won't get work permits I'll be bound  

Have u ever seen and driven on the horrendous Italian roads ?  our Motorways are like axmister carpet by comparison.

Malc

[Daveyboy20]

Well - return leg produced 37.5 mpg

I'm impressed. 🖒

[dendonc]

Did you get that fig from the car readout below the speedo & what was your average speed?

[Daveyboy20]

For reference: I have it in PWR mode at all times!

[steve2006]

Power mode generally only gives transmission up shifts higher up the rev range so when cruising at a constant speed should have little effect on fuel consumption if still accelerating gently.

Another factor is the non functioning AC which to be fair is probably negligible fuel wise on a 4ltr V8 compared to a 1ltr 3 pot engine but open windows and a moonroof would be detrimental to aerodynamics.

 

[royoftherovers]

1 hour ago, Daveyboy20 said:

Well - return leg produced 37.5 mpg

I'm impressed. 🖒

Probably 35mpg on the brim to brim method, but still very impressive indeed for such a journey.

Well done Davey.

[Daveyboy20]

27 minutes ago, steve2006 said:

Power mode generally only gives transmission up shifts higher up the rev range so when cruising at a constant speed should have little effect on fuel consumption if still accelerating gently.

Another factor is the non functioning AC which to be fair is probably negligible fuel wise on a 4ltr V8 compared to a 1ltr 3 pot engine but open windows and a moonroof would be detrimental to aerodynamics.

 

I didn't have the windows and moon roof down on the motorway! Drove late on when the heat dropped down.