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I only get just over 200 miles to a tank and no motorways up here

Juicy Steve

Cheers chaps, to be fair I am going to be giving it some massive beans so I'll probably be lucky to get 200.

Ive always assumed most cars reserves were about 30 miles. I've been driving without a fuel gauge on my beemer for the past 6 months, so having one is going to be a right novelty

richmc

WHOOOO Steve, keep the beans in the tin till you get used to the way the S handles, I know you have a BMW RWD but the S can bite, and hard!
And you don't know the cars previous, could be c**p tyres and s**t geo setup.

earl's_f20c

I reckon you'll be pleasantly suprised (if you manage to control the volume pedal that is). My first drive was from Edinburgh to Manchester after collecting, I averaged 32mpg, although it was the journey from hell on flooded potholed motorways so only managed about 65mph! That was on super btw

Only had mine 3 weeks and not stopped smiling yet, enjoy it!!

richmc

Love the Avatar Earls, I'm a member of that particular club.
And Steve when I did my first drive home, 360 miles I put 4 star in and got 30mpg (taking it easy), after learning wisdom from the forum I put super in and started getting 32ish thats non motorway. Motorway on super is around 35 (without too many moments). I generaly use Tesco when I can get it.

Juicy Steve

Cheers for the advice, I will probos ignore it like

ian_6301

If you need to ask (out of any motive other than pure curiousity), you just bought the wrong car.

Yes, you *can* get oodles of mpg (think I managed the right side of 350 miles on a tank by using hypermile techniques), but if you care about these things and are going to worry about driving a car that will routinely make 20mpg or less on a tank because you used the loud pedal, you came to the wrong place (IMHO).

The S2000 is a driver's car and capable of great savagery. This does not mean that you should do 90+, sideways on every residential 30 zone corner, far from it. It does however beg the question of why you bought the car.

If the reason is to enjoy the electrifying performance and awesome sound track, as I suspect it might be, you will not be dissappointed. Oh, and btw, chicks dig it (tm) - it's a proven fact.

If you bought it to be comfortable while cruising at a respectable 55mph on the motorway, with your hardtop on, aircon off and using hypermiling techniques to squeeze every last mile out of a tank, may I humble suggest looking at a Polo BlueMotion or a hybrid?

That said, whingeing about the cost of fuel, the poor mpg that you get and your best score on the "fuel guage russian roulette" game is an essential part of S2KUK / S2Ki(UK) life - welcome

Oh, and may I reccommend setting up a slush fund for buying stuff / funding repairs for the car? It's not silly expensive, but things seem to need doing more often than you may be used to...

Juicy Steve

Don't worry your little head ian, I am used to mpg in the 20s.

richmc

Anyone driving a beema without a working fuel gauge can't care too much about fuel costs. Try a Bently coupe, 7mpg!

James_N

my daily commute to work and back is only 2.5 miles each way, so fuel consumption around town isnt good.

On route through france though, i easily get 300 miles to a tank